valve nightmare
tried everything that I could think of and can’t get the stock valve off? Any ideas
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did you fit the spring n hammer also ?
Does the trigger hold ok ?
All set 😀 turns out the tophat was just a c.h. too wide to pass into the breech without getting jammed up! I busted out the dremel and took the chuck off and the top hat threaded on like one turn, just enough to hold and I spun it over some 600 sand paper and bam I’m blowin holes through 2/4’s at thirty yards plus. I love u guys 😀
My bad i think. 😳
I probly made the tophat a little over size 😥
sorry about that.
If the wet n dry dont do the trick i’ll make another with a breach to suit.
Sorry for the mess about Kejano.
Sean.
So what exactly did you remove the valve for? I doubt it broke just by unscrewing it from the bottle unless you crushed the housing.
I got a new valve to replace the old one.
No one has mentioned it yet but PLEASE PLEASE make sure there is NO air pressure in the tank.
Yeah so I used cygs idea dismantled the valve and hung it over the burner of my stove rotating it and stuck a 3/8 bolt in the hole whacked it with a hammer and bammo she broke free, I was pumped !! But now I have a new problem, my tophat is getting jammed in the breech and the gun doesn’t fire? I filled to 2800 ???
Thanks to all who replied u guys are great, its like calling 911 for your talon when u post a problem! Thanks again
did you loosen the grub screws on the tophat when working on the valve?
if the grub screws in the th are not tightened flush, they will catch/bind/stick in the breech face.
So what exactly did you remove the valve for? I doubt it broke just by unscrewing it from the bottle unless you crushed the housing.
Adam thats gonna be for my next swap or mod, love my dremel,
Yeah so I used cygs idea dismantled the valve and hung it over the burner of my stove rotating it and stuck a 3/8 bolt in the hole whacked it with a hammer and bammo she broke free, I was pumped !! But now I have a new problem, my tophat is getting jammed in the breech and the gun doesn’t fire? I filled to 2800 ???
Thanks to all who replied u guys are great, its like calling 911 for your talon when u post a problem! Thanks again
I open up a magazine and place tank inside and wrap it. Place at the very bottom of vise and clamp firmly.
I have a collar made from an old airsource bottle and opened it up a bit with a dremel until it slipped over the valve neck. I had drilled a hole in it the corresponds with the hole in the tank valve and screwed in a bolt to secure it. I then grab the collar with a monkey wrench and spun off the valve.
No damage to the valve easy as pie.
I later found out that they carry both adjustable and single size ones that can be ordered. In Europe they are called several different things. Including pin spanners. But then again, in some parts, just about any wrench in the UK can be called a spanner. Or at least it seems that way. In the U.S. we don’t call wrenches spanners. Unless it is the pin spanner. It looks like a half moon with a protrusion sticking inward at the end of the arch. Micro meters come with a miniature version for calibrating them.
Mike
Ive never even heard of a spin spanner. What about a strap wrench? Lots of grip and wont mar things up.
I put the bottle in a vice (with soft jaws) and used mole-grips directly on the collar. It came off very easily, which was a suprise having read earlier stories of great difficulties.
I wrapped the bottle in thick 9-10 ounce leather and placed it in the shop vice, and used 7=8 ounce leather on the collar with a “BIG” Set of Channel Lock Pliers. A pin spanner would have been a better choice! Couldn’t find one! I went to Sears to try and buy one and they had no idea what a pin spanner was. Even when I showed them a pic. of one. 🙁
Mike
try heating the threads up with a hair drier or some hot water 😀
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yeah I put the pair in got like 7 or 8 shots I can’t beleive the power that your valve puts out nice job, and the blacking was sweet! Yeah trigger holds good it does shake when I disengage the safety I’m gonna make some kind of knob for it.