FX another month another panthera leak.

[coastal drifter]

Yeah unfortunately we don’t have that luxury here.
It’s classed as a firearm so can’t be shipped. It can’t even be exchanged for another one without about a 3 month wait on the paperwork.
If this was not the case it would have been back to the dealer when it arrived with leaks.
But thanks for your help anyway

sorry

 

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It's hard to see, so it easily gets missed.

Thanks! I’ll check that out as well.
I have the appropriate tool for removing the seat and am as careful as can be, but I’ve had to replace so many random o-rings on it since purchasing it, it could be anything.

My personal fav leak was when it decided to start around the C20 grub screw, but only by about 1 bar a day so it wasn’t audible or even visible under the butt plate took me a while to find that one

 

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Well after chatting with Johan at FX who has been absolutely superb, they kindly sent me a “dynamic” repair kit for the Panthera (o-rings, valve seat and valve pin) and fitting the seat and pin seems to have resolved it (will check again tomorrow)

Both the seat and the pin were much tighter on fitting than the old ones were, stupidly I didn’t measure / photograph them, but I can note

1- the valve seat was different from the existing one, the indexing “nubbin” on the back was much more pronounced, but I’m really not sure it actually indexes against anything in the Panthera block.

2- looked like new material on the valve gasket, tan in colour and seemed marginally larger than the old one