R5 dangerous failure
R5 probably has a construction defect that can be seriously dangerous. Ed, where is the armored endurance you were talking about? where is the instruction with which force to tighten the bolt? it looks like a nasty joke made to us, faithful fans of your brand!
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Do you think SniperQty can help us, EDgunners?
Will be a recall because of this? I asked the same question over on Airgunnation marketing web site and it got me banned oh no again!
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Sounds serious, probably easily fixed by some upgrade/minor modification. It was Ed who advertised how easy these new guns are to work on. That one did not last long. That owner doessound technically apt to me so it is not a matter of dummy owner.
Wait a minute did he screw it too much or too long or not good enough. Sorry for my English
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Still I would say good designs are smart designs, preventing users to mess up.
We could ask sniperqty for root case analysis!
Eds manners and handling of technical complains is …still the same. I think it is a Russian thing. Need a bit of more finesse
I suggest they have a good fist fight first followed by a bottle of vodka each with some pickles, get drunk then become good friends! And perhaps start again
over-tightening, block deformation.
poor tightening, damage to the rail after the shot. it’s not a bbgun toy. it’s over 110 joules next to your face.
Weak tightening only causes leaking air at the probe?
What other damage will there be?
Regards, Robert.
Weak tightening causes damage and too tight tightening also. So what is the force to tighten this screw? simple answer …
Seems like he forgot to tighten it at all ?
If after some shooting I would see if there is a opening gap at the joint in question.
If there isn’t any gap I would think it’s tight enough.
I’d also use a bit of Blue Loctite on the threads on that hex bolt to help with the vibration with the hammer slap.
If this failure occurs is there a chance of an explosion ?
I don’t believe so …….
– Greg
which force to tighten it? I’m not interested in customer stories, only technical matters.
In that case the point was that the customer didn’t tight it enough after “updating”.
I will destroy it if I tighten the screw too much?
which force to tighten it? I’m not interested in customer stories, only technical matters.
Use google translator to read my comments to that video. In short — the user made some “updates” to the gun and after that had a problem. He offered me to change R5 to R5M, when it will be ready. At that moment he had nothing against the construction “defect” of the gun 🙂 I refused since he damaged the gun. He was instulted my refusing and start making this video 🙂
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That’s the real problem.
Suppose the gun is dangerous and could blew somebody’s eyes off :angrymob:
Instead of looking into the problem as usually the standard approach is denying the problem from the start go and if the gun blows up then they will say it’s because of the bad quality of the air in your region.
Nothing new there… just be careful before a “limited edition and unexpected deadly blow” into the face.