Fx drs oring failures anyone?

[AirgunAndy89]

Received my fx drs classic .22 700mm with the shp plenum .
Let’s first say that when this gun is sealed it’s a tack driver not only at 100 but even out to 200 yards !
Unfortunetly 6 out of 10 outings an oring failure has occurred 3 of which has been an oring on the barrel that holds the compressed air in res. To back flow through the transfer port .
Next failures have been one oring between the shp plenum and receiver .

Next failure has been the oring to seal probe inside of transfer port body .

And yet again a oring failure on the amp regulator body .

All these failures appear to be the oring delaminating leaving bits and pieces behind during removal .

So I ask has anyone else ever found a bad batch of orings on a rifle or manufacturer ? If so can anyone point me in the direction of some higher quality orings in the states ?

 

[Ta-Ta Toothie]

That looks like from installation. Getting pinched.

 

[Ta-Ta Toothie]

Must of been a new hire that day....

 

[AirgunAndy89]

That’s how all the orings looked after failures .. factory rifle , filled to 250 bar and regulation at 145 bar .. I thought the same thing initially.. last remaining orings were able to delaminate also similar to these fails .

 

[Ta-Ta Toothie]

Yeah, but the way they are cut was from installing the barrel etc.

 

[ChuckHunter]

That oring look 20 years old!
That's just sad quality on FXs part.

 

[Ta-Ta Toothie]

Looked like lube at 1st, but looking closer it does look off. But that one piece was sheared off for sure.

 

[Ta-Ta Toothie]

That oring look 20 years old!
That's just sad quality on FXs part.

When you buy the best, who needs the rest

 

[FLgunner]

Looks like a bad batch of o-rings made it onto the assembly line! Doesn't the Classic have a max fill of 230 BAR? Not that 250 BAR would shred those o-rings, unless they were damaged during installation, or are from a bad batch. I'd contact your vendor and ask for a complete reseal, under warranty!

 

[Vetmx]

I never shoot my DRS. And it’s been fantastic.

 

[AirgunAndy89]

I never shoot my DRS. And it’s been fantastic.

I’ve shot around 1k …
Assortment of slugs and so far haven’t found something it doesn’t like . Except for orings ..Obviously some better than others . Hand cast shoot terrific .

 

[TMH]

I recently bought 2 synthetic classics in .22 cal when they came available for deals pre-owned. As received they seem to prefer 15.89's, but that's O.K. with me as I will likely shoot Hades/Atomics through them. The 500mm gun is just awesome - light, handy, accurate, just a tiny bit low velocity on first shot but overall small ES. The 600mm gun wasn't so good with a 30+ fps spread over 12 rounds (Orion mag capacity, and these mags are great!). And that was the ES after burning 2 dry-fire shots. It has gone back for service. Might not be the gun's fault as I don't know what the original owner did to it.

Would love to see a few more shots available per fill, but I knew that limitation going in. I also got the dreaded block with the M8 threaded pressure gauge (at least on my 500. Don't have the 600 in hand to check). Got a couple of the new M8 threaded Sekhmet gauges ordered just to see first hand how badly they protrude out from the gun's OEM slim profile. Will be nice to have confidence in my gauge accuracy if I end up using them. And the Sekhmet folks have been really nice to deal with - at a time when customer service sometimes seems to be a lost art.

Fortunately no o-ring failures on my guns yet.

 

[Footloose]

I recently bought a DRS .22 600 had It about a week , the valve seal let loose dumping all the air out of the barrel enough to give a guy a heart attack , anyways I sent It back to the supplier for repair ...Its still there . Its not the first problem Iv had with FX I think Im done with FX air guns .

 

[AirgunAndy89]

I recently bought a DRS .22 600 had It about a week , the valve seal let loose dumping all the air out of the barrel enough to give a guy a heart attack , anyways I sent It back to the supplier for repair ...Its still there . Its not the first problem Iv had with FX I think Im done with FX air guns .

I can’t say I’m done with fx .. but rather aware that I may need to change these rings out to better ones before tuning and sighting in

 

[AirgunAndy89]

I recently bought 2 synthetic classics in .22 cal when they came available for deals pre-owned. As received they seem to prefer 15.89's, but that's O.K. with me as I will likely shoot Hades/Atomics through them. The 500mm gun is just awesome - light, handy, accurate, just a tiny bit low velocity on first shot but overall small ES. The 600mm gun wasn't so good with a 30+ fps spread over 12 rounds (Orion mag capacity, and these mags are great!). And that was the ES after burning 2 dry-fire shots. It has gone back for service. Might not be the gun's fault as I don't know what the original owner did to it.

Would love to see a few more shots available per fill, but I knew that limitation going in. I also got the dreaded block with the M8 threaded pressure gauge (at least on my 500. Don't have the 600 in hand to check). Got a couple of the new M8 threaded Sekhmet gauges ordered just to see first hand how badly they protrude out from the gun's OEM slim profile. Will be nice to have confidence in my gauge accuracy if I end up using them. And the Sekhmet folks have been really nice to deal with - at a time when customer service sometimes seems to be a lost art.

Fortunately no o-ring failures on my guns yet.

Mine is the heavy slug liner so anything over 25 grain shoots amazing .. I’ve seen some super consistent shot strings and with the shp plenum and at 150 bar for slinging them 30+ grain slugs over 900 I’m seeing about 16-18 shots before a fill which is fine as this gun is strictly a target rifle and stays teathered

 

[hdstroker]

I was thinking about jumping for a drs hp and a delta chassis ,maybe a pantera now I hope and pretty sure you all will find a bullet proof cure

 

[AirgunAndy89]

Oh my so many rings to match up

 

[AirgunAndy89]

Well a good days work and a few cuss words and the drs is back to holding air and shooting .. I found several other orings that you could delaminate using fingernail .. I’m guessing I just had a bad batch of rings on this gun . Went on to the tube 100yard range and shot a .565” 5 shot group using griffin boat tail slugs .. she’s back but when will I need to go down this road again .. hopefully next year at the soonest