While I was doing some pre-season prep in the vault, I decided to do my semi-monthly oil&gas procedure on my precious Palmer brass. All was beautiful and peachy keen until I came to the last, lowliest little Hurc, who gurgled and squeaked and then began to leak loudly from the general area of the asa. I dumped a bunch more oil in (my usual trick) and she just leaked all the more loudly. She was keeping enough to cycle, but the CO2 tank was getting cold from the venting. Hmmmm....
Well, having just doctored on a Painter who was happily waiting for her loctite to set and since I had all the "tools" for a lower tube assault out anyway, rolling my eyes, I thought "what the heck."
I filled the tub with warm water and took the Hurc down for a dunk to see if I could ascertain the exact location of the leak. Once the bubbling chaos of a swimming paintball gun settled down, I could see that air was streaming steady from between the asa and the lower tube. While it was underwater, I cycled the gun once...
and the leak stopped completely!
Gone!
Though pleased, I can only imagine what the trouble might have been. Debris in the gun ( did not see anything expelled into the tube) or just some O rings in need of a warm wet fluffing, I do not know.
Whatever the forensics, it was the easiest leak hunt I was ever on.
GBGP
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