Reverse Minimag valve

[Chris Nearchos]

Take some pictures with the camera farther away from the valve so that they are in focus so that we can get a better view of the insides.

once it gets through the mail I'll get some better pics of it.
-Chris

[paint magnet]

The star wouldn't help here for a valve that's been physically damaged by something other than regular use. The warrantee is only for malfunctions and manufacturers defects.

Take some pictures with the camera farther away from the valve so that they are in focus so that we can get a better view of the insides.

I know, I was kidding. Weren't all reverse MM valves made before the stars were added anyway?

[211]

The fields original building burned to the ground about 15 years ago
Ive been helping build a new field so I got to dig through the parts bin

If Id had a classic valve around I think I would have tried to get it going, if theres any gun that can take that and keep going Id say its a Mag

The pics are bad, I havent done any real photo work since I got kicked out of the adult film industry.......j/k
its not as bad as it looks, the outside actually started to clean up with just a little rubbing, a polish would fix it up nice, it would just loose the Minimag logo and the matching serials

Good luck Chris, and we all want to see pics when you get it going

[Chris Nearchos]

well...

well after two days of fighting it, I was finally able to get the on/off out of the darn sucker. It was deffintly melted in there good. it was even melted far into the airflow from the reg to the front half........that was the hard part of cleaning out.

Now Its on to smoothing and detial cleaning. then It will get one heck of a polish job.



but i want to note two things though from heating the valve up and having a few teeth marks in it from one of my tools.

* when heating it up, it turned a yellowish color. Not something I am familiar to seeing stainless steel do.

* It is now sitting as a "bronzish" color now that it has cooled of.

* from the teeth marks I noticed that the coloring wasnt just from the top layer being heated up. the color is through the metal.



I dont understand that because I am use to seeing SS turn like blue/purpleish. sometimes maybe a green in it......but not bronzish.


I will post pictures up later when i get my battery in for the camera.
-Chris

[Beemer]

Spark it and see what color it does. Hmmmmmm Long lost TI valve maybe.

[Chris Nearchos]

but it isnt even close to the serial number selection that Tom gave out. Also, it is a reverse minimag valve....not a standard classic valve as Tom said. So it doesnt lead me to believe that it is one of those lost valves.

serial number is: MM07908


Tom, maybe you can help me out here before i go tearing this valve up.


-Chris