Dreamed and saved for a long time before getting mine in .30 with a .22 barrel to boot.
Thing shoots great..or it did for the first 200 shots. Issue is that the pin holding the bolt to the block housing is loose...so the bolt comes back then gets stuck. You can push the pin back with a screwdriver but it just drops again.
Soooooo frustrating. Hoping to get some help from the nice folks that sold it to me. Just heartbroken. I've had it for maybe 2 months.
Chapter 2. Seller said to contact the manufacturer rep in North Carolina. (still scratching my head on that treatment) So I called FX North America out of NC and spoke to their lead technician. After a few minutes I realized whose voice it was..Esting Rowe! Imagine calling Nike about a basketball that bounces funny and they fwd the call to Michael Jordan. That's how it felt ---> skill, experience complete confidence. Dude says "don't worry at all, you can send it here, I can send you parts whatever you want."
THIS was the treatment I wanted for buying 2500 worth of pellet gun. Anyway after talking to him and getting assurances about the warranty I unbolted the upper half and started looking over the situation. Esting said I could center punch the pin and I could call back with questions...but that didn't work for me plus it was getting late and I was certain I could get parts if i screwed up.....so I decided to braze it on the bottom (my idea). At first I brazed both sides for strength, but that messed with the tolerances...so I just did the bottom (see pic 4) you can still see a small "pin" hole as I did not want to go crazy with the solder. I used a tiny bit of flux and put most of the heat on the mild steel linkage.
Very happy to be back in action with no "pin drift" and no slop in the action. I am still going to ask FX for a replacement bolt in case my brazing gives out. After brazing and sanding it I re-blued the steel so it looks factory.
I got a good scare out of this but I was only down for 4 days and I learned a lot. When your gun shoots like my FX then you put Esting Rowe on your technical service team..it sends a big message. My confidence is restored.
For liabilities sake please dont try this and screw up your warranty. There were about 20 allen bolts holding the upper half on, there looked to be special lube, probably something that does not destroy O-rings and lastly I do expect to re-zero the scope.
I want to thank all who viewed and especially all those who commented on this ...as I was down in the dumps and you all were there with support and ideas.
Thank you.
Thing shoots great..or it did for the first 200 shots. Issue is that the pin holding the bolt to the block housing is loose...so the bolt comes back then gets stuck. You can push the pin back with a screwdriver but it just drops again.
Soooooo frustrating. Hoping to get some help from the nice folks that sold it to me. Just heartbroken. I've had it for maybe 2 months.
Chapter 2. Seller said to contact the manufacturer rep in North Carolina. (still scratching my head on that treatment) So I called FX North America out of NC and spoke to their lead technician. After a few minutes I realized whose voice it was..Esting Rowe! Imagine calling Nike about a basketball that bounces funny and they fwd the call to Michael Jordan. That's how it felt ---> skill, experience complete confidence. Dude says "don't worry at all, you can send it here, I can send you parts whatever you want."
THIS was the treatment I wanted for buying 2500 worth of pellet gun. Anyway after talking to him and getting assurances about the warranty I unbolted the upper half and started looking over the situation. Esting said I could center punch the pin and I could call back with questions...but that didn't work for me plus it was getting late and I was certain I could get parts if i screwed up.....so I decided to braze it on the bottom (my idea). At first I brazed both sides for strength, but that messed with the tolerances...so I just did the bottom (see pic 4) you can still see a small "pin" hole as I did not want to go crazy with the solder. I used a tiny bit of flux and put most of the heat on the mild steel linkage.
Very happy to be back in action with no "pin drift" and no slop in the action. I am still going to ask FX for a replacement bolt in case my brazing gives out. After brazing and sanding it I re-blued the steel so it looks factory.
I got a good scare out of this but I was only down for 4 days and I learned a lot. When your gun shoots like my FX then you put Esting Rowe on your technical service team..it sends a big message. My confidence is restored.
For liabilities sake please dont try this and screw up your warranty. There were about 20 allen bolts holding the upper half on, there looked to be special lube, probably something that does not destroy O-rings and lastly I do expect to re-zero the scope.
I want to thank all who viewed and especially all those who commented on this ...as I was down in the dumps and you all were there with support and ideas.
Thank you.
