I’m headed downstairs to the lathe now and I’m going to put in some work. As always, I’ll keep you updated.
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Here is a pic of the brand new never installed reg they sent me. It’s another V2 that I was told should work “good enough”. This is the hard sealing surface that contacts the soft seat. This my friends is a no go. Doomed before installation. Time to work on it.
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Guys, when I took the bottle off this gun to double reg it, the blued steel bottle adapter looked like someone had crudely taken a bench grinder to it on one end, presumably to make it fit into the gun body. Of course this made it so that exposed, unblued raw steel was staring me in the face as if to say "Hahaha! We sold you a POS for $1700! You fool!!"..... ooooof
If you think Airmaks gives a damn about quality control, you're kidding yourself. Vet's pics here are direct evidence of this. My new video will be up tomorrow. Had to re-render a few times due to hard drive space. I'll post a link here once it's up.
This?Guys, when I took the bottle off this gun to double reg it, the blued steel bottle adapter looked like someone had crudely taken a bench grinder to it on one end, presumably to make it fit into the gun body. Of course this made it so that exposed, unblued raw steel was staring me in the face as if to say "Hahaha! We sold you a POS for $1700! You fool!!"..... ooooof
If you think Airmaks gives a damn about quality control, you're kidding yourself. Vet's pics here are direct evidence of this. My new video will be up tomorrow. Had to re-render a few times due to hard drive space. I'll post a link here once it's up.
i believe the point is , is that if FX produced a gun like this and left you floundering you wouldn't look at fx as the great company and would think twice before buying one , new or older , i wouldn't buy any gun from this company after seeing how this has been handled ! dont want a anything from this company , they should have been on this site to apologize and get every ones money back , i see these guys as untrustworthy now. too much time has passed ,Some of us airgunners are different. When you’ve been in this hobby for a long time you can see features in guns that make them must haves. I see from the post from another dude from Spain in another topic that he bought the gun knowing full well that the reg was junk. It appears myself and others are going to fix or bandaid what we have until Airmaks offers a final long term functioning reg. Then we can enjoy the gun and the reasons why we bought it. This is not the first and it won’t be the last airgun with a production issue. Patience is key with these issues. If you are not a patient guy, just return your gun.
there is no way they couldn't have known what this gun was when they approved them for release , and now they are looking for free r&d from the guys who bought them ,Joe you are absolutely right. In my opinion the only correct thing they can do to deal with this absolute fiasco is to publicly apologize on all platforms to the whole airgun community - that's #1.
#2 is ACTUALLY COME UP WITH A FIX THAT WORKS or OFFER PREPAID RETURN LABELS and FULL REFUNDS to anyone who bought this garbage-rod of a gun. Not only that, they should be providing free technical support to help anyone who needs assistance with installing these regs. (that last part will never happen - have you seen the barebones manual for this gun? It's laughable.)
You're never gonna see them own this epic failure as a responsible, customer-focused company should.
I am completely disgusted with Airmaks as a company after the way they've treated their customers and myself. Extremely shady.
This has happened a a bunch of times in this industry. If you haven’t owned a ton of guns over the last 10 years, I understand you may not have noticed. Even your beloved FX sold me a train wreck years ago and they didn’t bend over backwards or cater to me. RTI regs, Benjamin barrels, Snowpeak everythings, Kral poppets, the list goes on and on. None of these manufacturers jumped online and made apologies or offered mass refunds. We just need to relax and give them time to fix it. If you don’t have that kind of time, maybe you’re being over run with rats or have a big competition to attend, just get a different gun. This issue is really not that uncommon. That’s why I kept my gun. I’ve done it before on more occasions I can count on one hand.i believe the point is , is that if FX produced a gun like this and left you floundering you wouldn't look at fx as the great company and would think twice before buying one , new or older , i wouldn't buy any gun from this company after seeing how this has been handled ! dont want a anything from this company , they should have been on this site to apologize and get every ones money back , i see these guys as untrustworthy now. too much time has passed ,