Leaking after reassembly
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Topic: Leaking after reassembly
Posted By: stretchman
Subject: Leaking after reassembly
Date Posted: 16 January 2009 at 5:22pm
| I just finished polishing the internals on my 98 platinum. A very simple procedure. When I reassembled the marker and test fired it, gas started leaking from the tube nut where it enters the valve. I tightened the nut and the leak stopped until I dry fired it a few more times the leak started again. The marker fires and cycles normally, it just starts to leak after a few shots. I don't want to over tighten the tube nut, so where should I go from here? There is no "O" ring where the tube enters the valve is there? There wasn't one there (that I saw) when I disassembled the marker. |
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 16 January 2009 at 9:45pm
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I would make sure the valve and hose are properly aligned. The gas line on the platinum is a press-fit with that weird nut in the body. But I would guess even a slight alignment would cause leaking. Second of that, clean the mating surfaces, make sure theres no crud in there. ------------- 
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Posted By: stretchman
Date Posted: 18 January 2009 at 5:21pm
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Thanks Enos. The nut that holds the gas line in the valve is chromed. I noticed that some of the chrome was flaking off. I removed the line from the marker, made sure the mating surfaces were clean and reinstalled it. No problems now.
Thanks again Andreas |