Two Avenge-X rifles, five months, and a part-time job I’m paying for...

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Two rifles in under five months.

First one went back for a barrel misaligned with the action, an off-center pic rail, and pellet probe o-rings getting shredded.

Replacement lasted 2½ months before it went full-on paperweight.

I expect to tinker after a couple years, not before I’ve even had a chance to really break it in. At this point, it’s less a PCP and more a hands-on course in “How Not to Build an Airgun.”

Full saga here: https://www.airgunnation.com/thread...-exhausted-all-attempts.1336881/#post-2011425
 
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Replacement lasted 2½ months before the fill port/check valve started leaking so bad it wouldn’t take air at all. Last night I stripped it down to bare bones following the only Tactical Carbine bottle teardown video I could find (in Hindi, with English subs). Pulled, cleaned, and inspected everything, replaced o-rings where I could, even polished the sealing surfaces — still wouldn’t take a fill. Without a schematic for this version and no proper o-ring kit on the market, it’s basically been me playing airgun surgeon in the dark.
 
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GreenReaper said:
Replacement lasted 2½ months before the fill port/check valve started leaking so bad it wouldn’t take air at all. Last night I stripped it down to bare bones following the only Tactical Carbine bottle teardown video I could find (in Hindi, with English subs). Pulled, cleaned, and inspected everything, replaced o-rings where I could, even polished the sealing surfaces — still wouldn’t take a fill. Without a schematic for this version and no proper o-ring kit on the market, it’s basically been me playing airgun surgeon in the dark.
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To each their own, but i consider that a regular failure wear part and they're only being made worse now. Check valves are the #1 leak in the almost 20 airguns I get to work on. The paintball tanks too. 20 years of that hobby and the foster is often the culprit if not a coroded reg.
 
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6gun said:
To each their own, but i consider that a regular failure wear part and they're only being made worse now. Check valves are the #1 leak in the almost 20 airguns I get to work on. The paintball tanks too. 20 years of that hobby and the foster is often the culprit if not a coroded reg.
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In just over 2 months - a wear part? I understand its a wear part...but that seems fast to me to have to strip a gun down completely every couple months
 
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Contact the vendor and make your case for a return and full refund/ credit . Then spend your money on another PCP with a better - to you - lineage. It is a difficult time for the Chinese manufacturers right now: not making excuses for them just stating a fact. You have gotten a bad dice roll as my Avenge-X is 2 years and has only needed a few O-rings replaced due to hardening - something that happens to O-rings over time. Good luck to ya.
 
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In just over 2 months - a wear part? I understand its a wear part...but that seems fast to me to have to strip a gun down completely every couple months
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The problem is how poorly they're made as an off the shelf Lego part and how bad plastics have been getting or how much ozone we have now. I can't get rubber or plastic worth a darn anymore. Example usa made fuel line on my hotrod and in a year and a half it rotted out and broke and siphoned out my tank in the street and made a mess 😂. I've gotten brand new air tanks that have had the check valve issue.

We are paying the price for cheap import goods. I did a check valve yesterday.

I wouldn't send it back but I'd demand they send me a replacement
 
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Thank you for your patience, as you can imagine I'm a bit frustrated at the moment because for me, having this gun down is an issue considering what I use it for. I guess I just expected a little more than back to back issues with a gun I would just now consider "broken in"...instead it's just broken lol. Being new to this I'm not very good with the names of the parts yet. If you feel it's the check valve, what would I need to do to repair this? I contacted Pyramyd, they were less than useless.
 
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Contact the vendor and make your case for a return and full refund/ credit . Then spend your money on another PCP with a better - to you - lineage. It is a difficult time for the Chinese manufacturers right now: not making excuses for them just stating a fact. You have gotten a bad dice roll as my Avenge-X is 2 years and has only needed a few O-rings replaced due to hardening - something that happens to O-rings over time. Good luck to ya.
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Funny you say that because I literally just spoke with Pyramyd. The first gun I had exchanged (same model, different problems) was outside of 30 days. This gun, wanted to do the same thing...however because it's outside of 30 days they refused to do anything. Believe me, if I thought for a second that they would actually give me my $ back...I would be ordering an FX pronto.
 
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Air Venturi Avenge-X​

Shipped & sold by Pyramyd AIR

1-year limited warranty

60 day money back guarantee

You are withing the time limit stated on the web site, given the time frame you have shared with us. I would ask to have your case escalated to a supervisor withing the call to Pyramyd Air and continue to press your case for a replacement, credit or refund. I feel your pain and hope you are able to work this out.
 
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After doing a ton of research and watching numerous videos I was excited to get a .22 caliber Avenge-X to compare to the other PCPs in the cabinet.

Unfortunately a problem with the regulator made it unadjustable and the rifle could not be tuned down to shoot anything less than 25 grain pellets. I returned it for full refund.
 
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