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    Posted: 25 January 2007 at 6:52pm

Hey Girls! I havent posted in a while,but I was wondering if you guys had any stories you could tell me about how long your standard out-of-the-box 98c has survived your many years of playing. Has anyone got any stories about your tippmanns being dropped or ranover or anything? My friend dosen't think tippmanns are very reliable. Please help me prove him wrong!



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I feel as though I shoudlnt tell you my story since you referred to me as a girl...

We dragged my friend's 98c behind his car up and down his road and then came back and played with it. It worked fine. I banged mine off of countless trees, rocks, etc while playing woodsball while I had it.
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Originally posted by GregL GregL wrote:

Hey Girls! I havent posted in a while,but I was wondering if you guys had any stories you could tell me about how long your standard out-of-the-box 98c has survived your many years of playing. Has anyone got any stories about your tippmanns being dropped or ranover or anything? My friend dosen't think tippmanns are very reliable. Please help me prove him wrong!

Yup were all girl/guys here. 



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You GUYS have no since of humor. But aside from that,what are any common problems with your tippmanns? (If any).
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Originally posted by GregL GregL wrote:

You GUYS have no since of humor. But aside from that,what are any common problems with your tippmanns? (If any).

The whole mysterious break down has been my biggest problem. Its like, if it wants to leak it will, and if it wants to stop, it will. Also, the bolt sticks sometimes, but I lubed it and haven't played since. (I have an A-5 by the way)

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And what does he think is reliable?
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I want to drop my us-5 off the roof of a building onto concrete one day.... willing to bet it will be playable afterwards, maybe a bit scratched.

Not sure if you could do that with an a-5 because the grip is platic isin't it? Plus the cyclone would break possibly? I guess it depends on the height.

But i'm sure the 98 would be just as strong as my us-5 if not more.
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my friend, who i've been playing with for 3 years now (we normally play at least once every 2 weeks, from early spring into late fall), has a plain 98 custom, nothing done. last year, i was dropping oil in my ASA, and he asked me what that was all about. i told him that it works well in between field strippings/lubing up the gun. as soon as he heard "field strip" he got that confused look on his face. after i regained my composure, i realized what he was telling me: somehow, he has been able to shoot probably 10 cases through his gun, and not experience a single internal malfunction....i'm anxious to strip it and see the conditions of the internals...

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10 cases is cake.

I'd start to be concerned after like 50.



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I've got my old pro-lite which, with the exception of needing a new drive spring and velocity screw after 10 years, hasn't failed me once. I've dropped it in creeks, slammed it into trees, had it fall out of the back of a moving truck on a gravel road, all kinds of stuff.

There's a reason the vast majority of fields use the Pro-lite and the '98 (both tippmann) for their rental markers. They are simply indestructible. We've got original "gilled" '98's out at AG in Leesburg that have had some hammer o-rings replaced, and that's it. Almost 10 straight years of rental abuse with no major repairs.
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A guy that I was talking to at the last big game said he found a stock 98c in a pond. said the paint was pealing off, and had mud in the inside of the gun. so he stripped it down put a Ebolt and LPK in it. and now it Rips! Its name is the Silver Tippmann.
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Originally posted by an94 an94 wrote:

A guy that I was talking to at the last big game said he found a stock 98c in a pond. said the paint was pealing off, and had mud in the inside of the gun. so he stripped it down put a Ebolt and LPK in it. and now it Rips! Its name is the Silver Tippmann.
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if I had to use a paintball gun to kill, Id use something really cheap like a VL or a spyder. something I would not regret throwing away afterwards, NOT a perfectly good Tippmann.
 Im willing to bet that two people got into it in a game. afterwards one guy took revenge and threw the other dudes gun in the pond when he wasnt looking.
Tippmanns are just like the AKM
monkeys/noobs can use both with somewhat success.
and they will keep firing when other guns would break down
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my a-5 has been dropped, stepped on, fallen on, and has never had any problems from any of those accidents. 
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I had a 98 that I got used, and all the screws were stripped.
Couldn't take it apart.
I never took it apart for over a year. Sold it to a guy and he has had it for probably 2 years now...never been apart. And always works.
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one of the few tippman 98's I ever used (when I was really young).....

it was a rental, the field that we were playing at had a dessert course with sand.

 

before that, it fell in a puddle, next it fell in the sand. It got like wet sand down the barrel and feed tube.... still shot perfectly
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My 98's have been FLAWLESS.

I had an A-5 that was a complete disaster, so much so I sold it at a loss.

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Torture test? I own a 98. That's torture enough...
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I bought 5 old prolites rentals from my home field for many reason easy to work on simple to fix. bolt wont open kick it open take a few shots good to go ( had a 68 carbine that got rusted shut thats how i learned that trick  )  in my opinion their the best guns around for reliability just imagine some of the old tippmann rentals are older then some of the new players walking on the field for the first time i think the prolite came out in 92 ? almost sure on that i know it was before 94 honestly old tippmanns and 98s are the AK-47s of paintball they are reliable dependable and the best weapon from newb to oh crap my main gun is down have to go to my back up    
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Originally posted by carl_the_sniper carl_the_sniper wrote:

Not sure if you could do that with an a-5 because the grip is platic isin't it?

 

Yea the grip is made out of plastic, but not just regular plastic your you TV remote control is made out of. The plastic that the A-5 is made out of is glass reinforced plastic if I'm not mistaken. Read about it, its tuff stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_reinforced_plastic

Which is the same type of plastic which is used in real military assault rifles like the AK-101: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-101



Edited by KillerBD - 04 February 2007 at 11:07pm
Tippmann A-5:
>Tapco CAR stock.
>W.A.S. board, E-grip.
>Spyder Remote Line.
>Smart Parts 20" barrel.
>Other custom mods.
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