c-3 is it dangerous?
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Topic: c-3 is it dangerous?
Posted By: mat10590
Subject: c-3 is it dangerous?
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 4:39pm
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i dont mean to be a traitor i trust my life with my 98c but propane just makes me feel uncomfortable lets here wat you have to say
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under normal use i think it would fine but my gun has taken some major abuse that i would not think of trying with a gun with propane strapped to it Replies:
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 4:41pm
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this has been brought up before, and do you really believe that a major company like tippmann would produce a product like that without extensive research? it doesnt make sense to produces something that would hurt its reputation and customers. also, every paintball gun is dangerous if misused. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: .Zesty
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 4:47pm
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Could this happen?
You hold up lighter at the end of the barrel and dry shoot the gun. That would cause a pretty nice size fireball. I'm not sure how big. That fires follows the propne throughout the gun and ignites inside of the tank. Since the propane would be compressed it would cause an explosion. ------------- Treadway to the hills! I really hate PROCARBINEFREAK |
Posted By: mat10590
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 4:48pm
| wat im saying is if you had some stuctural damage or enev a crack it could very easly become dangerous |
Posted By: .Zesty
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 4:50pm
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I'm not talking about the gas getting into the air. Read my first
post. ------------- Treadway to the hills! I really hate PROCARBINEFREAK |
Posted By: mat10590
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 4:55pm
| i dont think it would blow up unless it had some kind of internal leak |
Posted By: mat10590
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 4:57pm
| it doesnt put out any un burnt propane any way unless the ignition was broken and propane is hard to light with a small open flame |
Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 4:58pm
| It wont blow up, and holding a lighter at the end when you shoot wont do anything. The propane is already ignited inside the marker so its not like your shooting flammable gasses. |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 5:41pm
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not to mention, the amount of propane it uses is EXTREMELY SMALL. it has to be to get 50,000 shots on a 16 oz cylinder. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 5:50pm
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it's very dangerous. one blew up at the park down the road yesterday. many were injured... come on, how would tippmann get approval to manufacture and sell a product that held great danger to it's users? ------------- 
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Posted By: karnivor
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 6:03pm
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you know whats really dangerous? when mat10590
cant seem to find the edit button.... ------------- http://imageshack.us"> 
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Posted By: Trogdor2
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 7:15pm
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ZOMGA! mInE 'SPOLDED!@!!!
------------- Something unknown is doing we don't know what. That is what our knowledge amounts to. - Sir Arthur Eddington |
Posted By: Mr.Shake56
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 7:27pm
| i think it might be dangerous and also voltage can you give more detail on the accident |
Posted By: GoTsKiLLz
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 8:25pm
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hehe...at least u might be able to use ur propane tank for a quick lil BBQ. for like a lil piece of chicken that would OwN! -------------  
My DM7 and PM6. :) |
Posted By: youm0nt
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 9:08pm
| No. |
Posted By: GoTsKiLLz
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 10:07pm
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haha dont hate -------------
My DM7 and PM6. :) |
youm0nt wrote:Posted By: devil-fire
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 10:45pm
was just going to say that!  ------------- 98% of paintballers act gangsta', if you are of the 2% that are normal, put this this in your sig. |
Posted By: pbdude985
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 10:48pm
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i am sure if their was a chance of it blowing up they would not release it. ------------- 
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Posted By: TruePaintballer
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 11:36pm
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agreed...i mean why would they release something that wasn't throughly tested and could result in a massive law suit? ------------- http://www.freewebs.com/outlawspaintball/index.htm - Outlaws *Sponsors* http://www.abrika.ca - Abrika |
Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 11:36pm
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yup... tippmann engineers just strapped a spark plug and a propane tank to a gun and called it a day.... and if you hold a lighter to the end of the barrel the air that comes out would simply blow out the lighter... all the combustion is inside and it uses the expanding left over gasses which are inert to propel the ball. it's perfectly safe as long as you're not smoking a cigar while bashing the tank against a rock... |
Posted By: Blue Hopper
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 1:16am
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Oh yeah those c3s are so dangerous i hear the governments going to have
secret agents pretend to be arms dealers and sell c3's to insurgents on
a pretend black market for in hope that they'll kill themselves before
reaching iraq. Or maybee i made all that up and its just a bunch of
bullcrap which I'm not saying I did but I did. But honestly its not a
big deal to use propane, who knows anytime you unscrew your co2 tank
the tank could uscrew from the valve launch like a rocket and take your
head off. |
Posted By: Corvette
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 1:22am
| 5 or 6 years down the road, when these guns get old and dirty, I can see them getting more dangerous. |
Posted By: Blue Hopper
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 1:57am
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Posted By: Homer J
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 2:41am
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Leik u culd us it as an flamthrowar!1
Recall it@!!! |
Posted By: Hoytshooter
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 9:14am
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ZOMG!!!1!111!! LIEK JUST TAKE OFF TEH BARREL AND LIGHT IT ON FIRE!!111!!!!!1!!!1!1!! ------------- I shoot a Hoyt http://img414.imageshack.us/my.php?image=theusgovrnsucks6xn.png"> 
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Posted By: Jim Paint
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 1:06pm
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Mine exploded. I died. ------------- 
saepe fidelis |
Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 1:11pm
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This is a photo of the C3 when it messes up.
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Posted By: mat10590
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 1:31pm
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^^^i like the pic but im with corvette in the future they could cause some problems ------------- http://www.sloganizer.net/en/ - [IMG - http://www.sloganizer.net/en/style1,Mat10590.png - i do everthing full auto.....yes that includes stealthy |
Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 3:48pm
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I'd feel a lot safer bashing a propane tank against a rock than a CO2, or HPA tank. Those would actually expolde if ruptered. A propane tank doesn't have enough pressure to really go boom from being punctured.
I once decided to try to get on to go boom by lighting a candle next to it, then going back and shooting it with a high powered rifle. All it did was make a big, smelly cloud and blow out the candle. The concentration of propane was so high, there wasn't enough air in the mixture to ignite. The tank just had a .310" hole in the front of it an about a 2" hole in the back. It didn't fragment or anything. I also tried a similar thing with a green gas can for airsoft(same stuff, only when you shoot a gas powered airsoft gun over a candle, it WILL be a flamethrower). I wrapped it in newpaper, set it in fire, and shot it with a .22. It fell over and sprouted a 3 foot flame that burned for a while. No explosion. I'd feel safe with a C3. |
Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 4:04pm
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Posted By: Dye Playa
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 6:13pm
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i rofled at that too ------------- 
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Posted By: djrock
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 6:41pm
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It's probably not the first paintball product to injury someone. ------------- 
It's been changed jackass. |
Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 7:10pm
hell, you could misuse damn near anything and get killed, if people didnt take these risks, what would be the point of technology? |
Posted By: the_blade
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 9:04pm
Lmao for some reason I got a hard laugh out of that. ------------- 95 base neon 3.0 cai, knifedged crankshaft 60 mill throttle body,14 crane cam crane springs/retainers eagle rods port matched/ polished intake p&p head shaved .015 phantom grip diff dohc exuast |
Posted By: Cheetos3254
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 9:07pm
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NO! ------------- 
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Posted By: Smitty
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 9:21pm
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Posted By: .Zesty
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 9:49pm
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You know what Smitty, I hope you shoot one and it blows your
fother mucking head off! ------------- Treadway to the hills! I really hate PROCARBINEFREAK |
Posted By: mat10590
Date Posted: 19 December 2005 at 4:41pm
has any one noticed its name bears a stiking resembalence (i kno its spelled wrong) to its counter part C-4  ------------- http://www.sloganizer.net/en/ - [IMG - http://www.sloganizer.net/en/style1,Mat10590.png - i do everthing full auto.....yes that includes stealthy |