New Tippmann chopping balls
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Topic: New Tippmann chopping balls
Posted By: Iamstormtrooper
Subject: New Tippmann chopping balls
Date Posted: 01 August 2005 at 1:46am
My new Tippmann with egrip keeps on chopping balls. The gun is still new. Today was the first day that I even used it. I have tried three different types on balls with it Carnage, PMI Big balls, and some other type of zap paint. Firing speed didn't seem to affect the balls being chopped. One time it chopped the ball on the first shot after I fully cleaned it.  Could it be a paint problem. Or is there something else wrong with the gun. I would also like to add that at the end of the day I fired two hoppers full of last months paint with no problems. This paint was left in the heat and was really soft and not every ball was round. But that was the best the gun did. The whole day sucked can someone please help.
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Posted By: Millslane
Date Posted: 01 August 2005 at 11:14am
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whats your gun setup? is it stock? do you have any aftermarker parts
like a new barrel on it? list everything that you hade installed that
day other than a stock A-5.
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Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 01 August 2005 at 12:52pm
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was it an a-5 e-grip or was it a custom pro? ------------- http://www.anomationanodizing.com - My Site 
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Posted By: Iamstormtrooper
Date Posted: 01 August 2005 at 2:13pm
| My gun is totally stock except for the EGrip. The balls where chopped right in half. Someone told me that it might be a bent rod in my feeder. So I checked that out and all looked okay. There was a small ammount of tightness right before the manual advance feed comes all the way out, but the ammount is very slight. And yes the Egrip is for the A5, unless tippmann gave me the wronge one. But yea it came on the gun from tippmann |
Posted By: rossy11223
Date Posted: 01 August 2005 at 2:38pm
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An electric hopper usually helps out a lot, even if you don't need to fire fast. It could also be the ball detent is a little weak and it is letting two balls through and the second is getting chopped. I can't see that happening though because your gun is new. |
Posted By: solxion
Date Posted: 01 August 2005 at 2:53pm
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Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 01 August 2005 at 3:34pm
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send it back to Tippmann.
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Posted By: A5 Man
Date Posted: 01 August 2005 at 5:42pm
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no maybe your velocitey is to high because i have a A5 and i never broke a ball with it yet
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Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 01 August 2005 at 9:41pm
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high velocity won't chop balls. It will break them in the barrel. His A-5 is getting half feeds and chops. Way to read the post. ------------- http://www.anomationanodizing.com - My Site
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Posted By: Iamstormtrooper
Date Posted: 02 August 2005 at 1:28am
| Okay I called tippmann they told me to send the gun in. Hopefully I can get it back friday, but I doubt it. I can deal with a gun not being acurate or being slow. But I draw the line at chopping balls. That is my pet peive. Does anyone else out there have this problem with their tippmann and the egrip? Or is everyone satisfied with their guns? |
Posted By: rossy11223
Date Posted: 02 August 2005 at 12:32pm
| I am completely satisfied with my 98c r/t. I have used it without an electric hopper and it doesn't chop, it will just dryfire a few times between every shot. I'm getting a revvy to fix that problem. |
Posted By: jgacs
Date Posted: 02 August 2005 at 9:01pm
| Where did u buy ur paint? i think ur paint is old stock, maybe. |
Posted By: tippy279
Date Posted: 03 August 2005 at 9:48pm
Hello? The A-5 uses a cyclone feed. Check for a rigid part on the face of the bolt and follow the track of your cyclone and see why the balls arent getting centered correctly. Also check the hose form the gun to the cyclone if its severed then not enough gas will get to the cyclone and it will only partially turn. ------------- My guns name is Mr. Max in remembrance of my dog that got hit by a car: Tippmann A-5 Ricochet R-5 JCS double Trigger Tippmann E-Grip Flatline Barrel Do you have the need for speed? |
rossy11223 wrote:Posted By: rossy11223
Date Posted: 03 August 2005 at 9:51pm
Sorry! I make mistakes too and I just forgot that he had an A-5. |
Posted By: woodzballer08
Date Posted: 04 August 2005 at 3:40pm
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you have an e-grip, read the directions for tuning the e-grip. ------------- Getting bunkered is like having sex in prision; it will happen weather you like it or not. |
Posted By: Bruce A. Frank
Date Posted: 14 August 2005 at 2:12am
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What hopper are you using? |