Just got it recently for very affordable $, it was sitting in a closet for years.
Clean it up, lets test it, the regulator is leaking like crazy. No problem, ordered a full set of orings from oringsandmore, got the package, lets start elbow greasing.
Started taking the regulator apart, luckily from rear - tank end, so many dried out dead orings hard like a plastic ring....
and I stuck with the front valve cap - the body side. Need a spanner wrench, I have no spanner wrench, but two dowels clamped in a vise shall do?
Heat up the brass thing with a small torch, trying to brake the many years old bond (some sort of loctite I would expect), won't go, so applied a little more muscles....and one of the dowels snapped.
Then I saw the damage, the valve pin is bent, pretty badly...and the front cap is still tight. If I would get that fkin cap down I may be able to torch and bend back that pin to acceptable...
Me better get an other Regulator? Cannot locate...can you guys help with a source?
Clean it up, lets test it, the regulator is leaking like crazy. No problem, ordered a full set of orings from oringsandmore, got the package, lets start elbow greasing.
Started taking the regulator apart, luckily from rear - tank end, so many dried out dead orings hard like a plastic ring....
and I stuck with the front valve cap - the body side. Need a spanner wrench, I have no spanner wrench, but two dowels clamped in a vise shall do?
Heat up the brass thing with a small torch, trying to brake the many years old bond (some sort of loctite I would expect), won't go, so applied a little more muscles....and one of the dowels snapped.
Then I saw the damage, the valve pin is bent, pretty badly...and the front cap is still tight. If I would get that fkin cap down I may be able to torch and bend back that pin to acceptable...
Me better get an other Regulator? Cannot locate...can you guys help with a source?
