Post by Modski66 on Jul 30, 2022 22:06:05 GMT
My Sig Sauer X5 has always been something of a disappointment, it really didn't pack any kind of punch for such a large heavy pistol.
The general view online seems to be similar, but I recently found a thread on a US site where someone had altered various things and got some definite improvements. One of them was to increase the 1mm bore of the capsule piercing spike, but I found that there was no scope to do it on mine, so I made a new one with a 2mm bore.
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Makes a nice big hole for good gas flow!
The other alteration I made was to take half a mm off the front end of the valve spindle to allow it to move forward a bit more so the seat would open a bit further and allow more gas through.
And the result? Naff all difference. ðĄ
One other suggestion from the guy was to fit a stronger hammer spring. To get to it required an almost complete strip down. The spring is quite unusual in that it is a small coil spring totally contained inside the body of the hammer.
Rather than fit a new spring (that I didn't actually have anyway) I added a couple of millimeters of pre-load.
And the result? BANG! BANG! BANG! With a very nice kick. ððð
Can't wait to try it out over a reasonable distance now, but accuracy at around eight feet was not particularly good. ð
Maybe I need to work on my hold... ðĪŠ
The general view online seems to be similar, but I recently found a thread on a US site where someone had altered various things and got some definite improvements. One of them was to increase the 1mm bore of the capsule piercing spike, but I found that there was no scope to do it on mine, so I made a new one with a 2mm bore.
[/urlMakes a nice big hole for good gas flow!
The other alteration I made was to take half a mm off the front end of the valve spindle to allow it to move forward a bit more so the seat would open a bit further and allow more gas through.
And the result? Naff all difference. ðĄ
One other suggestion from the guy was to fit a stronger hammer spring. To get to it required an almost complete strip down. The spring is quite unusual in that it is a small coil spring totally contained inside the body of the hammer.
Rather than fit a new spring (that I didn't actually have anyway) I added a couple of millimeters of pre-load.
And the result? BANG! BANG! BANG! With a very nice kick. ððð
Can't wait to try it out over a reasonable distance now, but accuracy at around eight feet was not particularly good. ð
Maybe I need to work on my hold... ðĪŠ
