Recocking problem with low pressure kit??
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Topic: Recocking problem with low pressure kit??
Posted By: nosfed360
Subject: Recocking problem with low pressure kit??
Date Posted: 07 April 2005 at 9:45pm
| I just installed the low pressure kit on my a-5 with a palmer fatty reg and a crossfire 68/3000 tank. The gun works 99 percent of the time with paint in it, but it won't dryfire without putting your hand over the barrel to provide backpressure. If you don't, the guns just goes uncontrollably auto-fire and i have to either cut the air, or grab the handle to recock it before it runs my tank dry. Every now and then, it will even does this with paint in it, causing a paintball chopping mess that is a pain to clean. Now, I've been looking into this LPK for a while and tippmann never mentioned not being able to dry fire thegun due to backpressure problems, this is simply a pain in the neck (running low on paintballs before simply meant a dryfire mixed in with some shots, letting me know my hopper was almost out......now it means stripping the marker to clean the dang thing). Anyone come across this problem and fixed/improved it. Also, would putting a lighter rear spring in help, since this would cause less force being needed to recock the gun? |
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Posted By: BobbyG
Date Posted: 07 April 2005 at 10:47pm
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Have you done a Front Velocity Adjuster mod ?? Give me more info on your entire gun setup. ------------- My A-5 : http://img114.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img114&image=a5withdesciptionsnew18xu.jpg"> 
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Posted By: nosfed360
Date Posted: 08 April 2005 at 6:41am
a-5 with e-grip, jcs double trigger, 6 position car stock, nw spoon drop forward, palmer fatty reg set around 300, LPK, and that's about it. I did notice that the cocking knob seems to have the slightest little stick when I first pull back on it. I don't really remember if it had that before I did the LPK because it was running fine so I wasn't paying attention to that. As soon as I pull back and it starts moving though.....it's smooth after that. |
BobbyG wrote:Posted By: LordJovian
Date Posted: 08 April 2005 at 6:54am
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There's part of the problem- Tippmann in the manual suggests the reg be set to a minimum of 325 psi. It would also help to polish the internals. I had the same problem, but mine was due to an x-chamber converted to a volumizer. I got it working perfectly after some amount of work. ------------- A-5 E-grip Chipley Custom Carbon Graphite 16" Evil Adapter(Spyder) 32 Deg New '03 XChamber Remote Line Gun Sling Sniper f/x Stock LPK 68/4500 HPA R-5 CP Reg JCS Duel Trigger |
Posted By: nosfed360
Date Posted: 08 April 2005 at 2:15pm
I called tippmann and they told me about the pressure also.....I forgot to mention in my post however that I've had the reg set from 300 to 450 with no change. Tippmann seems to think it is either a bad reg, or a problem with the srping pressure since I am using an aftermarket stock. |
Posted By: RoughNeck
Date Posted: 18 March 2006 at 10:54am
| I recently had the same problem. I took my A-5, with an e-grip, flatline barrell, to the local paintball store, and had them install the Lpk, with a cp reg. My gun went into auto fire mode and would not stop, My friend also brought his gun exact same setup as mine, and we tried it on his and his worked fine, the only difference between our guns is that my e-grip has the two turn dials inside it. And his is the newer one with the button and LED. The guy at the store said he has never had this problem before, and he spent 3.5 hours trying different parts, regs, kits, sears, power tubes. Nothing worked so he said he would send into tippmann, and they would fix it for free, but would not tell him what is wrong with it. And he set all the pressures to what tippmann wants them to be, they even called tippmann to verify everything they did was correct, and it was. The only part we did not swap was the entire e-grip, should have but didn't. |
Posted By: Bruce A. Frank
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 7:18pm
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If you saw a pressure increase on the LP gauge when the turned the regulator up then there is likely nothing wrong with it. Have you oiled the "O" ring on the hammer? The after-market stock may interfer with the spring. Also run a few drops of oil through the regulator. -------------  
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Posted By: old fart
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 7:47pm
| sounds like a slight missallignment in your powervalve preventing the rear bolt from seating properly |
Posted By: Bruce A. Frank
Date Posted: 20 March 2006 at 12:15am
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Please enlighten me on how one can misalign the power valve inside the power tube with the shells bolted closed around it and the valve screws installed holding the valve in position? -------------
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Posted By: Ilford Rule
Date Posted: 21 March 2006 at 9:48pm
Bruce is right (as always. sorry for sucking up, im not trying to. its just true  )Its not possible to misaligh the power valve and actually reassemble the marker. Heck, you can't even get the gas line in if its wrong. ------------- CPro (w/ polished internals) 14" Bigshot BT SBS Various Rails NcSTAR D4B Macro AA 68/45 
CCI Phantom 45 Grips |