Western Airguns Western Mordax Venom, first impressions, and eventual ongoing review.
- By AlanMcD
- PCP Airguns
- 43 Replies
Nice review and I'm glad you like it, but I highly doubt your mag advancement issue has anything to do with the slight over fill of the gun . . . and what a beautiful spot!
I don't have a Mordax, but I do have a Sidewinder and Huben K1 (both in .22) and both had mag advancement issues for different reasons. The Sidewinder was an early mechanical failure of the mechanism after about 1000 shots, and it took a new part that AoA sent me to fix it (the Huben was a spring that went weak after over 15K shots).
The mag advancement mechanism only sees regulated pressure, and a slight overfill would not lead to any unusual spike in the pressure that it sees. I think you need to look elsewhere for the cause. Don't forget that the ~11 bar you overfilled is well within the pressure swings the gun could see from temperature changes, and it would have been designed to accommodate that . . .
When my Sidewinder went bad, it started failing to advance on occasion, and slowly got worse. I fgured it might be a lube issue, so I blew out all the lube I could with compressed air, lubed it with a light silicone oil and blew all that out to flush it, and then with Krytox oil. It worked fine then for a few mags but then went back to failing to advance. I reached out to AoA and they walked me through a few things that did not change anything then recommended the part swap. That cured it, and it is still good two years later (although it does not get shot as much as the Huben).
Good luck with it, but I'd reach out to AoA, or wherever you bought it . . . .
I don't have a Mordax, but I do have a Sidewinder and Huben K1 (both in .22) and both had mag advancement issues for different reasons. The Sidewinder was an early mechanical failure of the mechanism after about 1000 shots, and it took a new part that AoA sent me to fix it (the Huben was a spring that went weak after over 15K shots).
The mag advancement mechanism only sees regulated pressure, and a slight overfill would not lead to any unusual spike in the pressure that it sees. I think you need to look elsewhere for the cause. Don't forget that the ~11 bar you overfilled is well within the pressure swings the gun could see from temperature changes, and it would have been designed to accommodate that . . .
When my Sidewinder went bad, it started failing to advance on occasion, and slowly got worse. I fgured it might be a lube issue, so I blew out all the lube I could with compressed air, lubed it with a light silicone oil and blew all that out to flush it, and then with Krytox oil. It worked fine then for a few mags but then went back to failing to advance. I reached out to AoA and they walked me through a few things that did not change anything then recommended the part swap. That cured it, and it is still good two years later (although it does not get shot as much as the Huben).
Good luck with it, but I'd reach out to AoA, or wherever you bought it . . . .
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