Rant time. "Upgrades"
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Topic: Rant time. "Upgrades"
Posted By: Enos Shenk
Subject: Rant time. "Upgrades"
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 12:17pm
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Anyone else miss the days when this forum had lots of interesting discussion about homemade mods? Am i the absolute only person here who takes some amount of pleasure in upgrading my gun MYSELF? I dont need to buy a drop-in kit that installs in 2 minutes. Wheres the fun? Wheres the satisfaction in a job well done? Wheres the bragging rights? Smile, you have THE SAME CRAP AS EVERYONE ELSE. Your 98 with an LP kit isnt unique or personal, its the same as every other gun. Even though model98.net has some totally dumb mods like the "blowback holes" at least they have the interest in tinkering. Im starting to think tippmann spoiled all the new players with their drop-in stuff tailor made for the 12 year old with ADD. People like thompsonshooter are the people i respect around here. That actually build something awesome that shows you what can be done with brains and the willingness to start drilling holes in things. Ive learned so much about paintball and building things just playing around with ideas to mod stuff. I guess nobody else has any interest in bettering themself at the game we all play. Fine, whatever. Maybe ive just been overestimating people again, until i saw some posts dissing on homemade jobs. ------------- 
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Posted By: Jim Paint
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 12:18pm
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i remember this from painballchat
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 12:19pm
Well now you remember it from here. Shut up, or contribute something. -------------
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Jim Paint wrote:Posted By: AdmiralSenn
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 12:21pm
Enos.. what about me? 
I spent an hour today doing horrendously bad sketches of: a better pistol design than my last one, an effective magazine-feed system that doesn't put pressure on the balls, and a few ideas on making a full-auto version of my 98C hair-trigger kit. I was bored. ------------- Is God real? You'll find out when you die. 
Okay, I don't have a clever signature zinger. So sue me. |
Posted By: FROG MAN
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 12:24pm
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what about evil eyes. but ya i get what you mean. ------------- <1 meg sig = bad> |
Posted By: Panda Man
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 12:25pm
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Besides the Pen Spring Mod, I cant think of any for my 98 Custom, I'm Ill-Trained in the Arts of Modifying. ------------- 
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Posted By: †Sniper†
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 12:27pm
| pfff, I'd love to make myself a p/c with flatline and r/t, but I don't really trust myself with power tools. |
Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 12:27pm
| Chill enos. Anyone dissing home-made mods is a tool of course, but trashing anyone who uses drop-in mods is just as bad. Some people just have more interest in playing than tinkering. |
Posted By: FROG MAN
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 12:29pm
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maybe some ppl like the drop in kits and easy mods like port hols and pen spring cuz they care more about performance then looks. and want to spend there time and money playing. ------------- <1 meg sig = bad> |
Posted By: Panda Man
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 12:30pm
I spent 10$ on that Damn pen Spring too...  -------------
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Posted By: plax_are_meth
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 12:31pm
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^^ zing. ------------- 
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Posted By: FROG MAN
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 12:33pm
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thats what i ment. they do cheap mods that work. instead of spending time and money painting and milling on something that wont changet the porfomance of your gun ------------- <1 meg sig = bad> |
Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 12:35pm
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Whos talking about milling? Im talking about making something unique and cool like evil98's triggers. -------------
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Posted By: stick_boy_2002
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 12:39pm
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thats why i want to buy the aris customs book. i cant remember what its called. ------------- 
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Posted By: FROG MAN
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 12:39pm
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true those are awsome ------------- <1 meg sig = bad> |
Posted By: For Honor
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 12:42pm
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moding a paintball gun isnt like working on a car or a computer, they are very simple things. there is no one who couldnt do it, they just dont want to jeperdize a $200 peice of equipment ------------- 
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Posted By: MetallicaESPa5
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 1:03pm
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some of us don't have the tools to make stuff like that though. ------------- 
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Posted By: Die-Trying
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 1:09pm
 ------------- Ion sanded and bondo'd body Orange painted body and frame Dead On Bullet Drop Evo II 68/4500 crossfire Evil pipe kit with ultra tip |
Posted By: A-5 bunkerking
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 1:17pm
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some one woke up on the wrong side of the bed... not everyone has the craftsmanship and skill to make parts for their gun, and alot of the tippy users ARE 12 year olds with ADD. |
Posted By: Dazed
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 1:19pm
| If it makes you feel any better, Enos. I figured out my return spring problem. It isn't exactly a home made mod, or a drop in. Just some delightfully bastardized version of both. |
Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 1:30pm
No, im just reminescing. I miss the days when people came up with awesome clever ways to remove the tippmann tank ping. Its just more proof in my eyes that paintball is going steadily downhill. -------------
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Posted By: oreomann33
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 1:32pm
| tank ping! ive been wondering how to get rid of that. |
Posted By: stick_boy_2002
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 1:41pm
yes indeed that is a very annoing sound in my personal prefrence. ive also wondered how to get rid of it. -------------
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Posted By: WGP guy
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 2:02pm
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well, i am lucky then, cockers dont have pinging aslo, enos, i am not gonna mess with a $360 gun that the slightest thing will kill it, also, i wont mod anthing on my gun, its a total of $500 and i dont have the money to screw that up, the only i ave ever thought about modding is my pump. i might mod the tippy, but prob not |
Posted By: Death~By~Paint
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 2:25pm
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i agree with enos, like it dosent have to be a big mod and you can do things with only a wrench if you put your mind to it. just like the drop enos made. with a huge bolt and some nuts and washers. that isnt rocket science you just have to think of it. ------------- 
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Posted By: jeep 98 custom
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 2:32pm
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Gotta give me some credit, with a drill dremel and some bondo I vert fed my A-5. That takes some balls.
------------- "Yes there are two path you can go back, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on" 
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Posted By: pballa j.r.
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 2:45pm
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I would, but I dont have the tools, skill or knoledge9sp0 to do it. I
dont mind doing something thats already been done before, but I'm not
gona try something I though of and chance breaking a $130 gun.... mabe
after I get a job... but not before. And hey I came up with my
very own pretravel trigger stop.... very elementry but I still came up
with it lol. ------------- 
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Posted By: jeep 98 custom
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 2:49pm
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^^^More like a $45 gun because that's all that new receivers cost.
------------- "Yes there are two path you can go back, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on"
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Posted By: jigglydude
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 3:02pm
ive done a few small things on my black maxx and sl-68 II that i came
up with on my own, small stuff but it stillmakes me feel special looking into doing a few bigger projects but i have to sit down and work those out with my friend who has acess to the equipment i need and knows how to use it |
Posted By: ItsJustMe
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 3:06pm
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Posted By: matt06
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 3:14pm
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uummm....i tried to make a trigger stop out of the tip of a plastic golf tee. I super glued it to my trigger frame, in hopes of reducing the trigger pull distance....then realized the dang thing had to reset after evry trigger pull, so i ripped it off of tossed it aside.
umm...I sanded the paint of my guns lettering..does that count? O, and when i tried to put my X-chamber on, the stupid vert. adapter wouldnt fit in so I had to take a drill bit to the inside of my gun frame to a little more room. I could have gotten a homemade drop, but it looked like crap, and was too shiny for my woodsball prefrences. |
Posted By: Notorious Bob
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 3:44pm
Please. Paintball isn't going down, its just becoming easier for more people to do it. |
Posted By: clayton1
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 4:16pm
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umm my dad makes our drops ------------- cocker shooter PREDATOR PAINTBALL |
Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 4:22pm
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i bought a laredo(a beetle) and going to put a cocker trigger on (not the pb gun the stuff that goes around windows) ------------- 
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Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 4:25pm
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Some homemade mods are just too good of an idea just to give away. I've been working on a project that to my knowledge, no one has ever done. Heck, it might even be a money maker.... Enos. Never saw big ups from you on my muzzle megaphone. Must have missed that one. |
Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 4:27pm
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anyone whos seen my trigger knows better.
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Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 4:34pm
| ^the stick trigger rocks. I was reading an article that made me think of your stick trigger guy. It was a stick trigger but it could be actuated no matter what direction you moved the trigger. scary |
Posted By: JoeG254-PB
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 4:50pm
| Now this isn't my mod but I made my microswitch on my spyder imagine super light instead of buying a 50 gram one. I'm also going to do some more mods. I really have to sit down wih my gun and see what I can do with it. |
Posted By: Trogdor2
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 4:53pm
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I'm on Enos's side. I do lots of custom stuff to my guns. Not enough, bust some...
------------- Something unknown is doing we don't know what. That is what our knowledge amounts to. - Sir Arthur Eddington |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 5:17pm
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trained? no one is trained! |
Posted By: NotDaveEllis
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 5:29pm
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Sure you can do home made mods on a Tippmann, but the way higher end guns are made its impossible to do on them.
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 5:37pm
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EDITED poopy, i cant agree with something he didnt say... |
Posted By: NotDaveEllis
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 5:41pm
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I messed that up.
Edited and fixed now. |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 6:12pm
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Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 6:15pm
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Im working on a new bolt system similar to the automag, but simpler and more gas efficient. If only I could get a financial backer then I would have it done. The bolt system will be uber fast too. Owell, I found a site emachines.com which you make the part in a CAD program, send it to them and they make it(at a cost of course). My 98 bullpup should be done soon, All I need is a drill press and a band saw and the rest will be easy cooking. And I've got in the works a new spankin Punisher 98 Custom (all will be in awe). But yeah the homemade mod era has come and past, but maybe the noobs of today will become the tinkerers of tomarrow. |
Posted By: BradNowell
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 7:10pm
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i made a bi-pod, horrable sight, and i wanna make the drop that enos
made....not orignal but i liked his. Enos can i see some pictures. I
dont remember the details of it
------------- "When I travel through mountainous areas or places of questionable hillbilly population, I usually keep a gun in the vehicle" -Da Hui |
Posted By: ItsJustMe
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 7:12pm
Go to the hardware store and buy the most random shiny silver thingees that you can, and put it all together, and call it "an original upgrade" ------------- <Replaced gigantormous sig with strike, good trade.> |
Posted By: 98God
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 7:23pm
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im working on a trigger right now made out of a belt latch....you know the things on the belt that you put int o the wholes? one of those |
Posted By: Joshy
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 7:31pm
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I don't feel like risking the flawless operation of my $250 gun? Damn, I'm lame.
------------- I guarantee that I am better than you at Halo 2. |
Posted By: Bauerp0weR 18
Date Posted: 18 August 2004 at 7:42pm
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I was thinking of making a custom cocking thing for my A5, but I still need to find a way to make a mold or something to shape it... hmmmmmmm... ------------- Black Smart Parts Ion Halo B Check-It Unimount macroline 68/45 Pure Energy tank |