Baby Cricket Now Leaking
After switching back to shooting the standard .22 Cricket (after just fixing a leak in the valve stem seal) and leaving my .177 Compact Cricket on the wall for a few months now the CC has developed a slow leak. Too funny. I wonder where the leak will be? 🙄
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That’s nice, enjoy and sent us some kill pics will ya ! :5:
~ Greg
My annual Prairie Dog shoot. 46 years straight to the same place. Can’t wait to go.
Wyoming’s the state where men are men and sheep are nervous ……
Wyoming ? ,,,,,, ,,,,, , Zonk are you going on a vacation ? :biggrinn:
~ GKU
I got mine from John, fits perfect. So far over a year and a half no leaks. DAMN I shouldn’t have said that. It’ll probably be dry when I get back from Wyoming…. 🙁
Not hard to change out in any case.
~ GKU
Easy to do if you have the gauge tool (or tool to its effect). Stuck otherwise.
Yes I tried all sort of other suggested methods Greg to unscrew it but did not work. May be depends on how tight the gauge was tightened initially.
I see, have you tried using a piece of bicycle tire tube ?
Don’t remove the gauge end from the AT yet.
Place the piece of rubber tube on a table to push down on it with the gauge end and turn the AT.
Also it’s not very hard to make a Cricket gauge socket, here is my post if you haven’t seen it already.
http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/message/1391484280/
But I’d check with Ernest I think he might have some.
Or try and contact John he maybe still making them for sale.
viewtopic.php?f=33&t=30282&p=305443&hilit=cricket+gauge+socket#p305443
Lastly at Joe’s Tools http://www.culayer.com/Joes_tools.htm
scroll down to the bottom
~ GKU
Not hard to change out in any case.
~ GKU
Easy to do if you have the gauge tool (or tool to its effect). Stuck otherwise.
Yes I tried all sort of other suggested methods Greg to unscrew it but did not work. May be depends on how tight the gauge was tightened initially.
Yes #11 is in a strange position and does not set fit perfectly so I can imagine a small shift from the center causing deformation. But mine was hard (no pun intended) and not rubbery anymore. I would think something like temperature may have caused that but cant think of what may cause a wild temperature change.
Not hard to change out in any case.
~ GKU
Yes, you remembered 2mm X 9.5mm Viton A75 it is, a bit smaller then the OEM to comp for the hardest I guess.
~ GKU
I was thinking a Viton as well. I have a big container of metric ones but I doubt the correct size. Easy to change other than losing the air. Thanks for compressors. 😉
Not hard to change out in any case.
~ GKU
IIRC Ernest mention using A75 instead but I replaced mines with 70s they last long enough.
Not hard to change out in any case.
~ GKU
Mine was exactly the same as yours and I suspect they (#11) all get that way somewhat quickly the way they are positioned and compressed (squared). I wonder if a different type oring might be better in that particular position. I wonder what Earnest’s thoughts are.
#8 looks slightly deformed too so I am replacing it as well while I am in there.
It’s got gas! :8:
Glad it worked form you!
Same thing here the #11 did not even feel like rubber. It was so beaten and flattened that it was practically a plastic that broke in my hand when I put the least amount of pressure on it. Not sure how it transformed that way. hard to think that Kalibrgun would try to save 1 cent on 1500 dollar gun so I think something unexpected may have caused it.
Hey SECoda,
That fix was to easy for ya. 😆
Ya, I change that gauge O-ring along with the rest on both of my Crickets the last time I degassed.
I think it’s the O-ring that is exposed the most to the outside elements that makes it get so dry out quickly.
Good to hear you got your baby up and shooting !
~ GKU
I have had my Crickets apart dozens of times but never changed the #11 oring. It is especially deformed in the design when the gauge is tightened and subject to early failure IMO (it was very brittle under that compression). It is very easy to change however. I wonder how many have had to change #11 (gauge oring) as well. My Compact Cricket is only about a year old. The other orings I looked at seemed in pretty good shape – even the second one I changed.
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Don’t remove the gauge end from the AT yet.
Place the piece of rubber tube on a table to push down on it with the gauge end and turn the AT.
Also it’s not very hard to make a Cricket gauge socket, here is my post if you haven’t seen it already.
http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/message/1391484280/
But I’d check with Ernest I think he might have some.
Or try and contact John he maybe still making them for sale.
viewtopic.php?f=33&t=30282&p=305443&hilit=cricket+gauge+socket#p305443
Lastly at Joe’s Tools http://www.culayer.com/Joes_tools.htm
scroll down to the bottom
~ GKU
Could not find a bicycle tire tube so used another rubbery surface with no luck.
As I said earlier I already got the tool from John and it works perfect! Thanks for the advice and links though