Daystate Alpha Wolf won’t shoot after cleaning.

Hello All. I am looking for any thoughts on the following problem. I recently bought my first PCP air rifle, it’s a Daystate Alpha Wolf HP in .30. I bought it used from Airguns of Arizona. After shooting about 125 rounds I removed the barrel shroud and noticed a lot of lead dust. I watched a few videos on disassembly and cleaning of the barrel and chronograph and went ahead and tackled the process. After I got it assembled I removed the air bottle and lowered my reg pressure to 0, then put bottle back on and raised to 110 bar. Then I refilled the bottle while on the gun up to 240 bar, and put it in the case so it was ready for the next outing. I took it out today to finally shoot it. I wanted to start at 110 bar to see what FPS it would shoot my JSB Exact 50.15 pellets to, planning a bumping up my reg pressure until I got them going at 850 FPS. I set it on factory setting 5115. My first shot sounded weak and chrono said just over 350 FPS. I shot again and sounded weak and FPS was 450. I bumped up reg pressure to 130 and the next shot sounded like the gun does when it’s dry fired at empty, didn’t even clear pellet from the barrel. The screen showed 130 bar regulated still. I took off the air bottle thinking there was some issue with it getting air. I bumped up the regulator while off, to max. I put the bottle back on and could hear air filling the secondary air chamber (not sure if that’s the proper term) and switched the factory setting to warp. The reg pressure on the screen reads 235. I when I tried shooting it only made the sound of the hammer but no air, and pellet didn’t budge. Any idea what on earth could be the problem? Any help is much appreciated👍
 
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I’m guessing you caused valve lock by having waaay too much reg pressure. At this point to empty the plenum you will probably have to detach the bottle and slowly loosen the pressure gauge just until you start to hear it leak. Leak the air out of the gun, turn the reg down and start over. Don’t crank the reg up with no air in the gun as you have no point of reference to avoid turning it up too much.
 
Just as a comparison I have my .30 cal at 150 bar and it will easily push 44.75 over 900 fps. If you only want 850 you will probably be good at 130-135 maybe ?

Edit. Just saw you are shooting 50 gr pellets. I would set it around 140 bar. Oh make sure you don’t have any pellets stuck in the barrel.
 
Just as a comparison I have my .30 cal at 150 bar and it will easily push 44.75 over 900 fps. If you only want 850 you will probably be good at 130-135 maybe ?

Edit. Just saw you are shooting 50 gr pellets. I would set it around 140 bar. Oh make sure you don’t have any pellets stuck in the barrel.
Just as a comparison I have my .30 cal at 150 bar and it will easily push 44.75 over 900 fps. If you only want 850 you will probably be good at 130-135 maybe ?

Edit. Just saw you are shooting 50 gr pellets. I would set it around 140 bar. Oh make sure you don’t have any pellets stuck in the barrel.

I’m guessing you caused valve lock by having waaay too much reg pressure. At this point to empty the plenum you will probably have to detach the bottle and slowly loosen the pressure gauge just until you start to hear it leak. Leak the air out of the gun, turn the reg down and start over. Don’t crank the reg up with no air in the gun as you have no point of reference to avoid turning it up too much.
I’ve never removed the pressure gauge before. Any tips on that? Is that the only way to release the air from the plenum?
 
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I’ve never removed the pressure gauge before. Any tips on that? Is that the only way to release the air from the plenum?
It’s the easiest way. All you need is an adjustable crescent wrench to loosen it. Just enough to make it start leaking. Super simple. Then you just snug it. Doesn’t need to be cranked in tight.
 
It’s the easiest way. All you need is an adjustable crescent wrench to loosen it. Just enough to make it start leaking. Super simple. Then you just snug it. Doesn’t need to be cranked in tight.
Ok. The gauge is round all the way around so no flat side to get cresint around. Any thoughts on disassembling down to the valve and then tapping the back of the valve like the hammer would? Might need a tap with a hammer though
 
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Remove the cover from the gauge
👍 I ended up tapping the end of the valve repeatedly till reg pressure was at zero (with bottle off of course). Backed the regulator all the way down and screwed on the bottle. Bumped up reg pressure to 130 and tried to shoot. Now it doesn’t sound like the hammer actuates when trigger is pulled. It just makes a high pitch electrical type sound 🤦‍♂️
 
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I got it figured out! I noticed some metal shavings around the firing pin/hammer. Took the whole thing apart. I believe it was pieces of the spring that goes between it and the valve. Got it all cleaned up and put back together. It’s shooting wishing 5FPS on factory setting👍👍

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