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    Posted: 01 August 2005 at 1:46am
    My new Tippmann with egrip keeps on chopping balls. The gun is still new. Today was the first day that I even used it. I have tried three different types on balls with it Carnage, PMI Big balls, and some other type of zap paint. Firing speed didn't seem to affect the balls being chopped. One time it chopped the ball on the first shot after I fully cleaned it.  Could it be a paint problem. Or is there something else wrong with the gun. I would also like to add that at the end of the day I fired two hoppers full of last months paint with no problems. This paint was left in the heat and was really soft and not every ball was round. But that was the best the gun did. The whole day sucked can someone please help.
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whats your gun setup? is it stock? do you have any aftermarker parts like a new barrel on it? list everything that you hade installed that day other than a stock A-5.
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was it an a-5 e-grip or was it a custom pro?
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    My gun is totally stock except for the EGrip. The balls where chopped right in half. Someone told me that it might be a bent rod in my feeder. So I checked that out and all looked okay. There was a small ammount of tightness right before the manual advance feed comes all the way out, but the ammount is very slight. And yes the Egrip is for the A5, unless tippmann gave me the wronge one. But yea it came on the gun from tippmann

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An electric hopper usually helps out a lot, even if you don't need to fire fast. It could also be the ball detent is a little weak and it is letting two balls through and the second is getting chopped. I can't see that happening though because your gun is new.
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send it back to Tippmann.
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no maybe your velocitey is to high because i have a A5 and i never broke a ball with it yet

 
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high velocity won't chop balls. It will break them in the barrel. His A-5 is getting half feeds and chops.

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    Okay I called tippmann they told me to send the gun in. Hopefully I can get it back friday, but I doubt it. I can deal with a gun not being acurate or being slow. But I draw the line at chopping balls. That is my pet peive. Does anyone else out there have this problem with their tippmann and the egrip? Or is everyone satisfied with their guns?
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I am completely satisfied with my 98c r/t. I have used it without an electric hopper and it doesn't chop, it will just dryfire a few times between every shot. I'm getting a revvy to fix that problem.
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Where did u buy ur paint? i think ur paint is old stock, maybe.
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Originally posted by rossy11223 rossy11223 wrote:

An electric hopper usually helps out a lot, even if you don't need to fire fast. It could also be the ball detent is a little weak and it is letting two balls through and the second is getting chopped. I can't see that happening though because your gun is new.

Hello?  The A-5 uses a cyclone feed.  Check for a rigid part on the face of the bolt and follow the track of your cyclone and see why the balls arent getting centered correctly.  Also check the hose form the gun to the cyclone if its severed then not enough gas will get to the cyclone and it will only partially turn.
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Originally posted by tippy279 tippy279 wrote:

Originally posted by rossy11223 rossy11223 wrote:

An electric hopper usually helps out a lot, even if you don't need to fire fast. It could also be the ball detent is a little weak and it is letting two balls through and the second is getting chopped. I can't see that happening though because your gun is new.

Hello?  The A-5 uses a cyclone feed.  Check for a rigid part on the face of the bolt and follow the track of your cyclone and see why the balls arent getting centered correctly.  Also check the hose form the gun to the cyclone if its severed then not enough gas will get to the cyclone and it will only partially turn.

Sorry! I make mistakes too and I just forgot that he had an A-5.
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you have an e-grip, read the directions for tuning the e-grip.
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Originally posted by rossy11223 rossy11223 wrote:

I am completely satisfied with my 98c r/t. I have used it without an electric hopper and it doesn't chop, it will just dryfire a few times between every shot. I'm getting a revvy to fix that problem.

What hopper are you using?
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