I have always been fascinated by the Helix, it is a vary cool gun. I always carry it as a secondary. Even though it is scratched up, with a stiff pump, and one of its nozzles has been jammed on the narrowest setting even before I traded my XP 310 to a friend for it. But it never failed me, until it broke.
I was preparing for a short one on one battle with my friend Luke. I was balancing several guns in my hand wile trying to re-lock my water gun chest, when I dropped my Helix. It wouldn’t fire after that, so I put it aside until after my friend left.
Later, after some tests, I realized that the barrels still rotated, but only air came out, and no water was drawn in from the reservoir. This led me to believe that it was a problem with a valve. I took it apart, after a year in my friend’s backyard, some screws were rusted, but I only had to drill out one of them. After I got it apart the rest was fairly easy. Except the spinning mechanism, all the other parts just came out, being only held in place only by the casing. I got the valve assembly out, this was really glued together, and I ran it under hot water for several minutes and still couldn’t get it apart. I tried blowing into all 3 openings, (to bad I didn’t take photos) than went out side and gamed the hose up to them, full blast. I think the problem was a stuck valve because at first it didn’t go through the pipes, than suddenly started going through, I guess the water pressure must have unjammed the valve. I lubricated it and reassembled it. Now it’s good as new,
as new as a gun that spent a year in my friends sandy backyard can get anyway.Oh ya and thank you isoaker for making this section!
