Author Topic: Evanix Tactical Sniper (Read 99279 times))

dogwood · « **Reply #60 on:** January 27, 2014, 10:15:31 PM »

Quote from: sfttailrdr46 on January 27, 2014, 09:56:16 PM

Harbor Freight $3.95 each battery powered led lamps. Mount on top of diffuser with a rubber band so for $8.00 you have workable light source . I have been using this for my beta master with no errors as long as alignment is correct. Much cheaper than actual light kit for the chrony

Sweet! Thanks Don

dogwood · « **Reply #61 on:** January 29, 2014, 10:31:38 PM »

found a coupon from HF for those lights, $2.59ea, no sales tax here so walked out with 2 for $5.18!

can't wait to try them out, thanks again Don

Sfttailrdr46 · « **Reply #62 on:** January 29, 2014, 11:13:02 PM »

Glad to help and they work great with my Beta Master

dogwood · « **Reply #63 on:** February 01, 2014, 06:13:22 PM »

Just had an explosive valve dump!!

I had polished up the hammer some more and made delrin washers (thin) for the spring to ride on, seems most of the "gritty feeling" was from the spring.

screwed the adjust back to flush with the receiver, shot a mag over the chrono had same poor numbers, shot another at 4 turns out, better but still kinda random

had just sat down with it adjusted 6 1/2 turns out, fired the first shot, looked ok, second shot was a blank, the mag hadn't moved, fixed that and BAMM! stupid loud and butt load of air hitting me in the face

cocked it back a bit and there is no sign of the valve stem!

looks like my bad numbers where due to a failing stem.

at this point I haven't opened the valve area yet, but i have drilled holes in the shroud.... not sure what PA is going to say or do.. guess we'll see.

ears are still ringing

Finchlake · « **Reply #64 on:** February 01, 2014, 06:27:09 PM »

DANG, glad you were not hurt. Live to shoot again.

dogwood · « **Reply #65 on:** February 03, 2014, 08:41:23 PM »

Got a call from PA, rifles going back for them to look at fix/replace.

Guess we'll find out in a week or two

Sfttailrdr46 · « **Reply #66 on:** February 03, 2014, 08:45:21 PM »

Quote from: dogwood on February 03, 2014, 08:41:23 PM

Got a call from PA, rifles going back for them to look at fix/replace.

Guess we'll find out in a week or two

Good luck on the return PA is pretty good about returns and hopefully they will be understanding with the replace or repair

rkr · « **Reply #67 on:** February 04, 2014, 01:14:19 AM »

Evanix seems to have a big problem with their valves. First one local guy with a .45 snapped the valve stem at the o-ring groove. Then I broke the valve seal, admittedly after some tuning leading to increased power. Bad seal thing also happened to two other local guys in both 9mm and .45 guns. Then I received a replacement valve and the stem in that valve started expanding so badly that it locked open after only 10 shots also dumping out all the air. So, it seems that Evanix has at least a batch of valves with poorly hardened valve stems and that they use a valve seal material that can barely handle the power levels of those guns as they come out of the factory.

What they should do is to redesign the valve without the o-ring groove having the seal in the stem tunnel instead. Then use better valve seal material and finally pay careful attention to their QC in stem hardening process. Things being as they are now I wouldn't buy another Evanix gun, these are not isolated incidents but they seem to happen with way too many new guns.

dogwood · « **Reply #68 on:** February 04, 2014, 01:23:13 AM »

they seem to be pushing a little too hard and putting things out that aren't quite up to snuff, the hammer on my gun still had lots of burrs from the machining process, one piece had broken loose and was trapped in the spring.
Hopefully they get it together before their rep is tarnished too much.

rkr · « **Reply #69 on:** February 04, 2014, 01:40:10 AM »

Quote from: dogwood on February 04, 2014, 01:23:13 AM

they seem to be pushing a little too hard and putting things out that aren't quite up to snuff, the hammer on my gun still had lots of burrs from the machining process, one piece had broken loose and was trapped in the spring.
Hopefully they get it together before their rep is tarnished too much.

That has also been the case with guns here. Also the slot where the hammer guide screw rides seems to be chewed on several guns. Add to that holes drilled some 1mm offset blocking flow or breaking o-ring grooves, valve springs bouncing around and blocking air inlets, no depinger, unpolished trigger surfaces ...

Nomadic Pirate · « **Reply #70 on:** February 04, 2014, 02:16:45 AM »

I had 1 of the .357s for a year and the other one for over 6 months, shot many 1000s rounds out of them and they are just fine, maybe sometimes guns are best left alone

rkr · « **Reply #71 on:** February 04, 2014, 02:34:22 AM »

Quote from: Nomadic Pirate on February 04, 2014, 02:16:45 AM

I had 1 of the .357s for a year and the other one for over 6 months, shot many 1000s rounds out of them and they are just fine, maybe sometimes guns are best left alone

That is quite true, unfortunately not that many guns fill my exceptations as they come from the factory. The only ones that required no fixing (in my opinion that is) were my Feinwerkbau 300S and Anschutz 54. Besides, you've had trigger jobs done on your guns

Nomadic Pirate · « **Reply #72 on:** February 04, 2014, 12:15:35 PM »

only on the pup, the rifle is bone stock

dogwood · « **Reply #73 on:** February 04, 2014, 01:34:10 PM »

Just got off the phone with PA, they're going to send me a new valve

Quicker than sending it back and gives me an official OK to crack it open LOL

dogwood · « **Reply #74 on:** February 04, 2014, 01:53:59 PM »

Quote from: Nomadic Pirate on February 04, 2014, 02:16:45 AM

I had 1 of the .357s for a year and the other one for over 6 months, shot many 1000s rounds out of them and they are just fine, maybe sometimes guns are best left alone

I glad to hear you haven't had any issues, the part that failed on my gun was left alone.
My gun had issues right from the get go, "gritty" action and poor performance.
The only thing I did was deburr the hammer and polishing it, along with fire lapping the barrel, none of which should have caused a valve failure.
I not saying all Evanix rifles have issue, but obviously they are sending some out that do. Which tells me they might be slipping on QC. Which I contribute too trying to get too much out to quickly
Look at how many new guns they've announced in just the last year.

Every manufacture has issues once in awhile and it has to be looked at like that.
It's only when the bad reports start out numbering the good that you can say that an issue has gotten out of hand and even then it might not be as bad as some will try to make it out as.

Nomadic Pirate · « **Reply #75 on:** February 04, 2014, 02:36:19 PM »

They probably do need to revise the material used for those stems, they are new to big bores so they still need to learn and feedback like yours is great and should get to the company as fast as possible.

Yeah, no matter what company, there's always lemons, boy you continually hear of lemons on them 2000+ bucks guns so nobody is immune to that.

The gritty action is one thing that should have raised an immediate red flag, that lever action is butter smooth and that is one recurrent comment that you hear

Sfttailrdr46 · « **Reply #76 on:** February 04, 2014, 02:55:48 PM »

The gritty action is one thing that should have raised an immediate red flag, that lever action is butter smooth and that is one recurrent comment that you hear

That is very true My first Rainstorm had a cracked stock and was replaced by the seller imediatly but the side lever was buttery smooth as is the action on the .25 replacement and the .22 I just received. I am Happy with both Rainstorm II's and am looking forward to a third Evanix big bore as soon as I have all my support equipment in place

dogwood · « **Reply #77 on:** February 04, 2014, 03:22:38 PM »

If I had been smart and not so eager to get shooting I should have called and gotten a replacement
But the thought of waiting several more weeks was too much LOL

I have a real problem with instant gratification

Nomadic Pirate · « **Reply #78 on:** February 04, 2014, 03:50:18 PM »

That's why I think the Pyramyd 10 x 10 program is a must, I always get it.

that gun would have never made it out of the store and for 10 bucks you woiuld have gotten and shot a good gun on day one, well worth it IMO

dogwood · « **Reply #79 on:** February 04, 2014, 04:58:46 PM »

Quote from: Nomadic Pirate on February 04, 2014, 03:50:18 PM

That's why I think the Pyramyd 10 x 10 program is a must, I always get it.

that gun would have never made it out of the store and for 10 bucks you woiuld have gotten and shot a good gun on day one, well worth it IMO

At this point I would have to totally Agee

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