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Old 02-02-2017, 04:27 AM   #4
Jward681
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So as promised above I will show pics of the parts. Luckily at this time I can skip ordering parts as Jim AKA jimminiecricket told me to try something and it worked. He suggested lapping the seat with toothpaste and seeing if I could get it to seal. After 2 tries I got it working. GEL TYPE TOOTHPASTE FAILED ON FIRST ATTEMPT. COLGATE TO THE RESCUE I chucked the poppet into a drill, applied paste to sealing surface and went to work. After about a minute of slow speed and slight pressure of the brass collar into the poppet I was able to get the seat sealed again.
Brass collar and poppet....

Poppet by itself. Hard to get good pic of the groove in the seat but you can make it out in this pic...
After attempting this fix, I filled the tank to 1000psi and let it sit. After 24 hours she showed no signs of leaking so bumped pressure to 2000psi. Another 2 days with no loss and I'm calling it done.
As for the oring that cracked, I used an A111 ring from a Harbor Freight oring kit and it sealed just fine. One trick I did was to install brass collar then loosen and retighten to make sure it sealed. I did have slight leakage on first attempt thus the loosen and retighten. Also had about 200psi in tank when I did this to help oring situate itself properly.

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