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[cerealkiller]

information dealing with the problem:
when you open up the titan, you will see 2 metal rods and the trigger as the firing system. one of the black metal rods is directly moved when you pull the trigger. I'll call it the pendulum rod, because it works like a pendulum when you pull the trigger. The other rod is straight and its the one that releases the air. The straight rod is pulled back by the pendulum rod.

introduction to the problem:
i find out my titan is leaking. So i take it apart with also taking off the triggers and everything. After some experiments i find out when i pump it up it doesn't leak, but when i screw in everything back in but not putting on the case, it does. I find out that the pendulum rod was somehow bent so that the long straight part of pendulum rod was too short, thus making the straight rod bend up. and when this happens, air leaks out of the place where the straight rod goes into the tank.

my stupidity:
i try to bend the rod back into shape, but it snaps.

point of this topic:
im not so sure of what to do because if i got another piece of metal rod, i dont really know how to bend it into the pendulum rod, and if i directly glue the trigger with the straight rod with a piece connecting the two it would still pull the straight rod down and out instead of straight out.

please give me some suggestions on to how i should do this. Oh yea and Drano if you are reading this, which you probably will, GO CHECK YOUR NERFHAVEN INBOX!!!

Edited by cerealkiller, 22 November 2004 - 01:53 AM.

[Ender]

Well you can attempt to bend a new piece; your hardware store should have bending pieces. These are metal arcs and such used for bending wire and pipe to different angels. I personally have not worked much with these but it might help, or try using a rod of similar thickness of the curve in the metal as a bending tool. Or you could always buy a new set and take it back with the defective one in it, a bit shady maybe. But if it didn’t work right in the first place, perhaps it should have been your first stop.

[Drano]

im a little confused as to which rod you snaped.
was it the rod that opperates the breech/exit valve ?
or your "pendulum" rod ?

if its your pendulum rod just take some coat hanger segment, and get 2 pliers and shape the rod into the shape you need.

[Diego]

Speaking of Titan problems, my missle barrel WILL NOT COME OUT. I remember reading a topic about this, but ive done all i can, and the thing wont budge.


--Diego