When it comes to A5 upgrades the usual opinion is don’t waste your money, save it and buy a better gun. Let’s leave that sentiment outside in the cold where it belongs. I’m curious who has used parts from techt, jcs, etc, and what, if any benefit you noticed. I feel like aluminum replacements will at least out live their stock plastic counterparts. But then you’ve got stuff like the zero kick hammer, qeph, hair pin trigger kit…the list goes on. So who has pulled the proverbial trigger? What’s legit, what’s snake oil?
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I deal with a lot of tippmanns and their associated "upgrades" here's a short list
I'm not sold on aluminum power tubes. I actually have had more problems with aluminum aftermarket ones than the stock plastic
Leave the stock bolt. I have yet to find an aftermarket one I thought was better
Expansion chambers of pretty much any kind are typically beneficial
I haven't messed with too many aftermarket valves so can't say much there
Polish the internals and the hammer, better than buying a replacement hammer
Do NOT get an LP kit. They cause way more problems than they are worth
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Back in the tippmann hay days. I pimped my a5 out. I will say the squishy paddles helped paint. The metal cyclone upgrades did make the cyclone action smoother when manually actuating it, but I'm not sure they added any performance value. The plastic ratchet has never broken in my friend group. In all cases you have to regularly clean and grease the system which is a lot of work over time.
The hair pins are cool, but you can shim trigger pins with straws or shrink tubing and or spacers.
I did have a metal power tube that lacked the velocity screw. The idea was I wanted a unobstructed jet of air from the valve. Then I used a regulator to adjust velocity.
On that note an RVA is a huge help imo. Skip the regulator, leave the factory velocity adjuster loctited flush and tune with spring tension.
Performance wise. They need a barrel. Owning an a5 is honestly why I have bought into the barrel snake oil over the years.
The only bolt I'd get would be one with an internal o ring that rides the power tube in hopes to get better cyyclone and or rt performance.
Imo, though I cant bring myself to buy one, the best upgrade for your a5 today would be a python pb helix feed neck.. ditch the cyclone all together for an aluminum feedneck and jam your favorite hopper on it.
I'm otherwise a sucker for the spec ops horizontal grips. I have an a5 in my room of doom, And Ive gathered a bunch of bits for it. I'll be making it into a super rt set up some day.Comment
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Good stuff here thanks. I’ve definitely got straws and shrink tubing kicking around. Can’t use an rva because I’m going the spec ops route too. If I wanted it light I’d use something else, haha. What do you have in the doom room for the super RT? I know they aren’t field legal, but getting that rate of fire without batteries is definitely intriguing
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