Marker Maintenence

I don't own one.  But I think it's not a bad idea to:

- polish your internals.

- clean the marker after games

- oil the marker with *good paintball oil* Hoppes 9 or Kermode Concepts Synthetic Gun oil etc.

that's all I can thiink of right now.

You could look into upgrades though... a new barrel should normally be the first and is normally the most important upgrade.

The inrush of Newbs is approaching full tilt  .

Welcome to the sport and the Forum !

As of yet there arent that many X-7 owners out there , but its a sweet looking Milsim marker based on the same operating platform as the much more popular A-5's and Custom 98's !

 I hope now that you're here your prepared to give us some feedback on these too , and in return we'll give you what we can , but be prepared to search a lot for questions that may have been already asked (and Answered in detail ) .

Read a LOT and speak a little for now in here . The best performance enhancement you can make to your marker initially is in yourself , get to know its limitations , its strengths , and its (in your opinion , shortcomings ) .

 This means play with it for a while , find out what what it can do out of the box , read about Paint to barrel matching , barrel types , polishing the internals , hoppers Etc.

A lot of questions will be answered if you just read the Stickies (topics that were deemed informative enough to be semi-permantly "Stuck" at the top of each forum heading) .

^^^^ You Bump your head there ?!? 

 Hoppes is what ships from the Tippmann factory with every new marker .

 Water based oil ? Hmm this is a new one on me,,, Maybe April Fools is coming early this year . To think almost 40 years working with lubricants and machinery and I've never heard of water based lubricant for machinery ,,,

 

 Checks the only bottle of water based lubricant available ,, Heeyyy !! I think a lot of my marker , but obviously I dont hold it as dearly as does Brihard

If you use any type of gun oil, be CERTAIN that it does not contain additives used to breakdown carbon buildup common in firearms.

Water based lubricant = spit

Now don't polish your gun Yet. I have two A-5's one pretty much stock sans the E grip and one RT'ed, Polished and teflon coated. And I honestly dont see any major diference between them besides the huge diference between the E-grip and the RT.

If your new, I'd say learn how corectly remove your tank on and off the gun so you dont eat an O ring every time.

Keep it clean, before each game remove the barrel and put a drop of any off the shelf Paintball Oil (easily found at your Local PB shop. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHOP it's what makes your Local Scene.) and put a drop or two into the ASA. Which is where you screw on your paintball tank. Now take a few Dry shots (Dry Fire = No paint). Make sure that you have always fresh paint and plenty of air.

THANKS EVERYONE FOR YOUR TIPS AND ADVISES! TAKE CARE YOU PEOPLE!

^ The warranty thing, I don't even that info is entirely true but even if it is Tippmann will still give you the best service no matter what... yes even if you polish your internals or have had the gun for years and years or even if you do mods to the gun.  Tippmann has great customer service and polishing your internals will not stop their customer service from being excellent or at least in my case it didn't!

Polishing the internals is a bit of work, but it is a good mod to do in my opinion.

Here we go again with that old debate .

#1. Until Tippmann says it will void the warranty , it wont .

#2. If done properly , it is a dramatic performance enhancement to the 98 Custom , I think the forumers who have done the mod sucessfully and are pleased with it , Outnumber the ones who have either dont it incorrectly or arent impressed with it .

#3. because results vary widely with the skill and expectations of the owners of the markers , this is one of those debates that will wage on indefinitely , based on each users experience or hearsay , as the case may be .

I dont recommend somebody that isnt thoroughly familiar with their marker just tear it apart and start grinding away at it in hopes to make it shoot faster than a E-grip on steroids ! 

If you want a good 10 percent (My conservative estimate) improvement in cycle time , its the Best mod a beginning player can make to the marker ,, Providing they can muster the patience and skill to follow the directions without using coarse sandpaper to "Make it quicker"

The original post on how to do it properly may have been posted by NaturalNewb (my apologies if I am incorrect) , and for trigger work , see a post in the upgrades section posted by Layman titled "Mother of all trigger jobs" .

 If those names dont seem familiar to you, dont be suprised , they posted only infrequently when I joined this forum a few years ago , and the majority of current posters here have never read a post in an active thread from them .

 

<Climbs off Soapbox>

Hey Phil!, anyone is free to say whatever! So, dont keep it for you and share it with the others cuz at least for me, that im real new in this, all the comments help a lot!

Cheers everyone!

Astroglide is a water-based lubricant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maddawg