Detents, Detents, Detents... Having issues... Help.

[GoatBoy]

It's clear we need to see the rest of the gun to figure this out. If we've inspected the Hell out of the detents, then the problem must be somewhere else. The small body scratch next to your detent is a flag.

Need to see the marker both assembled and disassembled so we can check for abnormal things, like missing field strip screw bushing, "customizations", an LX bolt which isn't really an LX bolt, and/or weird alignment which would cause the bolt to hit in a weird way.

[Nobody]

It's clear we need to see the rest of the gun to figure this out. If we've inspected the Hell out of the detents, then the problem must be somewhere else. The small body scratch next to your detent is a flag.

Need to see the marker both assembled and disassembled so we can check for abnormal things, like missing field strip screw bushing, "customizations", an LX bolt which isn't really an LX bolt, and/or weird alignment which would cause the bolt to hit in a weird way.

second this.

[Spider-TW]

"Shot out"...means the detent ball gets knocked from the detent body, or do you mean the whole detent goes missing?

[TyeStick]

The detent ball.
Is it possible that it's because the ball is metal?

"Shot out"...means the detent ball gets knocked from the detent body, or do you mean the whole detent goes missing?

[Nobody]

hold up there chief? so are you saying:
1) the detent body comes flying out of the gun itself, leaving a hole were the detent was? or
2) the detent ball, literally gets hot out of the barrel(you are assuming) during firing. so all you are left with is a detent body with no detent ball at all?

[TyeStick]

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[Nobody]

then it has to be the bolt. if the body is ok on the detent(assuming its not being mushroomed from the bolt striking the detent itself), the bolt head/face is grabbing the detent ball and forcing it out.

check the bolt, see if there is any irregularities or problems there.

[TyeStick]

I'm starting to think that it may just be the quality of the detent, and fact that the ball is metal. I think the white detent balls made of delrin may be a better choice. I'm puzzled though, because the stock AGD detent that was provided with my ULE custom had the white delrin ball shot out as well.

Here's pictures of my bolt. I also included a picture of the detent, w/ o-rings to show the amount of spacing I'm needing, in the hopes that my detent ball doesn't get shot out.

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Edit:

I think I found the issue. I removed the detent from the ULE body, and cleaned the threads on the body itself as well as on the detent. I found, that when rolling my finger across the metal detent ball back and fourth, that the metal ball tended to stick. I'm thinking that because the ball is sticking, that it's causing friction as the bolt moves forward, causing the bolt to rip the ball from the detent.

The picture below shows the detent itself marred, not so much by the detent ball itself, but possibly from the detent spring after the ball has already been shot out.

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Opinions?

[Nobody]

trying a delrin instead of metal might help. i was trying to find a detent like http://www.checkitproducts.com/produ...alldetent.html. that is for cocker threading only. it come with both delrin and metal, so you can build "your way". tried to find one in that style but for angel threading, but not having any luck.

[need4reebs]

hopefully Frizzle Fry will have a extra Fang Detent for ya and im waiting to hear back about those other ones as well?

[TyeStick]

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