Just got my Cricket and need o-ring size for the fill-probe.
I’m happy to say that I just received my new Cricket and will post pics once I have had time to shoot it. At this time the fill probe leaks anytime I fill air and need the size of the o-ring for the fill probe. I tried my local hardware for o-rings but they are too thick and don’t have a matching ID measurement.
Any help would be appreciated as it is frustrating having this in my hand and not being able to fill and shoot it. This adds to my frustration of wating for a breech replacement for my just received R3 .22. At this time, I can’t shoot anything.
Thanks
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I think there are a few people who have both the cricket and the matador. no comparison yet…..?
You shot your mag? 😯
I would have tried a paper target or something else to shoot first.
HOW MANY MAGS COME WITH A CRICKET? 😆
I want to see how the Cricket does against the Matador!
Fixed my cricket fill probe issue. Thanks to twohsieh, I needed to wrap the fill probe thread 3 times with teflon tape.
Anyways, after mounting my hawke tactical scope, I shot a mag and this thing is scary accurate. The auto-indexing magazine is also a great relief and doesn’t appear to cause any POI shift. Pretty nice.
Now waiting for my edgun breech. to make life complete.
I did put teflon tape on my foster adapter to the fill probe. I did manage to order some o-rings that match the small fill probe. The O-rings were not readily available in any local store due to their small size:
ID: 3.5mm x CS: 1.5mm
Last week was a bad karma week for me because with both new bullpups having issues, my shoebox decided to breakdown on me and had to send it in to be fixed and to upgrade to a drive belt setup. I decided to stop everything I was doing and let my karma air-out the bad mojo.
For the cricket, I’m still having a small leak from the fill port and am working to get the filling air issue fixed.
Once I have both bullpups up an running, I plan to do a side by side performance test and will post the video.
Guanshee,
Are you connecting the fill probe to a foster fitting? If that is the case, make sure the leak is not from there rather than the orings… Use alot of teflon tape.
I just saw, on yellow classifieds, where a new Cricket bullpump just sold here in States, by James Tibbett. New unfired condition for $2700.00. Didn’t last very long!
Guanshee, if you are in the US, hardware stores carry SAE sized O rings and you need metric. If you can find a place that has metric O rings, you might try finding a 5 mm ID X 1.5 mm CS for the fill probe and a 3mm ID X 1.0 mm CS for the breech probe O ring.
Measure the OD of the Cricket’s fill probe and let me know what size it is. Post a pic of the Cricket’s and Matador’s fill probes side by side if possible. The BSA Lone Star’s fill probe and the Matador’s fill probe have the same OD and use a 5 mm ID X 1.5 mm cross section O ring.
If the fill probe on the Cricket is larger diameter OD, I might have some O rings that will fit. I have a large selection of metric o rings.
You are waiting for a breech for the Edgun? If you mean that you need some breech probe O rings, I have some extra breech probe and fill probe O rings that I can send you.
Email or PM me your address and I will try to get them out in the mail Tuesday.
Or, you could just send the Cricket to me and I will fix the fill probe O rings, test shoot the Cricket (A LOT!) and send it back to you, sooner or later! 😆
sometimes if it weren’t for bad luck we would have no luck at all. Sorry to hear both guns down. Why the breech replacement on R3? Can you go through Tony for this or does have to come from Russia.
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The cricket comes with (2) 14 pellet mags that are self-indexing. So far at 30 yards I’m stacking the pellets. It sounds and feels as good as the Edgun but this one is 2 inches shorter than the Matador and the magazine works great.
Accuracy is amazing with it so far. I’ll post targets once the rain and wind stops.