A5 flatline rumor i heard
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Topic: A5 flatline rumor i heard
Posted By: junojpeg
Subject: A5 flatline rumor i heard
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 2:46pm
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I have recently bought a flatline barrel and when I was first shooting it, it never broke a ball, but on my last broke. I heard a rumor that once you break a ball with one the barrel will not shoot right again, even if you cleam it. This sounds stupid I know, but I don't have anymore paintballs to test the rumor. So I was curious if it is true.
------------- Woodsball: Tippmann A-5 Responce Trigger Flatline Barrel Speed/Airball: Tippmann A-5 Responce Trigger 14'Empire Twister Barrel |
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Posted By: whack-a-mole
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 3:37pm
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No. Just clean it and it will be fine. ------------- NASA and the Americans spent millions of dollars and hundreds of hours to develop a pen that would write in space.....The Russians used a pencil. |
Posted By: junojpeg
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 3:43pm
Thanx dude, I am going to kill my cousin for telling me that
------------- Woodsball: Tippmann A-5 Responce Trigger Flatline Barrel Speed/Airball: Tippmann A-5 Responce Trigger 14'Empire Twister Barrel |
Posted By: whack-a-mole
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 3:50pm
No problem.  ------------- NASA and the Americans spent millions of dollars and hundreds of hours to develop a pen that would write in space.....The Russians used a pencil. |
Posted By: BrandonF
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 4:28pm
| Yeah, it might not shoot right if there's a glob of paint blocking the barrel, but it doesn't make any sense for the barrel to never shoot right again because of that... |
Posted By: PaintballPIMPIN
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 4:51pm
| if that was the case, barrel makers would be richer. |
Posted By: Ashdawg
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 4:57pm
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don't ever listen to your cousin again. he sounds very unexperienced.
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Posted By: junojpeg
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 6:06pm
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Believe me, my cousin has it coming.
------------- Woodsball: Tippmann A-5 Responce Trigger Flatline Barrel Speed/Airball: Tippmann A-5 Responce Trigger 14'Empire Twister Barrel |
Posted By: RavenGuard
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 6:25pm
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Just make sure you clean the barrel with water and not just squeegie it. Flatlines especially need to be soaked a few times to make sure they're clean :)
------------- Tippmann A-5 Polished Internals E-Grip Ape Board JCS Blade Trigger QEV 8" Bigshot + Apex Ricochet R-5 / Tac Cap Palmers Stabilizer 68/4500 Crossfire |
Posted By: Bruce A. Frank
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 6:27pm
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You broke a ball in a Flatline!!! That is never supposed to happen!!! It is so unexpected that there isn't even a way to fix it!!! It will never shoot straight again!!! Your only solution is to buy a new barrel!!! And even with a new barrel, don't let the old contaminated one lie close to it because it will contaminate the new one...requiring you to buy a third. Get rid of that contaminated barrel before you even get the new one in the house. I'll take it off your hands and you won't have to pay me a cent. Heck, out of the kindness of my heart I'll even pay the shipping. Just trying to help you out here so that that contaminated barrel doesn't ruin the rest of your paintball playing life. Now, don't you feel properly embarrassed to have even asked such a question. Your cousin does that to you all the time, doesn't he? Why do you listen???
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junojpeg wrote:Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 7:04pm
I gave mine away after I broke a ball in it.... ------------- A-5 E-Grip JCS Dual Trigger DOP X-CORE 8 stage x-chamber Lapco Bigshot 14" Beadblasted Optional setup: R/T Dead on Blade trigger |
Posted By: TheBaldGuy
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 7:45pm
| I'd say the cousin needs about a hopper full of RT in the butt for that. |
Posted By: PaintballPIMPIN
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 7:56pm
| yeah, and on the iner thigh for me |
Posted By: WanksterFlanker
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 8:01pm
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what i have heard about the Flatline is that since the inside of it is textured; over a period time that rough surface begins to wear out and the quality of your shots slowly goes to **edited**. ------------- A5 E-trigger x-chamber APP Monster Sight Feeder 14" Lapco Snapshot barrel |
Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 8:37pm
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THats when you send it in to tippmann and they resandblast the inside for free and it shoots like new again ------------- A-5 E-Grip JCS Dual Trigger DOP X-CORE 8 stage x-chamber Lapco Bigshot 14" Beadblasted Optional setup: R/T Dead on Blade trigger |
Posted By: WanksterFlanker
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 8:58pm
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that's natural wear. That's included in the warranty? if Tippmann will re-surface that for free, then that's nice. Have they done that for you? ------------- A5 E-trigger x-chamber APP Monster Sight Feeder 14" Lapco Snapshot barrel |
Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 9:13pm
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Yes its included in the warranty. Yes they do it for free. No they havent done it for me, I dont have a flatline. ------------- A-5 E-Grip JCS Dual Trigger DOP X-CORE 8 stage x-chamber Lapco Bigshot 14" Beadblasted Optional setup: R/T Dead on Blade trigger |
Posted By: puck
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 11:14pm
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yea they do it for free...but you pay shipping. I'd make my cousin pay the shipping if I were you ------------- I didnt even see him there... |
Posted By: Bruce A. Frank
Date Posted: 20 March 2006 at 2:13am
It takes 100,000 to 200,000 rounds through it to "wear" it out. I bought my first Flatline used. They still resurfaced it for free. -------------
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