My parents gave me a Crosman 760 pellet/BB gun when I was about 8 for Christmas. That was in the mid 60's. Hundreds of birds and thousands of pellets and BB's later it quit pumping and holding air. I think WD-40 may have had a part in it's demise as well. About 30 years ago I bought a new 760 thinking I'd take parts from it to get my old gun working again. When I got home and opened the box I could see there was no way parts from this new pellet gun were going to work in my old one. I shot the new one a few times, but the plastic and flimsy thing soon bored me, but my son shot it for years. Although the front sight has long been missing, it will still shoot. A few weeks ago I saw a picture of one of the wood and metal 760's on the net and got to thinking how cool it would be to fix it up for the grandson to shoot when he came for a few weeks this summer. I found a seal kit on fleebay of all places and figured I would give it a try. For less than 5 bucks and a few hours of my time, my old pellet gun was shooting like new.
When my grandson showed up the first thing out of his mouth was "look what my other grandpa gave me". Out of the car comes a new "Crosman 760" I was a bit deflated since I hadn't had the chance to show him the "new" one I had for him. We went out shooting them today. He was happy to have his own gun and for this grandpa to have one to shoot with him, so all is good.
It was a nostalgic to play with the old gun I learned to shoot with, but kind of sad to see what Crosman is calling a 760 today.