Micro Mag restoration

[ikalon]

Is there any tutorial vids on youtube or elsewhere to take care of it to begin with ? I'm pretty sure all the o-rings and not metal part are dead a long time ago and I should change them before anything else no ?

Is this the kit to buy ? https://airgundesigns.shop/product/a...ild-l7-tlb-ms/
Any link for the paintball oil ? Any brand best than others ?

I'd really like to keep it all to myself really, it's was a fine piece 25 years ago and seeing it so well preserved just give me the chill. Just want to disassemble it,clean it, change what need to be change and use it on my children (lovingly of course )

PS : I'm wondering if I should recreate a topic in the AGD part of the forum ?

[Olsson]

I was directed here by some paintball fanatics.

This made me chuckle, by the way. Well put.

[Olsson]

The valve is sought after by people with Micromags, but lacking a valve with the correct lasering. There will absolutely be people in France that want to buy that valve from you, or trade in your favor for a valve lasered "Automag".

As has been mentioned, all the splashed parts carry value, and will be easy to sell if you should decide to do so.

Automags are very easy to get back up and running, so people gladly buy old Automags - hence, your Automag is definitely not a piece of junk. It will most probably be an easy fix, so you should be able to do it yourself.

Initially, if you have any paintball oil, then drop a liberal amount of it into the valve, air the gun up and see what happens. If it leaks, fire some 50-100 rounds and with a bit of luck, the leak might very well disappear. If not - post your results here, and you will get further help. There are easy steps to follow.

Regarding oil - use oil. Do not use any paintball grease for modern markers. Also, paintball marker oil is just rebranded air tool oil, so if you should happen to have that at hand, it will do just fine.


Oh, and it wouldn't surprise me if there was at least one paintball store in France that sells rebuild kits for Automags, so you hopefully won't have to order from overseas.
If you can't find any in France, send me a PM, and I'll send you one. We're practically neighbors since I live in Sweden.

[ikalon]

Thanks for your reply well no, this one is for me lol

[BrickHaus]

Nice automag! Although its not specifically a micro mag body. It is a micro mag valve, which is the same as a classic valve with different lasering. its definitely worth fixing up. On the other hand you could likely sell that mag as is to someone, and buy the kids a more modern marker like an emek for a bit more of a user friendly marker to a kid.

The splash parts are highly desirable to many, and that matched J&J barrel is cool!

ADG is still active, so you can order a rebuild kit for it.

Maybe see how much a rebuild kit would cost you with export fees to France as a starting point. This will give you a reference.

Then you can decide on selling as is to fund newer marker purchase, or fixing that up to let your kids live in your nostalgic glory.

Welcome to the forum!!

[ikalon]

Hello there,

I was directed here by some paintball fanatics.
I'm french so I'm already sorry if my understandings aren't as good as everybody else in english. However, seems like there's no better place to ask for help with my little paintball launcher.

Got kids finally old enough to experience paintball so I sorted out my stuff and found back some old ADG gun. However, I was already a bad tech in the old ages and I'm even worse now ^^ I'd like to bring it back to life correctly as I got great memories with it and I think it can be still a good one.

Simple questions, is it worth it ? Or is it just garbage now ? more than 20 years passed so...Hard to know. And if a restoration is possible, should I seek some tech guy or is it something I "could" do with some tutorials ?

I'm not sure if I should have posted it here, sorry if it's not on the right chan 🤔

Thanks for reading already though