Edgun airtube question
I received my new edgun today. All looks good except the air tube is touching the barrel shroud. The cap with the knurling on the airtube is actually rubbing the finish of the shroud when it is unscrewed. is this normal? do I have anything to worry about? I see in some pics posted of Edguns that this might be common ?
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Aha, I see, yes, sometimes it can happen, then the rail takes a part of force of strength of the barrel.
Hi Eduard,
The 0.5 degree is great for the 100 meter match shooting!
I use a rather old scope, those did not have the wide moa range to adjust.
But that is not what the picture is showing.
My picatinny rail was slightly bend, the level is a straight line.
After I loosend the rail at one side, I heard a snap.
The tension got out of the rail.
After that the level was toughing the rail the whole lenght and the barrel came up again.
The rail was forcing the barrel down.
Regards, Robert
The rail was straight agian and the barrel was not touching the tube anymore.
Regards, Robert
The rail has in incline 0.5 degrees. That is made to let your scope more space for regulation.
Hi Wisper,
Mine had the same.
I saw that there was some tension in the pictinyrail.
I losend one side and I heard a snap.
The rail was straight agian and the barrel was not touching the tube anymore.
Regards, Robert
Well,
It isnt an inlet issue, it does it with the stock on or off. I’m not going to worry about it to much since Ed says it is normal. When I get the nerve to open the gun up, I will poke around and check washers, etc. Right now I have to much stuff to shoot and wont be to ” Anal” about it.
As mentioned, I would check the fit and inlet of the stock first.
It may be another problem though; is there a noticeable gap between the breech block and the air tube?
My .25 long R3 was assembled with a breech crush washer that was .030″ too thick. This elevated the breech and back of the barrel causing the barrel to run “downhill” and out by the muzzle the shroud was rubbing on the knurled cover over the gauge. I also had issues with the bolt being very difficult to close and short bolt probe o-ring life because the breech block was sitting too high and things were a little out of alignment.
I lapped .025″ or so off the sealing washer and it fixed the problem with the shroud touching the knurls and also fixed the bolt issues. If the breech block on your gun is pulled down tight against the top of the air tube without any gaps it’s probably a stock inlet issue.
Hey oldgoat could you take a pic of what that looks like on your gun…I’m having a hard time picturing that in my mind
It doesn’t hurt anything. If you are “anal” about the looks of your new Matador; you can loosen the trigger guard screw up a lot, push the barrel up and insert 1 on more thin plastic shims between the top of the air tube and the inside bottom of the front scope rail mount.
I have tried shooting the gun both ways, I didn’t find an accuracy increase using the plastic shims but, the gun looks better.
Normal due to the reservoir that is free according to the upper block. To avoid it you can “play” with the stock fixing screw.
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OK, you just made me go thru the bullshit that the “new and improved” Photobucket site makes me go thru just to find my pics!
I REALLY HATE the new Photobucket site! I was happy with the way it was. Harder is not better: unless it is in bed!
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I see that some more Matadors have made it to Tony. I am not so patently waiting for my 30 cal Matador to come in!
It seems like all I have done, for the last 4 years, is wait for a new Matador to come in!
I REALLY hate waiting for Matadors!