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  • zenmic
    Rockin and Cockin
    • Jul 2020
    • 92
    • Plano, TX by way of Pasadena, CA by way of Memphis, TN

    #31
    The ATS-85 cannot be fired while inverted.

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    • Euphie
      Bunker Buster
      • Jul 2021
      • 291

      #32
      When Smart Parts redesigned the Shocker to take over from Pneuventures, they removed the AA batteries and the on/off switch, requiring the use of proprietary non-rechargeable battery packs with no switch to prevent power drain or act as a safety.

      The Gardeners have had shady business practices right from the start.

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      • DocsMachine
        MCB Member
        • Jul 2020
        • 2699
        • Alaska

        #33
        Not a marker, but the elder Gardner was a patent attorney, who was prosecuted and convicted of patent fraud, before Smart Parts was ever formed.

        Doc.
        Doc's Machine & Airsmith Services: Creating the Strange and Wonderful since 1998!
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      • DocsMachine
        MCB Member
        • Jul 2020
        • 2699
        • Alaska

        #34
        The Smart Parts "All American" barrel was originally a design to make it "self squeeging". If a ball broke, the next shot was supposed to push it all into the holes and the air would blow it out.

        Doc.
        Doc's Machine & Airsmith Services: Creating the Strange and Wonderful since 1998!
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        • Drunkscriblerian
          Drunkscriblerian commented
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          I own one, and let's just say I'm not sure if you're joking.
      • DocsMachine
        MCB Member
        • Jul 2020
        • 2699
        • Alaska

        #35
        The Smart Parts "Magic Box" originally came from a fellow in the UK who called it the Black Box. It's just a chunk of pipe screwed into the side, to add a few CC of volume to the firing chamber. Supposedly lowers the chamber pressure from around 400 to around 350 psi.

        Doc.
        Doc's Machine & Airsmith Services: Creating the Strange and Wonderful since 1998!
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        • Brokeass_baller
          Brokeass_baller commented
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          The Jayster I'm not even sure it was supposed to do that. The only ad I ever remember seeing about it only claimed to change the "pop" on the ball from a "high pressure pop" to a "low pressure pop". That's almost verbatim.

        • The Jayster
          The Jayster commented
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          Yeah, and that was supposed to get us more range and accuracy. Ha paintball in the '90s! 'Member venturi bolts? I could drone on...

          Actually, I have a stack of old PB mags from that era stashed in my parents' basement and while visiting the other day I picked a mag up (APG) dated 1995 or 1996 and there was a Tippmann ad. The ad mentioned "we've outlasted every fad and gimmick in the industry". That was written almost 30 years ago and amazingly it can still be applied now. Of all the manufacturers listed in the ads, only Tippmann, CCI (well EV) and maybe Smart Parts (through GOG/SP/DLX) are still here. Sobering thought ain't it?

        • Brokeass_baller
          Brokeass_baller commented
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          Kinda sad, actually.
      • DocsMachine
        MCB Member
        • Jul 2020
        • 2699
        • Alaska

        #36
        "Goggleflage", if any of you remember that, was- unofficially, of course- intended more as "bounce armor" than actual camoflage.

        Doc.
        Doc's Machine & Airsmith Services: Creating the Strange and Wonderful since 1998!
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        • DocsMachine
          MCB Member
          • Jul 2020
          • 2699
          • Alaska

          #37
          The original Kingman Spyder had a velocity adjuster on the side, between the upper and lower body tubes.

          Doc.
          Doc's Machine & Airsmith Services: Creating the Strange and Wonderful since 1998!
          The Whiteboard: Daily, occasionally paintball-related webcomic mayhem!
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          • DocsMachine
            MCB Member
            • Jul 2020
            • 2699
            • Alaska

            #38
            Paintball Mania/Nitro Duck made the first "screw in" air system, and it was originally sold as just the reg. It was intended for field owners who would buy a boxful of the regs and convert their 20-ounce CO2 tanks over to 1800 psi screw-in air tanks.

            Doc.
            Doc's Machine & Airsmith Services: Creating the Strange and Wonderful since 1998!
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            • imped4now
              imped4now commented
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              Now this I didn't know. Very interesting, but logical now that I see it mentioned.
          • Meleager7
            MCB Member
            • Jul 2020
            • 2170
            • Ontario, Canada

            #39
            The Mokal Titan will take Autococker barrels, the thread pitch is the same but the barrel shank on the cocker barrel is just a bit too long. So when threaded in , there is about a 1\8th inch gap between barrel and the receiver, but it is just cosmetic.
            '96 RF Mini Cocker, '95 RF Autococker, 68-Automag Classic, Banzai Splash Minimag, Gen-E Matrix, Shoebox Shocker 4x4, Montneel Z-1, Tippmann Pro-Carbine, Tippmann Mini-Lite, Tippmann Model-98, Tippmann 68-Special, Spyder .50 cal Opus/Opus-A , Tippmann .50 Cal Cronus , Gog Enmey .50 cal , Tippmann Vert ASA 68-Carbine, Bob Long Millennium, ICD Grey Green Marble Splash Alleycat Deluxe (runs liquid co2) , Halfblock 2K4 Prostock Autococker , 2K RF Sniper II

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            • Tarsun2
              Certified Post Whore
              • Jul 2020
              • 1015

              #40
              the spyder flash uses barrel inserts from the factory.

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              • OpusX
                OpusX commented
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                Pretty sure that was to correct a manufacturing mistake (the barrel shank being too short) and not a "feature".

              • Tarsun2
                Tarsun2 commented
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                never knew that. i thought they used a stock bvarrel from another spyder and just anodized it to match...

              • coyote
                coyote commented
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                I called that the "freak insert"
            • Chuck E Ducky
              Ragnastock Enforcer
              • Jul 2020
              • 6116
              • NY

              #41
              Autocockers are superior to Automags

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              • Euphie
                Euphie commented
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                thems fightin' words

              • Chuck E Ducky
                Chuck E Ducky commented
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                🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥5-3 just saying 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

              • MrBarraclough
                MrBarraclough commented
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                Using the metric of having the most moving parts, sure.
            • Ecapnation
              MCB Member
              • Jul 2020
              • 4209
              • South Central Long Island

              #42
              Wgp Rangers are technically a right side off set center feed.

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              • cougar20th
                MCB Member
                • Jul 2020
                • 1083
                • Amherst NH

                #43
                Automags are superior to Autocockers

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                • Chuck E Ducky
                  Chuck E Ducky commented
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                  I knew that would stir you up 😂
              • flyweightnate
                MCB Member
                • Jul 2020
                • 1853
                • Dallas, TX

                #44
                The 07 Cyborg valve poppet is machined from a single piece of acetal (plastic).
                Feedback
                www.PhrameworkDesigns.com < Nelspot, Sterling, and Phantom parts, plus the occasional big project.

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                • imped4now
                  imped4now commented
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                  That it is. Nice valve.

                • flyweightnate
                  flyweightnate commented
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                  I've had an 07 longer than all my other electros combined at this point.
              • ChuckLove
                Pump Kings 👑
                • Jul 2020
                • 1506
                • Western Mass

                #45
                Dye's next Space Gun will utilize Lurker's "Paragon" design or some elements of it.
                ChuckLove on YouTube

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