yeah the top circle looks like the rubbers been pushed in/sunk in after splitting
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Can you get a photo of the t piece while you have it that far apart?
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Looks like new cylinder head time. 
I would have to do it tomorrow, I’m at work ATM, but yeah I can get some more pics with it separated for battery installation
Look at my edited pic of the bottom red circle. Looks like IB might be impacting off centre the nozzle rubber. What do you think 
Either way the seller should have picked up there is a problem there and rectified it first go around. Disappointing to say the least.
This was StingOpsTactical, yeah?
I’d definitely be calling them out on it. This may have been an OOTB issue, but it looks like they didn’t do any real investigation when you took it back to them the first time under warranty.
Honestly, if you were closer I’d be more than happy to help you sort it out. Just try not to let it sour you on the hobby, a frustrating experience like this might do that.
Stick at it, it’s worth it. What seems a bit beyond you now will get easier with a little practice. Then things like gear swaps, upgrades and mods won’t be things you dread… the’ll be tasks you actually enjoy. 
yeah @StingOpsTactical is where I bought it.
it’s just frustrating because I already paid to ship it to them for it to be serviced /inspected and then paid to have it shipped back so I’m not impressed at all and I should not have to pay to ship it back there again or for return shipping after it gets looked at again under warranty when it was already sent back for the issue and wasn’t rectified when I sent it back in the first place
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No you should not have to pay postage as nothing has changed. It’s on the seller. Contact them. Best of luck.
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got some more pics, hopefully they’re a lot clearer, definitely missing half an O ring/seal at the front
it’s only been taken out of the box and shot by me maybe 5 separate times, once by @stingforcetactical never taken to a field or outside of my house, just setup, loaded, shot out the back door at a target through the chrono
as far as I can tell, the t piece is in tact, no visible damage, no movement/wobble in the t piece,
Yes that’s a goner in the front of gearbox. This 
does also look not right to me. How is the nozzle rubber meant to seal against that. Look at the ID it’s not centered.
I haven’t had hands on with one of these. I’m saying it is really not right. I noticed the half moon imprint on the nozzle rubber in your prior posts.
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Whatever’s going on there it definitely ain’t right. Broken part right there.
Maybe it’s supposed to centralise the nozzle, dunno… is it rubber? Almost looks like alloy. I’ve never seen that arrangement before.
Get 'em on the Al Capone, send them the photos. If they tell you anything other than send it back postage free and free fix tell them to get a big black dog up 'em.
that’s not a straight pic pointing straight down the fronter barrel,
the when installing the battery, the MP40 separates into two parts, when putting it back together you have to line the nozzle up with the t piece slot carefully, which I have been,
I don’t think the issues with the t piece, I think its that perished/split o ring on the cylinder and nozzle tips not far off it from the feel of it
A is the direction of gels fired
B is where the t piece meets the nozzle, backing onto where that buggered O ring is so the airseal will be shite and the compression inconsistent
At least you found the issue… good on ya.
Maybe you should ask for a tech position down at StingOps… you diagnosed that better than they did.
Now all you have to do is get them to honour their warranty and fix it properly this time.
just having it working properly would be nice
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Always helps lotz of expetertz as need moar charactaraz
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Am I missing something here…or are we not just seeing the end of the tappet plate through the hole in the front of the gearbox?
I have been struggling to see anything broken or missing throughout this whole thread, which has had me quite confused
My thoughts are that after studying the pics, the nozzle isn’t long enough to reach the t-piece seal… so possibly try the old o-ring trick to either extend the nozzle rubber or fit inside the t-piece and see what happens
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A is the O ring/rubber grommet still in tact
B is where the broken O ring/grommet is missing
it appears to me whatever that O ring/grommet is, is degraded/perished and half of it has broken off requiring replacement, the nozzle too also feels perished and dodgey
as far as I can tell nothing else is broken, but I’m far from an expert 
Yea I had to blow the pics up and zoom in on a 40" screen to see what I have commented on.
Or maybe I drank too many beers last weekend.
Be one of the two @DocBob 
How could the shop miss a broken tappet 
plain as daylight. Why I started looking at other possibilities. Over to you captn 
Hang on… I just realised… Docbob’s onto it.
@shadow187 What you’re looking at there is the tappet plate as it slots into the groove of the nozzle from underneath. It’s not broken, it’s semicircular. Like this one.
That’s the thing you’re thinking is broken, but it ain’t.
So hard fault finding with photos
Yep you’re on to it, but hard to tell from pics as you say I blew it up heaps and zoomed in to try help shadow.
Be hard to see on a mobile phone if that’s all you got and the thing about been to the shop and back. Surely they would have picked up a broken tappet. Any decent shop anyway. It’s not that.
Miss alignment is my thoughts from what I see and I’m maybe really wrong. The nozzle rubber is fkd already.
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