Dye 3 way o ring hack?

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  • Trbo323
    MCB Member
    • Jul 2020
    • 6381
    • Vancouver WA

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    Dye 3 way o ring hack?

    Ok. I've only ever dealt with a few of the older dye 3 ways that use the specific dye o rings that are supposedly oval shaped... Or something like that

    Anyway, I was recently rebuilding a psychobalistics lightning for Super Nova, yes I know either I'm a masochist or he is crazy for paying me to rebuild one, but regardless I realized that these were based off the dye ultralight which uses those special o rings and I didn't have any. Tried 006, too stiff, trigger wouldn't return, 005 leaked even with dow 55.

    So I dug around and tried some metrics. I stretched a 2x2mm and surprisingly it worked great, seals up and travels smooth.

    So I have 2 questions

    1) can anyone confirm that the PB lightning 3 way uses those special dye o rings?

    2) if they do use the special o rings, is anyone else willing to confirm my results? I know the PB cockers are known for terrible tolerances so I'd like to know if 2x2mm work on a 3 way that we know was made correct and not just one that may or may not be in tolerance

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  • Ecapnation
    MCB Member
    • Jul 2020
    • 4334
    • South Central Long Island

    #2
    Lightnings were cheap metric copies... Going with no.

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    • Trbo323
      MCB Member
      • Jul 2020
      • 6381
      • Vancouver WA

      #3
      Originally posted by Ecapnation
      Lightnings were cheap metric copies... Going with no.
      But the rest of it isn't metric? It's all standard sizes I would expect

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      • Ecapnation
        Ecapnation commented
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        I'm doubting they use proprietary dye stuff and just went with something close enough
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