Quote Originally Posted by ggggr View Post
If you are not an engineer, I suppose the easiest way of sleeving is to us some Ptfe rod or similar to make a breech seal and open up the hole a bit at a time.
I also had the leaking cylinder thing with a hawk. I had to unscrew the cylinder end and jaws and use loctite to sort it. When chronoed for me, that had gone up from about 6.5 to 8.8ft lb.
Hi Guy

I doubt that PTFE would last very long as the hot air would erode it.

I have been told that you can buy 4mm OD microbore brass pipe on the bay, this could be cut to length and worked in an electric drill to size it.

I normally form the chamfered lead in by simply spinning the brass sleeve up and putting a Stanly knife blade up it --- works well.


I wonder if the leaking Hawks could be sorted the same way as I did my HW35, with a little loctite 271 forced into the joint from inside the cylinder ?




All the best Mick