How Do I Align the Air Gauge, so it is straight
The gauge on my .22 Cricket Standard is crooked. This is the Black faced gauge with numbers. It drives me nuts everytime I look at the gun and the valve is not straight up and down. I know it is picky, but,………I would like for the Kalibir emblem to be at the bottom,and the fill port to be on the side. Can anyone help?
Thank you, Terry
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Thanks everyone. I do have a gauge wrench. I will empty air tube and adjust.
Terry
Haggard
I was remiss in my comments. Turning the assy to 9’0 and 3’0 put my colored gauge very close to 6:00 but maybe 5:30 and I wrongly assumed this would work out for others. My memory was flawed in that Ernest was saying the fill port position was off a lot of times and I thought a gauge was required to remedy but he worked me thru it. 😳
To have the fill hole at 9 and 3 Oclock and gauge emblem at 6 Oclock:
1: Bleed AT, insert fill probe then rotate to aligned fill holes. if the fill probe bottom out before aligned turn CCW.
2: Need G/wrench for this step. Rotate gauge CW till emblem @ 6, if gauge bottom out before it aligned turn CCW to aligned, don’t worry it take 4 turns before the oring start to leak/bleed.
He wants his fill port holes to be in a certain position- horizontal I’m guessing, and he also wants his gauge face to be vertical..
if he just rotated the fill assy by sticking something in the fill port and turning.. He could only have either the gauge OR the fill ports in the position he wants? Right? I think he would first need to rotate/tighten the gauge in the fill assy so that its perpendicular to the fill holes so he can get everything to ‘line’ up how he wants..
I guess I would empty tube, stick something into the fill port and twist that til its level, then use the gauge puller and rotate that until its correct.
Nope just what I said turn it to where you want it and refill. I did this with Ernest Rowe directing me over the phone back in June when I first got my Compact. This I did upon re-assembly after the very small screw inside the fill port came loose in the 1st week of having it and wouldn’t fill.
Ernest said the gauge alignment was one of his pet peeves of the factory assembly.
Heckler,
He wants his fill port holes to be in a certain position- horizontal I’m guessing, and he also wants his gauge face to be vertical..
if he just rotated the fill assy by sticking something in the fill port and turning.. He could only have either the gauge OR the fill ports in the position he wants? Right? I think he would first need to rotate/tighten the gauge in the fill assy so that its perpendicular to the fill holes so he can get everything to ‘line’ up how he wants..
I guess I would empty tube, stick something into the fill port and twist that til its level, then use the gauge puller and rotate that until its correct.
You don’t need a gauge socket to do this. You do need to empty the air tube completely and DON”T shoot it down to empty or fire on it empty as it can break things. Shoot it until you’re off reg and bleed the rest with the bleed screw but be careful not to strip the head of the screw.
All you have to do is put an Allen wrench in the fill port and turn it to where you want it after the tube is empty. Then refill.
Terry, turn it with a Cricket gauge socket. Easy to make, you can also purchase one from Ernest. Do a search here, theirs a nice tutorial posted by a member on making the socket.
Picky Regards
LarryW 🙄
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I guess you can call it that lol