interesting problem

[shady_lizard]

i just bought a brand new Goldmember bolt for my new (to me) Gen 2. i used it for one practice and a xball tourney. near the end of our first match, the bolt gets stuck forward and it starts leaking. after the end of the match, i pull the bolt only to discover that the bolt is pretty much cracked in half where the middle oring is. there is also excessive wear on one small section on the tip of the bolt.

the question i have is: did i just get a bad bolt or is the body somehow messed up, cause the previous owner also had the stock bolt break and there is anno wear in one section on the bottom of the breach. other than the bolt breaking, everything seemed normal in terms of pressure and performance (lpr at ~85psi, chrono at 285 +-3, dwell at 10, ~1200 shots on a 68/45 filled to 4k, and no kick).

[NYGuardians capt.]

its happened before..... look around

[Quest Owner]

send it to fep they will hook u up wit a new one ..........they made a bad batch that kinda got messed up because they weren thick enough

[minionkid256]

happened to my teammate durring a tourny, he's on his 3rd one, luckily he is realy good at replacing his bolt and got his stock one back in, in under 2 min, and we only had a 3 min break.
FEP makes good stuff and will give you a brand new one.

[disturbed2008]

doesnt take that long to replace the bolt. takes me two minutes too whipe my bolt off and relube it and put it back in

[shady_lizard]

i'm assuming that since i ordered directly from FEP about 2 and a half weeks ago that they would have fixed/gotten rid of any bad batches of bolts.

i guess i'm also curious as to whether the stress caused by the bolt digging into the breach caused the bolt to break (which means the body is messed up somehow) and created the anno wear on both the bolt and the breach. the only other alternative i can think of is that the bolt dug into the breach as a result of the bolt breaking.

[NYGuardians capt.]

i think your bolt might have rubed the breech and wat not when it broke, but if your that concerned send your whole gun into FEP and they will send it back good as new

[not2happy42]

same exact thing happened to me. send it in to fep

[XMAILMANX]

its always a good idea to carry the stock bolt with u just incase. I have'nt had and probs with my GM, but with a snatch-pin, i would take u seconds to swap bolts!! seen it done and done it.

[shady_lizard]

i would if i had the stock bolt :(

[shady_lizard]

pics:
breach wear (sorry about the flash and the blurriness)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/shady_lizard/DSCN1379.jpg
wear on bolt
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/shady_lizard/DSCN1375.jpg
crack in bolt
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/shady_lizard/DSCN1374.jpg

[Gailon]

Kinda hard to see, but it looks almst exactly like the wear I got when mine broke. Rich said don't worry.

Here's my thread and some pics...do they look like these?

http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?p=25543960#post25543960