FX Crown Hammer Spring Adjustment

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Mikelo123

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Hey Crown owners....

Have a question for you all....

I got another Crown yesterday, this time a Continuum (.22). Bought brand new and was running some shots over the chrony and when I tried to adjust the hammer spring the thing would not budge....

I took the adjuster out if the action and was able to get it to turn maybe a turn and a half either direction and it just locked up.....To the point it bent my Allen wrench!

I e-mailed in an order for new one from Melissa at FX Service tonight (Which means my brand new 1700 gun is useless for a week or so until she process the order and ships it out)....

Has anyone else had this issue?

Really starting to loose patience with FX, seems like it is one thing after another lately OR I can never find what I need in stock!

Another $5,000.00 spent this week alone on another Impact, Crown Continuum, Wildcat MK3 and have had to replace gauges, transfer ports, pellet probes. and now this....

Damn fine guns don't get me wrong but man it is really starting to bum me out having to always dump money into these brand new, expensive guns....

Oh well rant over....

Stay Safe all and a little public service announcement....WEAR A MASK and GIVE PEOPLE SOME SPACE IF YOU GO OUT (I promise it works)!!

Dr. Mike 


 
I've got a couple, one is a continuum. One has powder coated? The other is bare metal
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Yep, exactly what it looks like to me.

I am guessing was just never adjusted as it does work as is just not able to increase the hammer spring tension or decrease it....

Working on replacing a bunch of FX gauges today also on my Impacts...Not a single one was reading the correct pressure....

Doing the same on all my Wildcat MK3's as well....Anyone know how to dump the pressure on those....They don't have the 3mm screw on the side like the MK2 version has (that I saw)....

Starting to get a bit frustrated with some of the stuff I am seeing on FX guns lately....Just little things that should not be an issue at this price point.


 
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OK.........I'll bite. You said this is a new gun? You cannot adjust the hammer spring adjustment to the point you bent the wrench? So you ordered new parts from FX. There is a guarantee you know. Where did you buy it? Why are they not fixing this? Most competent mechanics know the maximum torque of fasteners and do not exceed it before they know there is a problem. You did and now it is FX's fault you screwed up the gun. Go figure!
 
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Steve,

Yep brand new gun....Bought from Trenier Outdoors.

Ha, I did enjoy your response....Seems there is always one guy who jumps in assuming the person who is having the problem caused it...

Don't worry in my line if work I am guilty of that also....A 400lb guy comes in who hasn't gotten any physical activity since Reagan was in office and complains he is having trouble breathing and his heart is enlarged....Yeah most likely he brought on the issue himself....

A bit of a background....I am a Vascular Surgeon, was double specialized, A WHOLE BUNCH of fancy schoolin....Let us just assume I am not an idiot.

Why NOT handle it through warranty??? Well Melissa at FX will 2 day me a replacement and it will take about 5 minutes to install.....Oh and she won't charge me for it (Lets just say I buy a whole bunch of FX stuff....I mean A LOT, I am sure you can ask around on here and people will back me up on that).

I am just skipping the middle man and saving myself a whole bunch of time.....

Thanks Jeff for being the devils advocate though....Hopefully my response put your mind at ease.

Let me know and can provide a pic or two showing what the defective part looks like and you can judge for yourself if it is human error....I get the feeling you kinda like the judging part.

Be Safe

Dr. Mike Long 








 
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Ha, Sometimes tough love is the best love!

I do apologize, chalk it up to a lot of long days and nights and frustration.....

Under the best of circumstances being in the medical field is tough enough now days and add this microscopic asshole COViD on top and just gets a bit much at times!!

We as a whole (Docs, Nurses etc.) don't like feeling helpless against something but this one we just have to ride the waves and treat em and street em best we can.....

Steve,

I do apologize, I am sure you were just making a point, and rightly so that guys who don't know what they are doing make a mess of things and blame the manufacturer etc. I have NO doubt that happens more often than not....

Be Safe....

Humbly,

Mike 
 
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Yeah, When I tried adjusting it and realized it was not budging with the usual force it takes with my Other Crowns, I popped it out...

It almost looks like the screw itself was not centered in the block and bound up....

Tried breaking it free and backing it out etc. but would not budge even with a bit if heat...

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A bit hard to tell in the pic but you can see how the end of the screw that is outside the adjuster is off by a few degrees....

New one should be here Wednesday or so and can get it wrapped back up...

Trying to figure out what way I want to go with this one. Might go a short .22 or .25 field gun or a long .30 long ranger.....Or somewhere in between.
 
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What we don’t know is DR Mike may have 22” guns, show no taper from bicep to wrist, a neck that goes straight down from ear lobes to exterior deltoids, and after every surgery there’s a pile of unusable bent scalpels and tweezers. Well, yeah, an Allen wrench will easily get bent, then.



Mike, as far as the wildcat MK3 goes, just turn the reg pressure gage CCW about a turn and a half, and the air will all be bled out within 10 minutes. I’ve used a gage on MK2’s threaded into that bleed port to check reg pressure status, and did just that to empty the gun out. 
 
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Mike,

You left the door open.....I couldn't resist commenting. The lack of personal responsibility in our society today is rampant. You read it all the time everywhere, even on this forum. FX is one of the finest air gun manufacturers, if not the very best. Yet you continually read how the owner's issues are always the factories fault, never their incompetence.
 
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Steve, there’s a member on here who shared with me that during the install of FX no limit rings, fresh out of the plastic case they came in, he snapped the base, like where it connects to the picatinny scope rail of his impact, the base of the rings snapped off. Shattered. I asked how tight he had it going on, and he said barely two fingers held on the alllen tool. I’m sure even with two fingers on the wrench, it had come to a stop when tightening, and it was time to give it a slight bit more, but way way under from the final torque setting(in which it would take multiple fingers)

Is that owner incompetent or was it a faulted product?
 
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