Can anyone tell me the differences between viton, silicone, PTFE and bunm o rings ? which should be best ? I just replaced the seals in my HW100. By the way, i highly recommend HW100tuning.com. Their diagrams show the old vs new HW100 and their kit comes with the piston sleeve seal. Great service. Their seals were also wrapped and tagged individually. I also bought their gauge to set up my regulator. It all worked great and im back up and running. I shoot this gun a lot, it's on it's third set of seals. Last two times, I sent it to Alan Z for a reseal and tune. He does great work but this time I was in no hurry and wanted to figure it out by myself. 

Are Viton the best to replace with, a step up or down in quality ?
 
Well, three weeks or so after the rebuild. The seals are holding air and the gun is back to hitting flies at will at 25 yards. It is also shooting pellets well that it didn't shoot well in the past. The rebuild and new tune seem to have done the trick. Being more concerned with accuracy, I haven't chronographed it yet. It seems to prefer lite pellets in the 7 to 8 gr range. I would think it is shooting between 750 and 800 fps. I'll find out for sure later.