Where to source QB/Gauntlet tank block?

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I was able to purchase one a couple pf months ago. Called up Umarex, selected the parts department extension, they still had me in their system. I gave them the part#, momentary silence, I hear mumbling in the background, then I am asked something to the effect "what do you need the part for" I reply "it's for my gauntlet" another pause, more background mumbling, then I was asked for a form of payment. I would follow this script.

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SteveV said:
I was able to purchase one a couple pf months ago. Called up Umarex, selected the parts department extension, they still had me in their system. I gave them the part#, momentary silence, I hear mumbling in the background, then I am asked something to the effect "what do you need the part for" I reply "it's for my gauntlet" another pause, more background mumbling, then I was asked for a form of payment. I would follow this script.

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What are the part numbers for the drop block and whatever else you show in the image?
 
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Well, sad day. Called Umarex and they do not send tank blocks out anymore.

Screw Umarex. They came in, put some "fancy" stock on a QB79 HPA conversion and called it groundbreaking, when people like Bob Sterne and @nervoustrig had been masterfully modifying QB's for YEARS. Umarex has apparently worked out some deal where they get exclusive rights to the QB guns/parts and have choked out small businesses such as Archer, FDAR, etc.

Maybe I'm being dramatic, but it feels like it's the end of an era. Converting Crosman/QB guns to PCP via the tank block conversion was the dawn of widespread, regulated PCP's and it's over. I feel like a man who's visited his home town just to see that all the special places of his youth have been wiped out by a Walmart or something. It's the end of a freaking era.
 
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yes it comes apart, bottle regulator screws directly into the block, standard 1/2G, but it doesn't have a valve pin depressor, I used a 4mm screw and cut off the head, cut to about 15mm long and tapped the hole directly in the middle and screwed it in tight to make it a valve pin depressor, you will need to do some sort of machining to the part to fit your needs.
 
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