Field Clean Flatline

go to the closest paintball store and buy one that goes down the barrel and does not push paint into the gun they make them i have one.....

OK, well here is the deal, I am a moron when under pressure...

Tippmann includes a nice red and green pull through squeege thing that if you press the button to remove your hopper and elbow you can feed the string into the loading hole and all four discs on the squeege go right in... one good yank on the string and clean as a whistle...  No unscrewing of anything and the realization of why there is a button on top of the shroud

Well thanks for the help, this is deff a learning experience.

Seriously?  the alcohol doesn't hurt the sandpaper feeling stuff in the barrel? That sounds about 45 seconds faster than pulling that squeege through... I'll have to try that...

Putting a corrosive substance through a finished barrel just doesn't sound like a good idea...

Frozen Balls wrote: Putting a corrosive substance through a finished barrel just doesn't sound like a good idea...

Alcohol is not corrosive and will evaporate in seconds. 

The barrel needs to be set in place, there is an adapter that screws into the 98's threads, but has a smooth finish where the actual curved barrel slides into at about a 10 degree down angle.  The barrel is then adjusted by a slight twist closckwise or counter and then the pinch bolt on the adaptor is tightened.

The sand paper feeling is like a 5000 or higher grit feeling.  The curve in the barrel creates the spin on the paintball.  Because the ball and the air travel out the barrel at the same time and the first curve is up, the air pushing the ball pins the ball against the top of the barrel as the air tries to pass under it.  The gritty feeling forces the ball to have a back spin and does all that funky long flat thing it was made to do.  If the barrel was oiled up and smoth then the air would pin the ball to the top of the barrel and then it would just slide out like a knuckle ball and die.  I was told to never oil the flatline and it seems to be working so far without any oil at all. 

hope this helps, trying to find a picture of the FL without the shroud to show you...

For cleaning, I use the pullthrough squeegee and a folding battle swab. I've yet to try the alcohol swabs but I hear that it works beautifully.

Hey all,
     I recently bought a 98 custom and a flatline simultaneously.  I've never fired it out of the stock barrel, and I've only been out with it once..  But, the flatline has remarkable distance..  I was tripling my friends' ranges(sometimes)... however, even at semi-close range(50ft or so), my shots were hooking left, right, and occasionally up(That was ok..)..  But I was missing shots at this medium range that I could have EASILY hit with a RENTAL gun...  I didn't have my tools on me at the time..  but now I do, and I'm affraid to mess with anything, being such a beginner.  Is there anything simple I can do to keep the hooks up or my shots flat? 

      Also, I hear the BEST velocity for the 98c's flatline to fire at is 280-285 fps.   IF this is true, how can I adjust the velocity and/or know what I'm shooting at now(Nothing special added to the gun, just the flatline)?  I saw a couple velocity knobs on a few websites and in pro shops, but the one made for my marker is an end-cap accessory..  and I have a collapsible stock installed already ...  so I guess the knob's just out then, right?  I can't figure out how to adjust the velocity

     Any help here would be hawt heheh 

     Oh, and I was using Diablo:  Blaze...  or some other type of Diablo.. not sure which balls they were exactly, but they were $45/case..  I know the paint matters, so just wanted to fill you guys in! 

ive had a flatline for over 2 years i can honestly can say never broke any balls inside try useing better paint. i just put on an r/t i went nuts on the velocity all up then all down still not a break

I fold down the feed elbow and push a flex squeege in the breach. I often add a liitle water to the squeege. This is where I differ from the previous reply. I hold the very end of the squeege's flex cable (tight) and shoot the gun I works much faster for getting all the paint stuck in the finish out. I dry fire it a couple more times to be sure I got all the water out, then snap the elbow back in place.