Is it just me or has AGD's quality gone to crap

[BlackVCG]

The o-rings on the reg. valve pin do tend to lose their seal and cause the leak out the side hole more often on X-Valves than SS RT valves. I believe this is because the difference in the X-Valve being anodized and the SS RT valve not.

The simple fix is to put a bit of silicone grease, Dow33/55, etc. on the o-rings and reassembling the reg. valve pin.

But as Muzikman said, the more things you add to your gun (ULT, LX, etc.) the more variables you have and things to mess around with to get working properly.

Go buy a cocker brand new out of the box and tell me it works perfectly.

[REDRT]

The o-rings on the reg. valve pin do tend to lose their seal and cause the leak out the side hole more often on X-Valves than SS RT valves. I believe this is because the difference in the X-Valve being anodized and the SS RT valve not.

The simple fix is to put a bit of silicone grease, Dow33/55, etc. on the o-rings and reassembling the reg. valve pin.

That is interesting info. Aarons Xvalve has developed a slight leak. It isn't the lvl10 or the on/off. Sound like it is coming from the side. I bet it just might be what your talking about. We'll have too check this out.
The classic rt was bought new in 97 the only thing different now as far as the valve it has lvl10, and a new reg piston assm. The rest of the orings have never been rpl or have ever failed. It has been just a rock solid marker for me.

[Lohman446]

good point RT, and I know that the Xvalve is an aluminum version of the retro, my point is that from that time till now, the quality has changed, don't know exactly when but it did.

Anyone else think the degradation of quality came about the point that they switched to aluminum for major components?

[REDRT]

Anyone else think the degradation of quality came about the point that they switched to aluminum for major components?

That is how I see it. But one of the biggest grips with mags was they're heavy, boo hoo! So what was AGD to do? Went to aluminum. People still think they are heavy when really they're not. As far as the valves go we didn't gain much. I wish we could have different colored SS valves. Titainium would be cool, but could you imagin the cost of that! Not mention the difficulty in producing it.

[peewee]

[hitech]

...I don't see it holding up like the SS valves. For a couple of oz's and some different colors I don't see the need to rpl the emag valve.

I don't have an XValve on my eMag. And it's not because of the cost...

[paint magnet]

To quote Craig Palmer,

"The closer we time the marker to the edge, the easier it can fall off and cause a malfunction."

and

"The more you mess with it, the more you will have to mess with it."