New HW100 Release: HW100X

.... and now, the X rifle with a carbine cylinder 💥💥💥
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Well dammit my brand new HW100X has a slow leak! :rolleyes:
Picked it up last Saturday, it's shot about 300-400 pellets. Topped up to about 220 bar last weekend. Now down to about 147.
 
Mine hasn't leaked but fitting the probe I noticed the cylinder moved a tiny bit so snugged it up firm hand tight.
 
Just out of curiosity @Blackmax what will you do with it from the get go? Will you leave as is in order things are ok warranty wise or will you remove anti-tamper etc in order to fine tune? I assume that initially you'll just shoot it and see how it performs. Nice rifle btw. A fine choice sir!
 
Smeth said:
Mine hasn't leaked but fitting the probe I noticed the cylinder moved a tiny bit so snugged it up firm hand tight.
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They are prone to this. Mine would do that when attached to a 6.8L CF cylinder that had a short, stiff whip.

In certain positions, due to the tank weight and port orientation, it would create a torque force that would use the probe as a lever to begin unscrewing the cylinder. It took me a couple of those events to cotton on to exactly what was happening and how.

It is also a good idea to insert the probe before attaching the whip, then disconnecting it after filling then remove the probe.
 
GrahamHenderson said:
I must be the only one that does not refill the rifle before storing it away, ..
.. 150Bar of pressure is over 1 Ton per square inch, this crap about "keeping the seals in place" is nonsense! 😂
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Nothing to do with keeping seals in place. I'm just used to doing it because the last thing I want to remember when setting off shooting is to fill it up! Chances are I'd forget. I always did this with my Steyr, EV2 and FTP.
 
They've upped the cylinder pressure to 250 and fitted a new regulator, apart from that I believe it's no different to the old one, which was at 200 top pressure. I wonder if some of the seals should have been uprated when they did the new X.
No matter what pressure you leave it at it shouldn't leak when brand new.
 
Mamba86 said:
Just out of curiosity @Blackmax what will you do with it from the get go? Will you leave as is in order things are ok warranty wise or will you remove anti-tamper etc in order to fine tune? I assume that initially you'll just shoot it and see how it performs. Nice rifle btw. A fine choice sir!
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Check the accuracy, then when I have time take it apart to look at the reg set up. I'm curios why you need to charge the cylinder before fitting.
 
Blackmax said:
Check the accuracy, then when I have time take it apart to look at the reg set up. I'm curios why you need to charge the cylinder before fitting.
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Me too. I think someone said a number of pages back it had something to do with setting some seals but beats me why this should suddenly be a thing. Unless my memory is worse than I know, I've never before heard of any gun ever having such an apparent requirement.
 
Randomone said:
Me too. I think someone said a number of pages back it had something to do with setting some seals but beats me why this should suddenly be a thing. Unless my memory is worse than I know, I've never before heard of any gun ever having such an apparent requirement.
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Seals will set as the internal pressure rises. It's not like fitting a car tyre where they have to blast the bead onto the rim.
 
Blackmax said:
Check the accuracy, then when I have time take it apart to look at the reg set up. I'm curios why you need to charge the cylinder before fitting.
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I knew I'd asked and someone had replied.

Galo29

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CWC Matelot said:
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As far as filling the cylinder before fitting first time, i am informed it is to assist in bedding the seals in the cylinder as touched on by others in the thread. It's a really slow fill to about 50bar, leave for a couple minutes, then fill to 200,250 bar. Fit cylinder job done.
That's my 100x in the video.
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