I work in a shop that's a new Mares dealer, and I've rebuilt probably 30 MR22/V32s. Help me to see if I have the HP seat/poppet chronology correct:
1. The original poppet was all-metal and had a tapered conical protrusion on the face that contacts the seat. The original seat was a soft material that sealed up to the conical protrusion on the poppet.
2. Here's where I'm hazy-- Mares changed the seat to a metal seat with a conical opening (just like most other manufacturers) but with a duller edge than the typical knife-edged seat. The poppet itself was a clear plastic material and the stem of the poppet was uncoated metal. I may be wrong here, but I think I'm right--that this was the first modified poppet they came up with.
3. The latest modification is the trimaterial poppet/hard seat which seems to work quite well. That poppet has the black-coated stem and grey-colored plastic face. Other than the coated stem, it's extremely similar in appearance to the poppets in paragraph 2. From what I can tell the seat is identical to the seat described in 2 above.
Am I correct in this timeline here?
1. The original poppet was all-metal and had a tapered conical protrusion on the face that contacts the seat. The original seat was a soft material that sealed up to the conical protrusion on the poppet.
2. Here's where I'm hazy-- Mares changed the seat to a metal seat with a conical opening (just like most other manufacturers) but with a duller edge than the typical knife-edged seat. The poppet itself was a clear plastic material and the stem of the poppet was uncoated metal. I may be wrong here, but I think I'm right--that this was the first modified poppet they came up with.
3. The latest modification is the trimaterial poppet/hard seat which seems to work quite well. That poppet has the black-coated stem and grey-colored plastic face. Other than the coated stem, it's extremely similar in appearance to the poppets in paragraph 2. From what I can tell the seat is identical to the seat described in 2 above.
Am I correct in this timeline here?