reg seat break in needed?!

[phantomhitman]

i finally got around to replacing all of my orings in the valve but did not have a tank to test it with. my tank came back from rehydro today so i aired it up and a small amount of air came out of the blow off valve. well i pulled the trigger and the air stopped.......a few seconds later the leak came back.....pulled the trigger again...it stopped again. It continued to do this. I pulled the valve out, inspected it to make sure no dirt was on the reg seat and that it was in the right way. Everything was fine. I then put the valve back together and aired up again, same thing. I even adjusted the velocity screw which did very little in helping stop the leak. I then replaced my new reg seat with the old original one, aired it up and major air flow came out of the back of the blow off. At this point I am confused. So for the hell of it i put the new seat back in and aired it up, no leak as of yet!!??

So does a new reg seat need to break in to seal correctly? Or is this another problem? Also, are you suppose to lube the seat or oring that seals the 2 halves of the valve (the big one that sits on the back half)? I did not because I could not find anywhere in the manual that says to lube it. Thanks for any help and your time.

[phantomhitman]

awwww....come on. help a noob out by answering this simple question.

[redlaser666]

The seat could have been upsidedown and that is what probably caused your leak. It doesnt need a break-in.

Oil never hurts in a mag, so go ahead and oil anything you feel should be oiled.

[Branchvillian]

Yeh, mags love oil.

[athomas]

Actually, you can over oil a mag. If there is too much oil on the o-rings, they can leak. I find that if I over-oil my emag, it will leak out the back like this. I have had to take the back half of the valve and clean the excess oil off the reg seat in the past.