Nation,
For those of you who have been following my saga of the blessed Steyr regulator, maybe someone can figure this out, but I can't.
I rebuilt my spare Steyr regulator, after I received the proper o rings. Put it all back together, installed it on the regulator tester, adjusted it to 85 BAR, tested it for an hour, all good 100%.
Took the Steyr apart, removed the regulator, and placed it aside. Installed rebuilt regulator, put the whole mess together, checked it for velocity, ------all 100%, good to go.
I go to bolt the factory regulator (I believe it is, due to the red paint on the screw heads) onto the regulator tester, and it fits only one way, and the one way it fits, it's impossible for it to hold air.
This picture shows the direction the regulator SUPPOSED to fit onto the regulator tester, but does not. This is due to the up/down bolts having a smaller spread than left/right bolts.
This picture shows the only way the regulator can bolt onto the regulator tester. In doing this the upper and lower part of the regulator tester o ring valve chamber is exposed, thus not holding pressure.
Both of these regulators can be bolted onto the Steyr, and work properly. Only the rebuilt one bolts on properly, while the other one I removed from the Steyr will not.
I believe, that it's not the tester that is the problem, but one of the regulators (what I think was the original) was manufactured wrong.
Has anyone ever had this problem?
It is driving several different people I know to the brink of insanity, because I cannot figure it out.
Told ya it was a doozy........
Tom Holland
Field Target Tech
For those of you who have been following my saga of the blessed Steyr regulator, maybe someone can figure this out, but I can't.
I rebuilt my spare Steyr regulator, after I received the proper o rings. Put it all back together, installed it on the regulator tester, adjusted it to 85 BAR, tested it for an hour, all good 100%.
Took the Steyr apart, removed the regulator, and placed it aside. Installed rebuilt regulator, put the whole mess together, checked it for velocity, ------all 100%, good to go.
I go to bolt the factory regulator (I believe it is, due to the red paint on the screw heads) onto the regulator tester, and it fits only one way, and the one way it fits, it's impossible for it to hold air.
This picture shows the direction the regulator SUPPOSED to fit onto the regulator tester, but does not. This is due to the up/down bolts having a smaller spread than left/right bolts.
This picture shows the only way the regulator can bolt onto the regulator tester. In doing this the upper and lower part of the regulator tester o ring valve chamber is exposed, thus not holding pressure.
Both of these regulators can be bolted onto the Steyr, and work properly. Only the rebuilt one bolts on properly, while the other one I removed from the Steyr will not.
I believe, that it's not the tester that is the problem, but one of the regulators (what I think was the original) was manufactured wrong.
Has anyone ever had this problem?
It is driving several different people I know to the brink of insanity, because I cannot figure it out.
Told ya it was a doozy........
Tom Holland
Field Target Tech