Electronics Gasketing

 First I use a Custom 98 - E. I was rather disturbed at what happened recently. Last weekend (7/22) in the middle of game play a rain storm came thru the field. At the end of game play I put on the barrel cover and safety and placed it on a table and was in the general area talking to my team mates. All of a sudden my marker started to automatically fire paint. The paint BLEW right thru my barrel cover and started to spray a snack shack and picnic table area, as I was running back to find out what was happening. A friend and I grabbed the marker, he covered it with a towel as I disconnected the air. It was still"firing" as the solinoid was clicking away like mad. It seems as though the solenoid and electronics got wet in the rain so I disconnected the battery. Has anyone else experienced this? Has there been any discussion around gasketing the electronics to prevent moisture penetrating?

Why did you not cover your gun from the rain? You know electronics and water don't mix? But yes a gasket would help. You could make a gasket pretty easy really, simply find some weather stripping. Hopefully you can find it with sticky side. Put a thin piece of it on one frame around the electronics of the marker and then when you come to the part where you have to cross the fram to make a tight seal, use cardboard to make a bridge across it and seal it all up.

Edited by barn_user - 25 July 2006 at 8:34pm

    Blue RTV squeeze a little anywhere you dont want water to get through and wipe off the excess.

you might not want to do it so it seals your grips cuz if you ever do any, like a board, itll be hard to pop it open, do something that just surrounds the electrical stuff

newer being what, i think his is new