flatline
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Category: Paintball Equipment
Forum Name: Gun Maintenace and Repair
Forum Description: Important info for keeping your marker in top shape
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Topic: flatline
Posted By: Decay67
Subject: flatline
Date Posted: 01 October 2005 at 6:36pm
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i got a custom 98 and i got a flatline on it and the paintballs keeps breaking everytime i play and shoot i want it to stop i think i installed it wrong but can someone help me out ------------- MY Setup 98c 200 hopper FLATLINE BAREL 16 OZ tank |
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Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 01 October 2005 at 6:42pm
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what grade do they teach you what a comma is, or a period??? let me do this in a language you can understand. OMG u prolly have the velocity up to high and its breaking balls in the barrle or you are using really crappy paint buy better paint and turn down your velocity ------------- http://www.anomationanodizing.com - My Site 
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Posted By: Decay67
Date Posted: 02 October 2005 at 2:59pm
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I have the volicty at like 220 thats not high ------------- MY Setup 98c 200 hopper FLATLINE BAREL 16 OZ tank |
Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 02 October 2005 at 8:25pm
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its installed wrong. Take it off and try again.
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Posted By: svillesoccer16
Date Posted: 03 October 2005 at 4:46pm
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220 isnt soposed to be arround 260 for a flatline ------------- tippmann 98 custom bullet drop forward 20 oz. co2 http://www.sloganizer.net/en/"> 
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Posted By: GRRWingNut
Date Posted: 03 October 2005 at 5:21pm
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Yeah, try taking it off and putting it back on, that may help. Every flatline's velocity will be a bit different, but most of them perform the best between 245-265 fps. The flatline barrels are also very, very picky about what you feed them. If it's a brittle shell paint, it will break frequently. Try using Marbs, or Evils, or comparable grades....those seem to be universally accepted. jj ------------- A5RT Specops A5A2 kit Soon a Flatline with UMS shroud, and Specops F.O.G. grip |
Posted By: A-5_massacre
Date Posted: 05 October 2005 at 8:00pm
| The first mistake you made was buying a flatline. You should have got another after market barrel such as the all american or freak. |
Posted By: Bruce A. Frank
Date Posted: 05 October 2005 at 10:32pm
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OK, we get your point, you don't like the Flatline. I gather that from several posts where you say the same thing. What's the matter, get shot out by a Flatline? |
A-5_massacre wrote:Posted By: A-5_massacre
Date Posted: 06 October 2005 at 1:35am
| Your first mistake was buying a flatline. They are very unreliable and slow. You should get a sceptor or freak barrel. |
Posted By: duffer1497
Date Posted: 06 October 2005 at 2:33pm
| my flatline is fine im at 280-300 with an r/t i have no problems ECEPT when im low on air other than i change tanks and im back makeing people unhappy with me. Reinstall it you should be fine |
Posted By: duffer1497
Date Posted: 06 October 2005 at 2:34pm
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Posted By: A-5_massacre
Date Posted: 07 October 2005 at 1:16am
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Actually I shot the **edited** out of someone with the flatline from 30 ft. away and I was using my friends VL Orion. So ya, I think they suck and you guys don't know what the **edited** your talking about. If anyone gets tagged out by a flatline then that is sad, according to my experience. And by the way yes, i do have a flatline, although I never use it. It even performes poorly with my A-5. I am better off with an All American or a Freak. |
Posted By: duffer1497
Date Posted: 07 October 2005 at 10:55pm
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Posted By: duffer1497
Date Posted: 07 October 2005 at 10:56pm
dont lie you did get out shot with a flatline didnt you 
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Posted By: Buder
Date Posted: 08 October 2005 at 11:08pm
| My flatline is freakin awesome, and is not picky with paint. I had this problem and all you have to do is make sure the barrel is pushed all the way into the sleeve. It should stop breaking paint. |
Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 08 October 2005 at 11:56pm
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Posted By: tippmann98brawl
Date Posted: 09 October 2005 at 10:32pm
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i jus went paintballin with my flatline, i was shootin 260 and i only broke a few balls the whole day.... it really not a bad barrel ------------- 98c R/T L/P Flatline Barrel 2x Trigger Evolution II hopper Pure Energy 68ci 5000psi HPA |
Posted By: Millslane
Date Posted: 10 October 2005 at 12:25pm
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i fail to understand some people. in this thread, its A-5_massacre. Why in world you you think that the reason you shot out a person with t flatline barrel from 30 feet, means that the flatline was the reason? the reason you shot out the person with the flatline from 30 feet away is becuase the player wasn't very good, or didn't see you or something like that. it had absoutly nothing to do with the fact he was using a flatline. at 30 feet, the stock barrel could have taken you out. when will people learn that its not the equiptment, its the player. i play with guys who play stock class pump on speedball fields. For those of you who don't know what that means, stock class is only the ability to hold 10 or 15 rounds on your gun max. sir supply is from a 12 gram. and you have to rock and cock the marker to load the next ball inbetween each shot. hows that for hard? These guys will eliminate 2-4 of the opposing team, while only shooing 10 balls total. do you think its the gun? don't be silly. i can't do this becuase i'm not that good. but they are. i'm also not knocking speedballers here, they will take out any semi players. I have personally been taken to school by them. heck, one of them loads each ball seprately. one at a time. takes a shot, reaches into his pocket and drops another in. unbelievable. so next time you think that you eliminated that player becuase you spend x amount of dollars on your gun or you can shoot xx bps, just remember, its you not your gun. i would think people would take more pride in the fact that they actually good and its not their gun. end rant ------------- www.pbteamwow.com |
Posted By: duffer1497
Date Posted: 10 October 2005 at 10:09pm
| mills you are 100% right. when i got into paintball i had a pos pumpgun i went up against some one who had a bob long needless to say he went to school and got his can handed to him.I have a vaste knowledge of guns and how to shoot money bags didnt. |
Posted By: aGUYnamedLARRY
Date Posted: 12 October 2005 at 1:12am
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I use xball bronze in my flatline. Xball silver worked fine but it didn't like to break long distance. I've shot about 1500 to 2000 shots through it and haven't broke a single ball. Just a thought... wouldn't the first half of the barrel put a huge FRONT spin on the ball? Cause it hits the bottom part of the barrel pretty hard. ------------- In a world where everyone has gone mad, only the lunatic is truly sane. |