“It was working when I put it away”

[autococker04]

I buy a lot of used gear from the depths of garages and closets, and I always hear “It was working when I put it away.”

a lot of the time that’s probably true. Other times, not so much. Old gummy orings are one thing, and I always buy assuming whatever it is will need fixed.

I aired this one up and got a massive leak from the trigger frame. Took it apart and saw something weird. Gonna go out on a limb and say that based on the fact that the valve is peeking at me, this wasn’t actually working when it was put away.

What home maintenance catastrophes have you guys come across?

[XEMON]

A prolite that "was working when put away" without a linkage rod 😅


Personally I've been pretty lucky on that front ... I buy mostly on here or just parts ...
( I did got some "clicking solenoid" that were leaking from everywhere ... They did click tho ...)

[Cunha]

I've been lucky for the most part, a few bad deals where there was purposely undisclosed damage but never anything quite like that lol

[FredMnkyDad10]

I been lucky, few things that I picked up on craigslist were in better and working conditions.

My own, when a took a long break from playing everything was working. The automags, ion and some others still were.

the Valhalla dead board.

[Tracker]

i had an avid ego 11 (they came with DART) that i got "100% working" and it had a metal chip smashed into the valve\cupseal faces that i found when i gave it the once over.. in a Dart valve, both of those surfaces are Delrin, and it gouged em both so it would always have a hissing valve seal.. nothing quite like that though

i managed to fix it, and learned a few tricks that have paid off since

[Olsson]

I bought a Proto Matrix 8 from a friend of mine. I had previously teched it and tested it out on the field, so I knew it was working 100%. About half a year later he sold it to me for peanut money. The next time I tried to air it up, the board was completely dead... That gun was for sure working when he put it away, so I didn't have the heart to tell him.

[Tracker]

at least replacement boards are pretty easy enough to come by, they had a few years of boards with both ribbon and 3 pin molex connectors

[Olsson]

Both ribbon and molex connectors - interesting. The current dead board is/was a 7th Element, and it only have a ribbon connector, IIRC, so I was curious if I was going to have to replace the eyes as well, since I believed that most other boards only had molex.

Good to know, thx.

[Cdn_Cuda]

Bought a Spyder and a Trilogy from a gent who said both were working. The Spyder had no ASA or bolt…. So yeah.

Also bought Tippmann A5 that has dead flies inside the valve. Dubbed that one the “A-Flive”.

[MrBarraclough]

Actually got a refund from an eBay seller who sold me an SLG as "used" (meaning functional, as opposed to "for parts or not working") that not only didn't work, but I was able to point out how it could not possibly have worked. When assembled, the solenoid plunger and the sear didn't contact. The plunger was about 1.5mm too far back to hit and trip the sear. Took me a while to realize that, and I about drove myself crazy trying to fix it in the meantime. Sent emails to DYE tech support, eventually got a response from Billy Wing (with an obvious chain of forwards at the bottom showing how it had bounced around within the company). Bought the remnants of a repair kit off of an ex-tech on Facebook. Tried different sears. Learned more about the SLG in a three week period than anyone could need or want to know. Once I figured out and could explain how it could not possibly work, I convinced the guy to take it back.

Some days after sending it back and getting refunded, the seller was nice enough to email me and solve the mystery: After test firing it (he was selling it for a friend), he'd taken it apart for cleaning and accidentally reassembled it with the grip frame off another, similar marker (would have to have been another SLG of a different year). He didn't test it again after reassembly. I don't think he realized that there were subtle changes in the grip frame geometry and/or solenoid plunger size between different years. He offered to sell it to me again at a discount, but I declined, having already found an eNMEy for the person for whom I had initially bought that SLG.

[Toestr]

For me that usually means that it's a blowback that was put away with a chop in the breach (which it may very well have been able to cycle through), which has solidified and been compressed to a state where dish soap, hot water and a toothbrush are no longer enough to remove it.

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[homerj]

A few years ago i bought a DP F7. I don’t remember where or from who. I knew it had some dings & scratches but appeared to be in ok shape. It showed up just beat to hell & back and even had some guy’s name carved in it. I was not happy at all but the guy actually did the right thing. If i remember correctly he sent me my money back & told me i could keep the F7. No idea what i did with it. I’m sure i sold it or traded it away.

[Chappy]

This is a small one but I bought an old 7oz tank from Titus years ago described as good shape complete and functioning and it showed up without a burst disk. I questioned him on it and he told me that was sold separately. Like you coulda mentioned that before you sold it to me that way I would’ve known ahead of time never to deal with you again.

[Jordan]

I bought a Typhoon on here that was supposed to be functional and, after filing a PayPal dispute to get the guy to actually ship, finally got it to find it seized up and not anywhere close to being usable.... I actually found mud and small sticks in the lower tube.

Of course I couldn't file another PayPal dispute at this point, I'd already closed the first one, so I learned how to rebuild a Typhoon. 🙂

It eventually went to PPS with a KP stock and trigger group and got converted into a Hurricane. Then I traded it to Poisonpill, I think. Or Agglet, I don't remember 100%.

[Tarsun2]

working, just needs HPR rebuild and solenoid replaced.

[Jordan]

Every ICD electro ever?

[Cunha]

Lol right!

[Myrkul]

Hey now, I still haven't had one of those Parker noids go bad on me yet... The ICD wiring harnesses on the other hand.... Those are always toast.

[Alexndl]

On two occasion I bough a mag from a seller on here that was suppose to come with level 10 bolt.
one showed up without any bolt and the other showed up with only a level 7 bolt...
now I ask picture first...

One funny one was a Zapp ZXS 400 I bough locally for 5$ the kid selling it said it needed air to cock the marker. The hammer was mounted backward preventing the bolt moving correctly and the cup seal was not moving in the valve. Had to sand some sharp edge on the valve and assembled it correctly and it worked. Used it couple of time in the backyard and sold it after