duane, thank you for the offer but i am sure i can fine the materials local to do a rebuild! appreciated though!
hope you did not take the topic as product bashing, was not meant to be taken that way, but only to find out if there was something wrong with the unit!
today i took the piece to work and looked at it with a jewlers eye and noticed that there was a rather large knick in the ball seating surface, so a small fix and now all better!
thanks again for your input guys!!
todd