FX My latest invention for the FX Crown/Impact/etc

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If you look online, you'll find a tool to pull the FX regulator piston out of the action of the above rifles, and others I'm sure. It costs around $45 and is hard to find. Desperation being the mother of invention, I invented this tool to do the same thing. You can purchase it at Home Depot or Lowe's and make one yourself for around $5 or less.
It's really hard to make and you might need drawings and blueprints :), but I'll just give you the rough idea, just in case I want to patent it.
Buy some 1/4" OD Polyethelyne tubing and it has the correct inside diameter to grab and pull the piston. Cut to the length of your choice and on the other end, take a knife and split the end, so that it will still hold the piston, and not drop it. Use the split end to insert the reg and push it home, and the split will let you easily work it back and forth to release the piston once in place.

It works like magic and costs nearly nothing and the PE plastic cannot damage the reg in any way.

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bchannell said:
If you look online, you'll find a tool to pull the FX regulator piston out of the action of the above rifles, and others I'm sure. It costs around $45 and is hard to find. Desperation being the mother of invention, I invented this tool to do the same thing. You can purchase it at Home Depot or Lowe's and make one yourself for around $5 or less.
It's really hard to make and you might need drawings and blueprints :), but I'll just give you the rough idea, just in case I want to patent it.
Buy some 1/4" OD Polyethelyne tubing and it has the correct inside diameter to grab and pull the piston. Cut to the length of your choice and on the other end, take a knife and split the end, so that it will still hold the piston, and not drop it. Use the split end to insert the reg and push it home, and the split will let you easily work it back and forth to release the piston once in place.

It works like magic and costs nearly nothing and the PE plastic cannot damage the reg in any way.

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clever..
 
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bchannell said:
If you look online, you'll find a tool to pull the FX regulator piston out of the action of the above rifles, and others I'm sure. It costs around $45 and is hard to find. Desperation being the mother of invention, I invented this tool to do the same thing. You can purchase it at Home Depot or Lowe's and make one yourself for around $5 or less.
It's really hard to make and you might need drawings and blueprints :), but I'll just give you the rough idea, just in case I want to patent it.
Buy some 1/4" OD Polyethelyne tubing and it has the correct inside diameter to grab and pull the piston. Cut to the length of your choice and on the other end, take a knife and split the end, so that it will still hold the piston, and not drop it. Use the split end to insert the reg and push it home, and the split will let you easily work it back and forth to release the piston once in place.

It works like magic and costs nearly nothing and the PE plastic cannot damage the reg in any way.

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thanks for sharing
 
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Xcaliber said:
a narrow needle nose pliers should work as well.
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No you do not want to use a needle nose plier. Sure it will get the piston out, but it will also damage the piston too. That is why earnest created his own tools to get the piston out. Why wouldn't earnest just use pliers to pull it out?Unless you want to risk damage to the piston, I recommend don't use pliers to pull it out.
 
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ImpactX said:
No you do not want to use a needle nose plier. Sure it will get the piston out, but it will also damage the piston too. That is why earnest created his own tools to get the piston out. Why wouldn't earnest just use pliers to pull it out?Unless you want to risk damage to the piston, I recommend don't use pliers to pull it out.
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it depends on whether you plan on reusing that reg or not.

There's only two type of scenarios where I would want to replace the amp reg:
A)i do it for upgrade purposes, because the current one sucks bad enough for me to want to replace it, and i won't want to keep it around once it's out.
B) Replacing it because it's leaking and broken, no i ain't going to just replace the damn o'ring, if there's a leak from the reg I'll put a new reg in there.

in either scenario i couldn't careless about "damaging" the piston since i want it completely out of there and be thrown straight into the garbage bin.

If it's working fine, it will stay in there and zero reason to replace it to begin with, if it need to be out, it will go straight into the trash.

I would use needle nose pliers 100%
 
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frankie said:
Between the hose and the pen, y'all making me feel like an idiot lol. I bought the 45 dollar tool, and it really doesn't work that well.
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It doesn't work because they left out a little tiny detail. There is suppose to be a little o-ring in there to help seal and create a vacuum when you screw it out,, the recess is in there for the o-ring but...NO 0-ring. You install the thing by putting it in with it unscrewed a bit, put it in the hole, then screw it in.
 
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