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Feinwerkbau Support in the US?
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 6:51 pm
by brent375hh
The FWB P8x intrigues me. Upon casual looking, there are many places to purchase, but I am coming up short on parts and service centers that are factory authorized . I am spoiled by the excellent parts availability for Steyr, and to have them in my mailbox in 3 days.
Does the same situation exist for Feinwerkbau, but I just don't know where it is? Any firsthand positive experiences out there?
Re: Feinwerkbau Support in the US?
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 8:10 pm
by Rover
Did you ask Pilk, our host?
Re: Feinwerkbau Support in the US?
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 8:27 pm
by Nevergiveup
I asked this question to Feinwerkbrau. This was their response:
Below you will find our representatives in the USA which you can contact for the purchase and for the service of the air pistol model P 8X.
George and Debbie Brenzovich,
22301 Texas 20, Fort Hancock,
Texas 79839
USA
Phone/Fax: 915-764-2030
Cell : 915 204 7977
e-mail:
gunchamp@aol.com
web: www. brenzovich.com
Pyramyd Air
5135 Naiman Parkway
Solon, Ohio – 44139
USA
Phone: 216 896 0893 232
Fax 216 896 0896
Email:
sales@pyramidair.com
Champion’s Choice
201 International Blvd.
La Vergne, TN 370086
tel. 001/615 793 4066
fax. 001/615 793 4070
sales@champchoice.com
www.champchoice.com
Champion’s Choice outsources the repairs to Pilkington Competition. I haven’t followed up on the rest.
Re: Feinwerkbau Support in the US?
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 8:40 pm
by atomicgale
Nevergiveup wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 8:27 pm
Champion’s Choice outsources the repairs to Pilkington Competition. I haven’t followed up on the rest.
There's a
HUGE reason for above statement: their names are Scott, Jennifer, and Buck.
Re: Feinwerkbau Support in the US?
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 9:14 pm
by brent375hh
atomicgale wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 8:40 pm
Nevergiveup wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 8:27 pm
Champion’s Choice outsources the repairs to Pilkington Competition. I haven’t followed up on the rest.
There's a
HUGE reason for above statement: their names are Scott, Jennifer, and Buck.
Thanks. I had no idea!
Re: Feinwerkbau Support in the US?
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 10:23 pm
by RyanA
Can't say enough good things about Pilkington Competition(
http://www.pilkguns.com/), our hosts, in terms of service and sales for those of us in the USA. These days, we tend to look for everything on the web and do things without talking to a person, but a quick and easy call to Jennifer at Pilk can save you hours or days of web-paralysis trying to find what you are looking for related to precision air products or maintenance/repair. Give them a try, you won't be disappointed.
-RyanA - 20 year customer
Phone: 931-924-3400
Re: Feinwerkbau Support in the US?
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 10:41 pm
by spektr
Feinwerkbau honors their dealer contracts and sent you their entire dealer list. With the exception of Pyramid, who I have no experience, all are gold plated. I use them for different things and none has failed me.....
Honestly, the servicing of FWB products should not be of concern.... There is always the caveat that the little bits like alternate front sights should be bought before they are sold out..... But that goes for everybody.,
Re: Feinwerkbau Support in the US?
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2021 1:11 am
by McMadCow
Also, maybe I got the exceptional example, but in the 7 years I've owned my P44, and an estimated 30k shots through it, the only thing I've done is new seals. So I wouldn't be too worried about finding parts for constant repairs.
Re: Feinwerkbau Support in the US?
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:59 am
by Ramon OP
I wrote a review of the Feinwerkbau P8X, it may be interesting for you:
https://www.olympicpistol.com/feinwerkb ... ol-review/
Re: Feinwerkbau Support in the US?
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:31 pm
by Azmodan
the pictures are no longer loading in the article :/
Re: Feinwerkbau Support in the US?
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:30 am
by Ramon OP
Azmodan wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:31 pm
the pictures are no longer loading in the article :/
They load on my phone. Can you please retry? It may have been a temporary glitch. There are a lot of pictures, so it should take a while to see all of them
Re: Feinwerkbau Support in the US?
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 8:16 am
by -TT-
No pictures visible here either, on phone or on several desktop browsers. After scraping the image URLs, they can be opened by navigating directly, so it appears to be some sort of blocked or broken referral. Does Wordpress require the user to accept all cookies perhaps?
Re: Feinwerkbau Support in the US?
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 2:31 pm
by Ramon OP
Not that I know of. The servers are in the USA, but content is delivered worldwide via Cloudflare's CDN. Everyone should be able to see the pics and other content of public posts. I'll look into it asap, but now it is time to go to bed.
Can you send me or share here a screenshot of what you see? Any error messages?
Enjoy the weekend y'all
Re: Feinwerkbau Support in the US?
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 4:23 pm
by -TT-
Ramon OP wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 2:31 pm
Can you send me or share here a screenshot of what you see? Any error messages?
Large white spaces are shown where pictures should be. Sometimes, with borders showing, but generally not. All the way down the page. No errors. Firefox desktop in this case.
- Screenshot 2021-04-09 172040.jpg (23.73 KiB) Viewed 3944 times
If I right click the blank space below "improve your shooting" and "copy image location", it comes back as
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data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Which is weird.
OTOH if I drill down into the page source and copy the photo URL from the img element's data-src kv pair, it displays when pasted into the address bar.
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<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-src="https://i2.wp.com/www.olympicpistol.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Feinwerkbau-P8X-Review.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1" alt="" class="wp-image-1474 lazyload" data-srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.olympicpistol.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Feinwerkbau-P8X-Review.jpg?w=1080&ssl=1 1080w, https://i2.wp.com/www.olympicpistol.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Feinwerkbau-P8X-Review.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1 300w, https://i2.wp.com/www.olympicpistol.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Feinwerkbau-P8X-Review.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&ssl=1 1024w, https://i2.wp.com/www.olympicpistol.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Feinwerkbau-P8X-Review.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 150w, https://i2.wp.com/www.olympicpistol.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Feinwerkbau-P8X-Review.jpg?resize=768%2C768&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" width="1080" height="1080">
Does this page need some special javascript or something?
Re: Feinwerkbau Support in the US?
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 9:05 am
by Ramon OP
Thanks a lot for the extra info. Digging into it and looking for help.
Re: Feinwerkbau Support in the US?
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 9:13 am
by Ramon OP
It should be fixed now.
The issue was with the Siteground Supercacher plugin and the javascript optimization options, which are now deactivated.
Thanks to @ebinnion for the solution!
Re: Feinwerkbau Support in the US?
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 9:32 am
by -TT-
Ramon OP wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 9:13 am
It should be fixed now.
Indeed yes! I'll read it soon, thanks.