I've got a mini-sniper here that I custom built and most days it works great- probably my second-favorite gun after my Phantom.
However, I've got a problem with it that rears its head if it stays gassed-up long enough on a hot day. I've got the reg sweet-spotted, or at least roughly so, so that it doesn't freeflow when the hammer's down, but after chronoing and playing a couple games I'll often find that gun is shooting slower and slower, and when I go to chrono it low and behold the velocity is somewhere around 150psi.
The first time this happened was at Spring Pump Event last year. I was running the Azodin regulator with the factory reg seat, so after reading about that regulator's reputation I chalked it up to a failing reg seat. So, I switched the reg to an old Diablo Wrath input reg I'd gotten with some other parts. A few months later, same story- the gun would chrono fine but then 2-3 hours later it was shooting way under velocity- presumably because the reg was failing and supplying way more pressure than the hammer was set up for. In the meantime I'd replaced the reg seat in the Azodin reg with a DYE Hyper 3 seat, as others had reccomended, and again the reg and gun seemed to be working fine...
...until this past Saturday when the same problem occurred.
I realize that none of these are exactly the gold standard for quality input regulators, and my first impulse is to throw a bunch of money at the problem and upgrade to an Inception reg for the build and assume that will fix it, but before I do I wanted to make sure there's not something else I could be overlooking. Is there any other rational reason why the gun would be doing this?
BTW, same paint, same barrel- it's not like I'm touching anything on the gun between readings, and the bolt I'm using is a WGP STO-type that's reversible top and bottom, so it's not like it got flipped upside down halfway through the day or something like that.
However, I've got a problem with it that rears its head if it stays gassed-up long enough on a hot day. I've got the reg sweet-spotted, or at least roughly so, so that it doesn't freeflow when the hammer's down, but after chronoing and playing a couple games I'll often find that gun is shooting slower and slower, and when I go to chrono it low and behold the velocity is somewhere around 150psi.
The first time this happened was at Spring Pump Event last year. I was running the Azodin regulator with the factory reg seat, so after reading about that regulator's reputation I chalked it up to a failing reg seat. So, I switched the reg to an old Diablo Wrath input reg I'd gotten with some other parts. A few months later, same story- the gun would chrono fine but then 2-3 hours later it was shooting way under velocity- presumably because the reg was failing and supplying way more pressure than the hammer was set up for. In the meantime I'd replaced the reg seat in the Azodin reg with a DYE Hyper 3 seat, as others had reccomended, and again the reg and gun seemed to be working fine...
...until this past Saturday when the same problem occurred.
I realize that none of these are exactly the gold standard for quality input regulators, and my first impulse is to throw a bunch of money at the problem and upgrade to an Inception reg for the build and assume that will fix it, but before I do I wanted to make sure there's not something else I could be overlooking. Is there any other rational reason why the gun would be doing this?
BTW, same paint, same barrel- it's not like I'm touching anything on the gun between readings, and the bolt I'm using is a WGP STO-type that's reversible top and bottom, so it's not like it got flipped upside down halfway through the day or something like that.
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