FX Crown Caliber Change

[jawshunting]

I have a newer model FX Crown Continuum in .25 caliber. I want to buy the 30 caliber barrel kit and probe with magazine. What tuning or adjustments will I have to make besides changing the barrel and 30 caliber probe. Is it a pain in the rear end? Anyone help is appreciated. 

 

[Glem.Chally]

Probably raise the reg a bit and give it some more hammer preload. Not much to it and takes a couple minutes.

 

[Mikelo123]

Not hard at all!

Simply loosen the set screws on the block (2 on each side) and loosen the set screw on the top rail and the barrel slides out.

The probe is simple as well, just pull the cocking lever back and remove the retaining screw and the old probe comes right out and pop the new one in.

As far as setting that depends on what your settings are now but for .30 shooting 44 grain pellets 840-850 FPS is a solid starting point. I would set the regulator about 145 and see what kind of velocity you get. If that is a big jump from where your reg is now might need to remove the stock and tighten the hammer spring a bit so you can balance the higher reg pressure....

Velocity will also heavily depend on barrel length....700mm barrel will generate more power at lower settings than a 500mm etc.

Hope this helps and feel free to PM me with any questions!

Dr. Mike Long 

 

[ChRiSiS]

I have 2 Crowns, a Crown Continuum in .22 and a gen 1 in .25, that I move back and forth between .22 and .25 and between 380mm, 600mm and 700mm barrels. It is no problem at all. As Mike says above, loosen the two screws on each side of the front end of the breech block and remove the old barrel, replace the new one and then swap out the probe. I found that going between the .22 and .25 did not even require any change to the reg or hammer spring. Of course, going to .30 may be different, or you may simply choose (as I did) to make adjustments because you want more or different velocity/power levels in the new caliber. I found that setting up for the maximum that I wanted in the larger caliber worked fine with the smaller caliber since I just shoot it at a lower level on the Power Wheel. Even if you do want to change the settings every time it really is quite easy to do.

Chris

 

[jawshunting]

Ok thanks guys

 

[davidsmork02]

Can i change barrel on hatsan factor with any other brand barrel?

 

[Mikelo123]

David,

I was curios about the Factor also....Seems like a decent gun for the price point....Maybe start a new topic and see what input you get...