Raptor On Order….
I am on the waiting list for the next shipment of Raptors (Omega is identical but different label). After much research I was surprised by the numbers that have been purchased or ordered since early last year (near 50). 😯 In the last few days I have pinged a few folks that have anywhere from 80-120 hours on them and they have been performing admirably. The main issues been shipping or weather (freezing in the warehouse before antifreeze was added) related on several. I will probably run it for a month or so before I consider selling the original Shoebox I have. The Shoebox has performed very well for about 2.5 years and I only replaced the orings once. 😉
The actual speed folks are reporting has been more like 3-4x an F8 but not near a small Bauer or Airtex where the models are near 10x faster. About 45 minutes to top off a 88 cu ft tank from 3000 to 4500 for the Raptor and 25 minutes for my 44 cu ft SCBA tanks which take about 3 hours with the original Shoebox. I also researched used Bauer’s and Airtex (also Chinese) but they start around the $2500 mark if available and most I found were pretty heavily used for paintball and had other issues.
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There is some run time on some of these now but it was a bit tough to locate the folks. The guy who won the Extreme 75Y Benchrest competition I think from Mexico has an airgun shop and fills his customers tanks with his Raptor and has a lot of time on it and says it has run flawlessly among others. Álvaro is a real nice guy.
It’ll be nice to have some first hand performance info on these. May your wait be short.
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Maybe you already said, but: where are you ordering it from? AOA? Or somewhere else? I’ve got my scope situation taken care of so my next savings envelope has “hpa supply” written on it. I’m just hoping someone else starts selling it at a more reasonable price.
The actual speed folks are reporting has been more like 3-4x an F8 but not near a small Bauer or Airtex where the models are near 10x faster. About 45 minutes to top off a 88 cu ft tank from 3000 to 4500 for the Raptor and 25 minutes for my 44 cu ft SCBA tanks which take about 3 hours with the original Shoebox. I also researched used Bauer’s and Airtex (also Chinese) but they start around the $2500 mark if available and most I found were pretty heavily used for paintball and had other issues.