Crazy Spikes
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Topic: Crazy Spikes
Posted By: HeadshotJester
Subject: Crazy Spikes
Date Posted: 30 July 2005 at 6:42pm
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Ok so today I went to play paintball with my new Flatline. So i'm chronoing and I shoot it and it says 160 so i turned it up and it went to 270 and shot a couple more times and my Flatline was spikeing 468!!! I was like uhh ref look at this and 1/5 shots it spiked up to over 400 so the ref was like w/e your playing with frens they won't care. but idk if it was a spike or the backspin tricked the chrono or what. Does anyone have any experience with that? ------------- http://imageshack.us"> 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 30 July 2005 at 6:51pm
| That ref sounds like an idiot first off, I wouldnt trust him with my safety. Anyway, I'd make sure the chrono wasnt messed up first. |
Posted By: HeadshotJester
Date Posted: 30 July 2005 at 6:55pm
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No it wasn't and the ref figured it wasn't really shooting 468 fps because it didn't go any farther. But the chrono works perfectly. ------------- http://imageshack.us">
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 30 July 2005 at 8:05pm
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Sounds like your gun was sucking major liquid, or your missing your valve bolts.
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Posted By: Millslane
Date Posted: 30 July 2005 at 8:32pm
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it has to be something with the gun internals, air supply or the
chrono. the flatline doesn't trick the chrono. i have never had any
problems with that. only spiking i have had was due to inconistancy of
Co2.
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Posted By: ^Pirate^
Date Posted: 30 July 2005 at 8:46pm
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Millslane wrote:Posted By: HeadshotJester
Date Posted: 30 July 2005 at 9:07pm
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well i know that but my velocity screw is fine and it wasn't spikes because it was a fresh tank and just screwed it on parallel with the ground. filled with valve up it was never pointed down. ------------- http://imageshack.us">
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Posted By: A-5 08
Date Posted: 30 July 2005 at 9:21pm
| There was something going on with your internals. . . |
Posted By: HeadshotJester
Date Posted: 30 July 2005 at 9:23pm
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After I told my friends my chrono they didn't belive me and they soon found out that sometimes it spikes because i shot one of my friends off the break in the stomach and he had a welt the size of an orange! I'd show you a pic but I didn;t have a camera. ------------- http://imageshack.us">
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Posted By: A-5 08
Date Posted: 30 July 2005 at 9:25pm
| If we're talking 400+ i think an orange is an understatement. We're talking craacking lenses and major breaking of skin. Not safe have your local proshop take a look at it. |
Posted By: HeadshotJester
Date Posted: 30 July 2005 at 9:34pm
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It was from wall to wall. But yea i think I will have it looked at tomorrow but its funny to watch the flatline just float paintballs across the field they do all kinds of spirals and stuff in the air and end up going where you aimed. Tippmann took this barrel past science and into an artform. ------------- http://imageshack.us">
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Posted By: DarkSideEchoes
Date Posted: 30 July 2005 at 9:59pm
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Goggles must be tested at least at 500 fps. It's a safety law. ------------- 
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Posted By: Millslane
Date Posted: 30 July 2005 at 11:16pm
yeah, but i have still seen then crack a few times with hot shooters and they weren't shooting 500 fps. they were in the high 300's ------------- www.pbteamwow.com |
Posted By: nunrleft
Date Posted: 30 July 2005 at 11:46pm
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Sounds like somebody overfilled your co2 tank. ------------- www.mnmilitia.com http://www.mnmilitia.com/index.php?page_id=37 - ME http://www.mnmilitia.com/forums/ - Our Forum |
Posted By: tigman250
Date Posted: 30 July 2005 at 11:47pm
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this is nothing to mess with get it checked out. like enos said are the 2 valve bolts on the right side of the gun in? ------------- http://img76.imageshack.us/my.php?image=stickemup6of.jpg"> 
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Posted By: Millslane
Date Posted: 31 July 2005 at 2:01am
i saw that exact thing happen to a 98 2 weeks ago. one of the valve screws blew out and we didn't notice. it spiked so high and then shot low then 400's again. it was missing 1 valve screw ------------- www.pbteamwow.com |
Posted By: hybrid-sniper
Date Posted: 31 July 2005 at 7:18pm
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Lenses weaken over time. Pollution in the air and being hit in the lens one too many times will crack them or cause them to crack. |
Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 31 July 2005 at 8:23pm
Sometimes we play at 400 ish, (no chrono,to cheap and stupid to buy one). You get welts, but we only break skin if we are 5 to 10 feet way. |
Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 31 July 2005 at 8:27pm
| Your refs must have the mental capacity of a 4 year old. |
Posted By: HeadshotJester
Date Posted: 31 July 2005 at 8:42pm
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Okay I went back to play again today and the ref said it was just because I shot so much C02 out the end of my barrel (like a big cloud) that it messed with the chrono. ------------- http://imageshack.us">
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Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 31 July 2005 at 8:46pm
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Once again, the reffing staff up there sucks. What type of chrono were you susing? |
Posted By: HeadshotJester
Date Posted: 31 July 2005 at 8:50pm
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idk it was like a stationary one on a table. but iot really wasn't going 468 because the paintballs didn't go any farther. ------------- http://imageshack.us">
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Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 31 July 2005 at 8:51pm
| If it was the stationary one and the end of the barrel was at least 2" past the chrono you shouln't have any problems with c02 messing it up. |
Posted By: Cheetos3254
Date Posted: 01 August 2005 at 1:15pm
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yea take it to the proshop and dont play with it until
you get it fixed. You could really hurt someone. also that ref does SUCK ------------- 
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Posted By: CIA356
Date Posted: 01 August 2005 at 1:59pm
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man don't risk it get it checked I would rather get it checked than to shoot out a friends eye. But maybe thats just me. ------------- 
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