Mac 33a-aaa-rduj-0bl

[imped4now]

Does anyone have a source for these or any laying around before I call MAC and start down that wormhole? This is the factory solenoid for the Regency Crome.

5 VDC, 4W, 100-200 psi range.

Google has been of little help.

[Jordan]

Check airsoldier.com, he seems to have a source for oddball solenoids and has a bunch listed on there as well.

I think rawbutter has a source for MAC noids as well.

[imped4now]

That was one of my first searches - nope.

[rawbutter]

This is probably more info than you need, but I'm gonna share it all here just in case someone else has a similar question in the future.

The best source I've found for MAC solenoids is Hartfiel Automation. If you go to their contact page and send them an email or call them, they might be able to help you out. Just be sure you're clear from the start that you're interesting in a replacement solenoid for a paintball marker, and have as much information ready about the solenoid as possible (voltage, wattage, psi range, size, wire connector types, etc.).

This is not an easy solution, mind you. Hartfiel has minimum orders (about $60 IIRC), so you might need to order more solenoids than you need and sell the extras on eBay or something. Also, they usually don't have those solenoids in stock, so you'll probably have to wait for them to ship from the manufacturer to Hartfiel to you, which can take 3 or 4 months.

Worst of all, a lot of paintball-specific solenoids are protected by patents. Even though MAC actually made the solenoids, and even though they probably could make more to sell to you, they're not legally allowed to do that. If you're looking for an old PE solenoid for an Ego 7, for instance, they can't sell you one. You'd have to instead go directly to PE and try to get them to order one for you, which probably isn't going to happen. (I've tried.) It doesn't make economical sense for them to do that, sadly.

So, chances are you won't be able to buy an exact replacement for what you want. Instead, you'll have to look at some catalogs, wade through some tables, and try to find something that's similar enough to work. Then you might need to do some custom work and soldering to get everything to fit inside the marker frame. If you want to see an example of this, Caylegeorge did a great job repairing an old Ego 7 with a new, slightly different solenoid. You can read his thread here.

It's a lot of work to do all this, obviously. Personally I think it can be worth it to get an old marker working again, especially if the alternative is to just throw the whole thing away, which seems wasteful. But some people simply don't have the time or experience needed to pull it off. At that point, it's perhaps better off to donate the gun to someone else who might be able to bring it back from the dead.

[Brokeass_baller]

Damn. This is really good information.