Rain X your collection of 30 barrels. Or blow hard?

[Pewpewpew]

So, I haven’t done it but have heard it works well to clear a broken ball. It’s not chapstick for your threads, but, has anyone tried it?

[RedLeaderSB]

Yes, not sure it does anything. I just do it to all my barrels when I get them. Clean dedicated swab and a drill.

[JohnB]

Na, just clean with water and swap at the field. If that worked long term, someone would repackage and sell it for $100 to paintballers and call it slicksuperlubeputtybutterhatergrease303

[Swedgin!!]

It couldn’t hurt could it? You could test it and do a write up on it.

[Pewpewpew]

Well, I think Master Sconni does a barrel treatment for an extra 1 million dollars. So, let’s see… Ceramic coating? rain x? Sand paper? Jizz load from a pro? What slicks em’ up and gets em’ shooting slick like Rick? I like cancer, teflon?Brasso? Riot’s chapstick?

[BrickHaus]

On the tippmann og forums one of the guys did extensive testing on this theory.

From the data I read back then. It works. I used to rain x my barrels extensively. I've just grown lazy in my old age.

[boomersruckus]

This was a huge deal at my local field back in 1999/2000. Everyone and their mother was ranting and raving about it. Just because it was the popular thing to do, I instantly hated it. I was telling everyone that squeegees were the only real way to clean barrels properly. All these years later and there is no slicksuperlubeputtybutterhatergrease303, but there are better squeegees. Overbore, shoot more, fill air after each game, and carry a good squeegee. Rules to live by no matter what your paintball style is.

[autococker04]

This is the first I’m hearing of rainex in the barrel and I’m interested. I typically avoid squeegeeing anything and will just shoot until they start going straight again. If I can do that 5 balls quicker it would be nice.

[RPP]

I love how paintball just goes in cycles. This was popular a long time ago. A juice that's not worth the squeeze. Just get a good squeegee and a spray bottle to clean your barrel out in between matches.

[flyweightnate]

If RainX works, how about that NeverWet stuff at Home Depot? It's "SUPERhydrophobic" and also works on heavy oils?

I mean, in theory, if paint is a polar molecule and RainX/ Neverwet are nonpolar and it prevents wetting (technical term) of the barrel, yeah, it should all bead up and slide on out more easily. Will it affect the spin of the paintball in any meaningful way? Will it stay for more than 10 shots? Will it give you x-ray vision? Inquiring minds want to know.

Edit: looked for an SDS, nothing yet for some products. For Neverwet Rain Repellent, "20% of the mixture consists of ingredient(s) of unknown acute toxicity." Fun. The rest is propanol, MEK, sulfuric acid, and as the actual "product", Triethoxyoctylsilane (which I'm assuming gets deposited somehow as a Pledge-like silicon coating).

[Chuck E Ducky]

It’s a thinned out silicone base. Most of those products are. You can even make it yourself. I use them on my camping gear it’s the only way to roll.

[boomersruckus]

Its never proven to work because....... the paintballs themselves wipe the coating off from the inside of the barrel with every shot. After a hopper, you would be lucky to have trace amounts still intact and functioning. I know this for a fact because AI told me so!

[Grendel]

This, and it does seem to work to help clear breaks from the barrel but stops "working" after a very short while (less than a hopper)

[fat-50-]

I drank this kool aid once when Armson/ptp made a barrel treatment.

[Pewpewpew]

I figure for $4 I will give it a shot. On the couple daily drivers, got a feeling it’s going to be like going from a freak to a freak xl for me, That’s neat, what’s the difference?

[RPP]

I drank this kool aid once when Armson/ptp made a barrel treatment.

Exactly. Its been around a long time....

[Daltech]

The real ones remember.

[Pewpewpew]

Can I huff it?

[JohnB]

I have been using Brillanze on my lens lately, similar product. Idk if it is worth it, does clean the lens nicely. Not certain if better than water and micro though

[Chuck E Ducky]

I still use that on my masks it will take an old JT lens and make it look new. Honda Motorcycle polish is the same thing. There is another brand that’s the same product different package I can’t remember.