Sharing a Cricket 2 Tactical "unadvertised" feature.

[ctshooter]

Owning a Vulcan 3 and a Cricket 2 Tactical at the same time has been educational. One of the huge selling points of the new Vulcan 3 design is that the air tube can be flipped to create a much larger plenum volume. As I received both airguns and was learning them within the same week or so I found a very strong similarity between the air tube design.

Namely is was the placement of these three breather holes:

Looking closer at the setup of the regulator and the small shelf inside the tube:

So I flipped the regulator around:

Re-assembled and aired back up. Before the large plenum flip I was getting around 860 max with .22 JSB 25gr redesign. After the plenum flip I'm getting 880 easily and looks to be a little bit more available.

Now that's what I'm talking about!!

 

[douger]

Pretty interesting. Wonder if it’s intended to be like that 

 

[Brent]

So did I read you flipped tube on both guns or just Vulcan? I would like to know did you do the c2t also and what was that outcome?

 

[harrymoreland]

You would think they would have announced that, or, announced why it should not be done.

Good ( hopefully ) find.

 

[thammer]

Owning a Vulcan 3 and a Cricket 2 Tactical at the same time has been educational. One of the huge selling points of the new Vulcan 3 design is that the air tube can be flipped to create a much larger plenum volume. As I received both airguns and was learning them within the same week or so I found a very strong similarity between the air tube design.

Namely is was the placement of these three breather holes:

Looking closer at the setup of the regulator and the small shelf inside the tube:

So I flipped the regulator around:

Re-assembled and aired back up. Before the large plenum flip I was getting around 860 max with .22 JSB 25gr redesign. After the plenum flip I'm getting 880 easily and looks to be a little bit more available.

Now that's what I'm talking about!!

I saw a mfg video showing that feature. I thought it was super smart to do it factory since you know people would have done it aftermarket. 

 

[ctshooter]

So did I read you flipped tube on both guns or just Vulcan? I would like to know did you do the c2t also and what was that outcome?

Yes - I flipped the C2T air tube around - the fpe numbers are the Cricket.

 

[Brent]

That's great news thanks , keep us posted if you discover any negative issues from that change. I'm still learning what all it will do as is . Later down the line I may try this for mine when I get through my learning curve and decide where I want it to settle in.

 

[Nightvisions64]

That’s pretty cool! I’d like to hear updates to the changes too. 

 

[Herbie87]

Hi all, is anybody able to provide me with the dimensions of the OEM plenum spacer? I picked up a used rifle that's had the plenum flipped but want to revert it back to factory.
Many thanks in advance.