This is by far the best video about disassembly FX Maverick that I have had the opportunity to see on the internet, much better than the video by Ernest R., I also watched the marvelous Sub12 Airgunners video - FX AMP Maverick reg rebuild, I like his videos so much !
Thank you for demonstrating the inner structure of Maverick. I think it is easy to disassembly, but very difficult to assemble, because you must adjust the position of the mount and the rear to keep them in the same line. You are an expert, so I think you can handle it.
Thanks, its not that hard but there is an order in which everything has to go back together, and a few measurements which we have to keep in mind. Thanks for watching.
I have the Maverick compact and changed the small bottle out for the 580cc bottle and added a Koi suppressor. During the removal of the bottle, it came lose with a loud bang and stripped of the complete bottle adapter. My FX was 1 month old at that point. It's best to de-gas the gun until there are a few bars of pressure left in the bottle. Even when the manual tells you that the bottle can removed while under pressure, it cannot . . . it will go wrong sooner or later. Sub12, Your take on this bottle adapter/connector is 100% correct. I had to buy a new bottle connector because it isn't covered by factory warranty. My humble opinion as a mechanical designer is that this bottle connector is a design flaw, period. FX should look at the number of threads on the Edgun Leshiy 2 bottle for instance, now THAT is what I call a secure connection. My first FX was an "independence". I couldn't help but notice the brittle, minimalist design, almost "flimsy". Yes it was a revolutionary air gun but it's build quality was weak. I sold the Independence after a few months. More then a decade later I decided to give FX a second chance and bought the Maverick. Nothing changed . . . I saw exactly the same thing, flimsy design, very weak cocking meganism, especially when you add a heavier spring/slug power kit. Not to mention the bottle adapter. It's quite remarkable when you think about it . . . FX is the only brand that manages to put out pretty "weak" airguns for top dollar and then (to make it better) they sell lot's of highly priced aftermarket parts that should have been on the gun in the first place and call it tuning or personalizing your gun. Maybe it's time for FX to stop innovating for a while and upgrade their existing air gun line. I have/had almost every known brand airgun at some point in my life but FX (as much a I love the Maverick for it's accuracy) just isn't up to par (quality wise) with other guns that are half the price.
Really enjoyable video once again bud clear detailed and absolutely zero waffle I definitely see a all expenses payed trip to Sweden on the cards for you mate don't know how many fx trained technicians we have in England but you could definitely teach them a thing or two 😁👍 The maverick for me was a grower, initially when I first saw it it looked like a mash of parts and thought it wasn't gonna be a production rifle 😐 I remember saying to someone it looks like a wildimpactline or dreamcatimpact 😆 However it's definitely grown on me and it may be a combination of existing part but you can't deny the genius of combining them parts and innovation, obviously them savings in manufacturer have been passed on and have made this alot of rifle for the money and its good a company as big as FX is passing that on when they could have just charged more and people would have still paid it 🙂 All that said an impact does looks alot easier to work on 😄 Cheers look forward to the next one 👌 atb
Thanks, I appreciate the support, and sorry for the late reply, still not sure on the maverick, its not that comfortable to shoulder and the mechanics of the rifle really are not that impressive, A bit more tinkering to do if I am honest but I much prefer both the impact and the dreamtac over the maverick. No matter if you like FX or hate them you can't deny that they are the current market leaders, and they are making some nice rifles at the moment, but for me at least the maverick is not a outstanding rifle. Thanks for watching.
@@sub12airgunners maybe its the sub 12 ft. lbs. that you don't like about it, it was designed for power so the uk market wasn't even an afterthought for FX on this rifle. That being said if you were sending .30 slugs 120 yards at 960 fps down range at my club in the US, out of my maverick id say you'd be having some fun, great video by the way keep up the good work
Thanks, I am not sponsored by anyone and its hard to find an objective review, so when i look for a review i try and find someone that points out the bad stuff, rather than just gush about all the good features. Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching.
Thank you for taking the time to make this video. Very much appreciated. If you do happen to get your hands on a impact mk3 I do hope you make a similar strip down guide.
Nice video…can someone tell me is it really necessary to take the trigger group and hammer out ?? If you are just resealing the gun can you still get the valve pin and seat out or does that trigger group need to come apart ? Thanks.
Hi Excellent video , appreciate your knowledge and it helps a lot, i am facing an issue with maverick there is a leakage of air from the vent hole in the plenum cylinder (opposite side of the 2nd regulator), and as soon as i put the bottle the air leakage starts from this hole . Any advice is welcome for a fix and which which of the O rings may have been busted, thanx
Excellent video, packed with useful information. Better than the ones from Ernest. Thank you for sharing all this with us! Can't wait to see the reassembly video! BTW, are those tools (valve extractor, reg extractor) commercially available?
I sell the reg puller on Ebay along with a number of o rings, link below, the valve puller is just a quick thing I knocked up as a prototype, and its not that common to need to remove the valve seat but ill look into making some. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/373562171758?hash=item56fa0a616e:g:J5EAAOSwNwpgWKA7
Hi, do you know what holds the trigger and the trigger linkage (the silver thing) together? Mine came loose and doesn't work anymore. Is it just a pin?
May I ask what difference there is in between the original version of the maverick and the FAC- modell you are referingg to? Could it be like you are with some other ”corrections ” done to the rifle, get a lot more speed and muzzle energy out of it? If there is any instructionfilms on how too do just that I would like to know where to find those films. If there is’nt, can tou please make one? As I’ve just ordered a maverick VP where I live I would like it to have more speed and muzzle energy to be able to do some pestcontroll at a little longer distances. Thanks by the way for very good instructions on Yoytube.
As a word of caution to new Maverick buyers, the screw in the side of the hammer spring adjuster on mine came fully out after about 40 shots out of the box. The primary symptom was the shots getting weaker and weaker. Locktite now holds the answer
Strange, was it an FAC rifle? There should be a delrin plug in the bottom of the locking screw in the side, providing a little bit of tension on the adjuster screw but also upward pressure on the locking screw stopping it from vibrating loose. But i guess it wasn't tightened from the factory properly, just had a look at mine and its still tight, but a good tip for other people, and I might loctite mine just in case. Thanks for watching.
@@sub12airgunners was U.K. sub12 just hadn’t been tightened I recon plus trigger took ages to get set up nicely. Have had niggles with all my fxs’ out of the box but once sorted they are well worth the minor annoyances.
Is there something that can be done to tighten those loose threads you mentioned? Where the bottle is attached. Was it this specific rifle that has this or is it all FX rifles with a bottle?
My FX has this problem as well. The second time I detached my bottle to tune the Huma reg, it stripped the bottle adapter with a loud bang. The treads are simply too short and (like Huma-Air told me as well) we don't understand why this part is made of alloy. FX is very innovative but kind of flimsy here and there compared to other much cheaper air guns. The cocking mechnism is so smooth they say . . . well I disagree. It's grindy althoug I frequently clean it and grease it with sillicone grease. The pin that connects the lever to the rest of the mechanism is very thin and falls out. It becomes even worse when you add the slug powerkit, you can feel that FX is not build for that. Not to mention when you add the heavier spring. I can imagine that on the sub 12 fpe units these problems do not occure because the cocking mechanism is not under stress and cicles smoothly. I don't know about the Impact, but I think Matt Dubber's Compact is not the same as the production rifles. Although the Maverick is an awesome piece of kit, certain parts really need to be redesigned and made beefier. Maverick owners should get these redesigned items for free. But that's my 5 cts.
Hi no the bottle adaptor is aluminium and the load on the treads is very high when screwing the bottle on i would only remove and refit if the pressure is low in the bottle
@@markjohnson2166 A stainless steel bottle adapter is the only way to go. This doesn't have to be a very expensive upgrade for FX when mass produced. They should make the treads longer as well so the bottle can fed straight without the inevitable whobble. I am in contact with FX since a few weeks about this problem because I got injured when the bottle stripped the alloy bottle adapter and their first responce was as we know from the IT business "a user fault". They NEVER had this problem. It's sad that you first have to convince a manufacturer that this is NOT a user error, that I know how to align and feed the bottle straight. But there comes a point when the valve angages and that's where things can go wrong. It's almost impossible to keep the bottle perfectly straight while turning under high pressure. You can never make this design flaw into a user error, it's a design error. The only thing you can do is degass the gun completely because it also happens at 100 bar. Most people leave their guns as they left the factory, but if you do a lot of tuning, different slugs, barrels etc . . . stay away from the Impact. And yes, there are always people that say they detach the bottle on a weekly basis and never had a problem. Well . . . then they are lucky or full of shit 😉
Sorry for the late reply, I have been thinking about this for a little while now, and I can't whole heartedly recommend it, if you like the shape and design of the rifle go for it, but given the choice I would much rather have a Dreamline, or if you prefer the bullpup sizing you may be better of with the Impact. It just doesn't feel as well made or as nice to operate as the other rifles. Thanks for watching.
Got my new cheek piece from Sportsman yesterday. Took a month but I've been using it without till now. Fitted the new cheek piece this morning and the mag works perfectly, so does my preferred mag from CARM. Have you got yours yet?
Not yet still waiting, it better work if I am honest, I am getting a little bored of waiting, and the cold aluminum block isn't that comfy, but its good your one works, so mine should be here soon. Thanks for watching.
@@sub12airgunners I'd chase them if I was you. I did and low and behold it arrived 2 days later. You can always take out the front screw on your current cheek piece and use it. It just allows the cheek piece to slide forward slight with the mag but mean no cold Ali on your cheek.
FX bottle attachment (steel and aluminium threads working against each other) seems to be tenuous at best and disastrous at worst (at least the bottle valves seem reliable) 😉
A poor choice of materials for a thread that takes so much load, especially when they advertise the removable bottle. once the rifles back together and I am happy, I certainly wont be taking the bottle off anytime soon. Thanks for watching.
Hello sir I have problem wit my maverick 177 compact I tried shooting 177 knockout slug n I don't know why the slug stuck in the liner all the times if I shoot Pellet no problem at all
Is it Sub 12? if so its possible that the slugs are too tight in the liner causing them to get stuck when firing, slugs need much more of a puff of air to get them moving. Also check your breach seal, if its leaking it may allow air to pass back instead of pushing the pellet. Thanks for watching
I think the bottle adapter/connector is a design flaw. It's just to week, too few threads which makes the connection unstable and the made a "beginners mistake" by using alloy threads on the steel treads from the botte. It's well a well known fact that you never use alloy and steel as a connection when there's high pressure involved. I already stripped one completely when the gun was a few weeks old. The bottle just flew off. "User error" is what you get . . . believe me, this was not a user error. Now my second bottle adapter is beginning to strip (threads are bend) after I removed the bottle a few times to set my Huma Reg. I even lowered my bottle pressure to 100 bar for less stress. I know how to thread and allign these bottles and I know there are people that claim they never had a problem, but as these guns get older, the problem will present itself more and more. Most people never take the bottle off and shoot it using factory settings. I think that using teflon could make things even worse because this makes the fastening and loosening more difficult. Adding teflon means you need more force to screw the bottle on or take it off which results en even more wobble. Huma Air also confirmed this bottle connector is not designed the way it should. The manual sais you can take the bottle on and screw it off under pressure, this is NOT TRUE. The only safe way (in the long run) is to depressurize the Maverick/Dreamline completely before you take the bottle off. Better would be a stainless steel adapter with longer threads so the bottle get stabilized before it presses in the valve.
@@sub12airgunners Find them and ordered them Thanks a million. Can I ask a personal question? I am about to buy a new FX and wounder if you think the Impact is worth the extra money compare to Maverick. I can´t decide. I will use it as an license rifle for competitions and some hunting
@@lassesarnhult9283 I would definitely go for the impact, if you can afford it, much better built rifle and in my opinion. Lots of upgrades and places to go with the Impact, not so much with the maverick. Thanks for watching.
@@sub12airgunners Thanks again and I really love your videos. I just have to start saving some money then lol do you think that the prize will go down as for maverick?
@@lassesarnhult9283 Prices very rarely go down unfortunately, some retailers have sales when a new model is coming out but apart from that I doubt the price will fall. Thanks for watching.
I used all the ones I bought, they sell them on Aliexpress but the crafty buggers have doubled the price since the last time I looked, should have bought some more. link below. (you want the 1/8 bsp) www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002053621959.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.2a5373b0oMAMJC&algo_pvid=c9bf2539-81a8-4c36-acae-72c026b90c7d&algo_expid=c9bf2539-81a8-4c36-acae-72c026b90c7d-0&btsid=0b0a187916199907047313926e132c&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_,searchweb201603_
You can get it via ebay, link below or for international shipping you can find it on Bagnall and Kirkwood. Thanks for watching www.ebay.co.uk/itm/374055444424 spares.bagnallandkirkwood.co.uk/product/fx-regulator-o-ring-service-kit-including-witches-hat-and-piston-removal-tools/
Hi Loving the videos, keep them coming. I wasn't worried until someone mentioned the hiss I have on my maverick, does this sound normal? cheers ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8TJcLL8QNCI.html
