Crown Contimuum MK IIs\' at 3000 FPS

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Regarding the P and S markings on you barrel, they may be Swedish but they stand for "Pellet" and "Slug". Visually you can see that the S hole will allow more air flow as it is a larger hole. It is bifurcated with the bridge of material to keep slugs from 'falling through' when chambering them.

Whichever side is down when installed is the active port. Make sure you carefully engage the notch on the barrel's end with the pin in the action when re-assembling.

Note that using the 'big hole' (S) is not always the best depending on your application. If you are shooting mostly or all pellets and not attempting to max-max out the power the gun puts out (in other words, you prefer accuracy and high shot counts), install the barrel with the 'P'ellet hole facing down. Don't bother with the 'S'lug port until you learn and understand much more about tuning your new gun.

(Pro Tip: When re-installing the barrel in an FX gun, do so with a magazine in the breech. With some FX guns if you push the barrel all the way into the action, it can make inserting a magazine difficult or impossible, and you have to loosen things up again and pull the barrel slightly forward.)


 
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Thanks Scotty1. Watt a Man, you have my volt. A response of ample insight surrounded, sans resistance, by knowledge and encased in a mnemonic flow of current posts. Thanks for shedding light on my question.

Yes, looks like an O ring in the bottom of the AV female connection after the slip coupling that holds the end plug is removed from the high pressure portion on the AV fill hose. I considered your suggestion however age related telomere degradation fosters a paraOELOKnoia that engenders don't touch it you'll break it syndrome.

I'll pull the O ring spacer washer off the FX slip coupling and see if I get an air tight seal between the AV high pressure line and the FX slip connector/plug fixture.

If I might be of some further inquisition, might you confirm or deny my, P/S, shroud vent hole supposition. A 'P' up disposition. Beered-up I can still do that, albeit slowly. Thanks cbow




 
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Thanks Scotty1 You've answered before asked or I'm slow to respond. Air pressure comes from under the barrel. The bridge in the larger S hole prevents slugs, that can use more air, from falling thru a larger opening. For the time being I'll use the P down orientation. I saw the bridge in the larger hole and wondered about its function. The mag installed when making a barrel change ( orientation/change out) is a useful caveat that the FX owners manual doesn't mention. A lose mag may allow the tiny spacer O ring on the clear face of the mag to fall out. There is a YouTube vid where a person says after shooting a cleaning round thru his airgun he found on his bench the small O ring, mystery solved. He was going to glue it back in. You must be a fully trained factory rep!

My short term memory is trashed so I need to do something stressful to commit things to long term memory. Organizing typing and editing a response for instance. To bad FX or the retailer didn't pass this info on to customers.

How many other threads have you mentioned this info to? Thanks cbow
 
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Greetings all. Two thinks of passing interest came to my attention today. First a Buteo at about 250-300 yds. and a Chicken of the Trees at 25 to 30 yds. Stop reading here if you are an ASPCA ist (of Abashedly Salient Pander & Candid Acerbic). One such, might find this post punishing.

The hawk could no doubt see me blink and the squirrel was frozen in its position so, in its pea brain, became invisible. I took my laser Crown MKII in .22 cal. and harvested the fox squirrel at about 25 yds. The pellet hit hard enough to dislodge the tree rat from its plain sight hide. Went to retrieve the quarry and much to my chagrin, found my shot placement was... let's say effective but not lethal. Hip spine penetration rendered the invasive species incapacitated but alive and its front half was still somewhat mobile.

Ever seen the Clint Eastwood movie High Plains Drifter? Two spurious characters, the leader, a father raper and his cohort, a mother raper, took a corrupt businessman to a Calf. gravel pit. The father raper shot him and the mother raper stabbed him in the throat. The mother raper exclaims " Dawg he had a lot of blood left in him".

Well this partially mobile Rodentia had a lot of blood left in him and the hawk having watched, thru 30X vision, the entire video, probably critiqued my shot placement. So in a pique of telomere deficient thought I conjured, 'Buteo Lunch". Took said tree rat to an open area in my field in clear view of the imposing Raptor. The hawk saw all of this scenario unfold. I mean he could tell if my boot laces were tied with a bow knot, a square knot or a granny knot.

After about 30 min. I went to check on the afore mentioned, modestly mobile, invasive species. Looked around and there it was, GONE.

The second think, which, after this play on words, brings me to this question, why wouldn't my laser accurate Crown load another pellet? Pulled the cocking lever back, pushed it forward and hit a dead stop before locking into fire position. Like the mag was empty. Still had 5 projectiles in the mag. but the black, empty, plastic lug in the mag was showing in the clear mag. face window. What the fax was wrong? Refilled the mag. and now all seems right with my pin point accurate projectile launching machine. Thanks cbow




 
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PaP, PaP, or PP. Lock tight on hammer spring knob screw. Spell cjeck?

I used the AGN search function. Lots of threads on barrel cleaning. Just wondering if it makes a difference if I Push a Patch, or Pull a Patch when cleaning the barrel on my Crown? Or perhaps it's Personnel Preference. I have a .17 cal. aluminum cleaning rod to Push a Patch and 50# fishing line to Pull a Patch. Done both. Just wondering what unforeseen crisis might lurk in the P P use-what- you-have paradigm. And further down a twisty hole, If there isn't powder residue why use any solvent, then shoot the gun to 'season' the barrel after cleaning with some liquid solution?

Did AGN and Yew Toob search on hammer spring adjustment. Was able to identify at least 3 methods. 1. Measure hammer screw with mic to set the desired screw length, 2. Adjust the screw, shoot the gun to determine performance, repeat for each screw length adjustment to determine a change in FPS (sweet spot). 3. TedsHoldover (I think) YooTood, adjust screw till you have just a little bit of hammer travel when the dial is on max hammer spring. (the bit of travel keeps the cam from locking up with the screw) Went with Ted, quick and easy, with problems that are not dreamed in my Crownish philosophy. 

Always adjust the hammer spring tension knob (new style knob) in a CCW direction. After hammer screw adjustment is set for small play when dial is set to max ( hammer knob white dot that represents 24 or minus 1), I find that the screw that holds the knob in place and adjusts the tension on the knob, backs off when I adjust the knob CCW... DUH...ER...WTF...perhaps some primary color of Lock Tight is called for. Would one put the color cordinated Lock Tight in the threaded boss hole or on the screw threads?

Sperll cexx feature has me flewmixed. Might sonwom please explsne how to axsexs the '4 dumbys versuon.

Thanks cbow
 
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Pushed a patch, 9 actually, no cleaning fluids, thru the short barrel on my Crown, last patch came out clean. OELOC (Operator Error Lack Of Concentration) lost a patch between the moderator lug and the barrel end. removed the shroud, got the errant patch. The single disk between the outside of the barrel and the inside of the shroud has a spot on the barrel beyond which it is very reluctant to pass thereby leaving the disk on the barrel rather than inside the shroud. There isn't a clear indication of exactly where on the barrel the disk should preferably reside. Put some tape behind the disk when it was positioned at the barrels 'reluctant to pass spot'. That puts the disk forward of the middle of the barrel. Might there be an optimal position on the barrel for the disk to inhabit?

Thanks cbow
 
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Shot a few rounds after adjusting the hammer spring tension on my Crown. Reg. set at 135 bar . Before adjustment, 18.1 gr. pellets at 920 avg. fps with hammer spring dial at 23. Now 18.1 gr. pellets go 915 fps with hammer dial at 13. Noticeable improvement in shot groups at 25, 50 and 70 yds.

23 gr slugs at 820 avg. fps before adjustment. Now 820 fps, same reg and hammer spring dial as pellets. Shot groups about the same.

Which makes me wonder why I bought 400 more 22 +/- gr. slugs for short range shooting. Should have got more pellets under 20 gr.

I put my carbon wrap air cylinder in the freezer for about 5 hours then wrap it in a couple blankets, before taking it to town to get filled. The dive shop only does hot fills. The tank wasn't empty (about 200 bar) so not sure if I'm risking life and lymph nodes, wasting time and cold, or actually getting a couple more 250 bar gun fills per 310 bar air tank fill.

Where is Sperll cheque? I see red underdots but no spallung ikom.

Thanks cbow
 
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Thanks 18.13. I've seen that one and it's a good video, once you wade thru the sales pitch up front. The last 30 min. are in very informative. Have you seen the person in the background messing with a dog? Watched the last section several times if you count backing up and reviewing. There is a guy from FX that does complete take downs and reassembly. Also a guy from the south who has binders full of his test stats on tuning and pellet performance. And Matt Dubber... Plus lots of other shorter videos about specific repairs/upgrades. I would like to find a reference book with 8X10 color glossy photos with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was. But right now I'm on the group W bench because I questioned if the retailer who sold me the airgun had actually done a complete checkout of airgun. So I spoke with a rep and started to explain that the front power adjust knob won't move off the high setting...and he stopped me right there and said Kid, was the airgun cocked when you turned the knob? I said no. And he said nobody changes that knob anyway so it's no big deal. I said it's brand new and all of its parts should... and he stopped me right there and said Kid have you ever shot the gun? I said no 'cause I wasn't sure if something was wrong inside...And he said Kid shoot the airgun and we'll get in touch with you later. So I'm sittin here on the bench, playing with my pencil. The gun shoots, but at 200 fps slower than their checkout sheet says it shot for them with the same weight pellet. Thanks cbow
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like your Arrlo G reference brought back memories
 
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