One Thing About One Marker

[The Jayster]

The best overall value right now is the Etha 3M with Speedster package.

[acrewofone]

On a Crosman 3357, the grip panel screw and the barrel latch plate screw are the same threads...and unless you are rebuilding a 3357, this information does not help you at all...

[DocsMachine]

The "Blade", the early semiauto made by one of the Team Navarone players back in the early 90s, had a reversible feed neck; you could have it left feed or right feed.

Doc.

[DocsMachine]

I don't know if this was mentioned before, but Nitro Duck/Paintball Mania developed and released the first screw-in HPA system back in '96 or '97. It was a regulator originally intended for fields to install on existing 20-ounce CO2 tanks, to convert them to inexpensive 1800 psi HPA tanks. (Bolt-on systems of the day, like Air Americas, were often $350 to $450 each.)

Doc.

[DocsMachine]

Looking back, I posted this one already, back on page 3.

Getting to the point I can hide my own Easter eggs these days...

Doc.

[Drunkscriblerian]

Any vaguely rubber-y object of the right thickness can be carved into a Tippmann detent if you have a knife and are desperate enough.

(Seriously; I did this once at a game when my detent went...I found an old rubber washer of some kind in the parking lot - probably a part off someone's car - and used a pocketknife to trim it up. My Pro-Lite ran fine on it for months.)

[Euphie]

I don't know if this was mentioned before, but Nitro Duck/Paintball Mania developed and released the first screw-in HPA system back in '96 or '97. It was a regulator originally intended for fields to install on existing 20-ounce CO2 tanks, to convert them to inexpensive 1800 psi HPA tanks. (Bolt-on systems of the day, like Air Americas, were often $350 to $450 each.)

Doc.

From the 1996 Smart Parts Catalog, this is it right?

[DocsMachine]

That's interesting, I'm not sure I've ever seen one of those before. I was given to understand that PBMania developed the idea, but maybe theirs were simply the first successful one.

Anyone have more info? Or ever seen one of those SP ones in the wild?

Doc.

[Euphie]

DocsMachine I had just assumed this was a Nitro Duck one and that Smart Parts was just selling it. Lots of things in their catalog are clearly made by someone else and only in a few places do they mention that someone else makes it which is a bit scummy but hey that is SP for you. I can't fathom how this regulator would work though, like if you had rental automags you probably wouldn't even make it though one full hopper before you didn't have enough PSI to maintain velocity.

[$L!mBo]

If running your phantom with a .45 grip and no bottom mount accessories, you can stash the rear screw in the same holes when taking it apart.

[Magmoormaster]

The "Blade", the early semiauto made by one of the Team Navarone players back in the early 90s, had a reversible feed neck; you could have it left feed or right feed.

Doc.

Such weird guns. The detent is a coil spring running perpendicular to the barrel, and the plug in the back of the top tube can be used as a barrel plug.

They have a gas-thru frame with no rubber grips, so they get really cold when you use CO2 (which of course you would have at the time).

The second generation added a vertical adapter.

[Drunkscriblerian]

On Mokal-brand blowbacks (Mirage, Titan) when you pull the trigger the whole marker frame rings like a bell when it cycles. I'm not sure why this happens, but its interesting enough to mention.

I have a Titan that I will eventually restore to working order. Reason; the field I started playing on used Mokal Mirages as rental semis and I want to hear that CHING! CHING! CHING! again.

[Trbo323]

The vanguard creed and demon (same board) don't actually turn off. The power button basically turns the screen off and the board stays on in the background.

As you can imagine this leads to lots of dead batteries, thankfully it's a rechargeable so it's not costing money

Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

[DocsMachine]

The old 'shoebox' Shockers came from the factory with no power switch- of any kind- and used a proprietary, nonrechargeable battery pack.

In "Smart" Parts defense, the battery had a pretty dang fair lifespan- even in tourney use, it'd last months. For most rec use, it'd last a year.

Doc.

[DocsMachine]

Also, there was no difference between the shoebox' "4X4" boards, and the "S/F", or select-fire boards, except a miniature SPDT switch. I soldered hundreds of $2.50 switches to stock 4X4 boards, to convert them to SF boards that SP charged $150 for.

Doc.