My new gun **Update on page 2**
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Topic: My new gun **Update on page 2**
Posted By: Snick
Subject: My new gun **Update on page 2**
Date Posted: 17 August 2006 at 3:59pm
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Well, I'm back. I was gone for a couple months working at a Christian summer camp. but I did bring something back with me. at the camp they have paintball and they have a ton of 98s that they use as rental guns and I decided to ask how much it would be to buy one. it turned out that it would only cost me 40$ to buy one. so I went for it. it looks really bad on the outside but it works perfectly fine. here it is
I'm not really sure what I want to do to it yet. any suggestions would be appreciated. -------------  
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Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 17 August 2006 at 4:03pm
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Paint it...soon. Then look into a new barrel, RT, and cyclone. ------------- Pumpker'd; (V.) When a pump player runs up and shoots you at point blank range because you thought 20bps made you good. |
Posted By: pimptastik
Date Posted: 17 August 2006 at 4:12pm
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sinisterNorth wrote:Posted By: Dead_George52
Date Posted: 17 August 2006 at 4:13pm
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Interesting, looks like you found it in a lake. I'd leave it like that on the outside, gives it character. May i ask what camp? It sounds very similar to a camp i attended this summer. |
Posted By: paintbusta
Date Posted: 17 August 2006 at 4:25pm
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feedneck?? ------------- 
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Posted By: Snick
Date Posted: 17 August 2006 at 4:35pm
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the name of the camp is River Valley Ranch. its like 30 minutes north of baltimore Maryland. as for if it has a feed neck. yes it has one, I just took it off for the picture. I am definitally going to strip off the rest of the old paint, but after that I'm not sure if I am going to paint it or just polish up the metal. again, any suggestions on how to upgrade/personalize it? I have an A-5 already but I wanted this gun to basicly be my "experiment" gun. -------------
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Posted By: CLos98C
Date Posted: 17 August 2006 at 4:46pm
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If you wanted to personalize it, right now would look like a good time to do some milling/painting...make it look nice. Then maybe go with a barrel, double trigger, and maybe an expansion chamber or dropforward as some beginning upgrades. Then later you can RT or E-bolt it. ------------- 
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Posted By: pbdude985
Date Posted: 17 August 2006 at 4:53pm
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hey for 40 bucks if it works it sounds good to me ------------- 
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Posted By: Ashdawg
Date Posted: 17 August 2006 at 6:28pm
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it looks like urban camo...i like it like it is. Just put a clear coat on it and leave it like that!
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 17 August 2006 at 6:32pm
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You know what would look cool? If you tried to polish the exposed metal splotches. That would be nifty. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: TEHGANGSTER
Date Posted: 17 August 2006 at 6:57pm
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yup, clear coat it
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Posted By: blackdog144
Date Posted: 17 August 2006 at 8:53pm
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good deal...
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Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 17 August 2006 at 8:55pm
| Take as much metal off of it as you can. |
Posted By: Sticky111
Date Posted: 17 August 2006 at 9:37pm
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hey if it works thats good and for $40, nice. as for the paint thats hardly on it, all that means is an easier job for you before you paint it . lol ------------- 
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Posted By: estcstpnt
Date Posted: 17 August 2006 at 10:38pm
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Sick man 40 bills, good deal. ------------- Thinking about it... |
Posted By: callmebobownes
Date Posted: 17 August 2006 at 10:55pm
| lol was it a rental? lol paint, barrel ftw |
Posted By: Cyberdemon
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 1:48pm
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get some new screws for it? cause they are all rusted... ------------- http://imageshack.us"> 
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Posted By: barn_user
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 5:53pm
| Leave it like that and see if you can make it into a "sleeper" gun. Wouldn't that be great? People look at it and label it crap and don't think of you as very good, then you show them up with it. Get a R/T and get a 8 inch lapco bigshot barrel so it looks stock. As for the hopper, well maybe a revvy won't ruin it too much. |
Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 7:55pm
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Posted By: TEHGANGSTER
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 9:08pm
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yup, relocate the battery to a tank cover or front grip *copyright frobs industries 2006, all rights reserved -------------
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Posted By: dirtbike14455
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 9:45pm
| looks like my old 98. I left mine that way cause I thought it looked cool but eventually got it powdercoated. |
Posted By: Snick
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 7:19pm
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Well here is an update of whats going on with my gun so far. I finally got all the old paint off of it and started to do some milling. well, not REALLY milling, it was a LOT of work with a file and a few other basic tools. Sorry to those of you who wanted a "sleeper" gun, by the time alot of you suggested it I had already taken alot of the flaking paint off. anyways, here are the pictures
here is what I have done so far Polished internals now you may ask why I milled the sight railing, here is why. I will never use them so I decided to try an experiment. I milled it so its equal with the metal in front and behind it. the reason is I am going to fill in the gap under the rail with some sort of putty so it will be flush with the metal so the above the main circular chamber will look like below the main chamber. I will probably also use some putty to fill in the warning words so it can be flush. and a couple other random things like that random circle above the right grip and near the sight in that annoying dip. I cut straight back so that normally you can't see the dip, but if you look at it from the top ( like the third picture) you can still see it. I don't know why but that little dip that you always see on most milled sights really bothers me, so I am gonna try to get rid of it entirly anyways, sorry about the doctoral thesis of a post. please let me know what you think about my plans for the gun and feel free to suggest more things to do to it -------------
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Posted By: dirtbike14455
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 8:22pm
i liek the mill cause its pretty much whats on my gun 
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Posted By: blackdog144
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 8:24pm
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nice
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Posted By: MagnumPeanut
Date Posted: 22 August 2006 at 1:02am
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I'd have a hayday with that gun. I wish I could find another 98 for $40. As it is I went town on mine. I want to try it again now that I know what I'm doing, I have some cool ideas. There is some good milling work so far. I would go farther. Take off all the lettering and the finger grooves on the front grip. Also get a cheap tube of JB weld and fill in all the silly lettering. Do either a flat jet black paintjob or olive drab (Duracoat is awesome) and use the best primer you can get. ------------- 
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Posted By: estcstpnt
Date Posted: 22 August 2006 at 8:15pm
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Nasty. I want to find the cheapest gun I can and make it a complete project gun. Like yours. What color do you plan on painting it? Sorry if its already been said. ------------- Thinking about it... |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 22 August 2006 at 8:57pm
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I really want to find the most raped98 custom out there and customize it to no end. But as worse as possible. And $40 would be too much ------------- 
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Posted By: Snick
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 9:32am
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Estcstpnt, I have been contemplating what color to pick for a while now. for a little I was thinking of silver, but then I decided against it and am currently thinking either dark blue or dark green. oh and today I think I will work on fileing down "98 custom" and I may file down the rest of the volocity lip, depending on if I feel like it after I'm done with the lettering. once I am done all that I may move on to the front grip. though I will probably only do the second groove on the grip, I want to leave the first one there. once all that is done I will probably start on filling in some of the stuff with putty that I mentioned in my last post -------------
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Posted By: zbusse
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 12:27pm
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i can't wait to see it painted. ------------- A-5 (soon to be custom white) R/t X-chamber shocktech drop PMI Razzor (i know, not the best) |
Posted By: tippmannfreak
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 12:34pm
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paint it gun metal grey, not the goofy silver that you can get a 98 as, but actually gun metal grey. either that or polish the bare metal, it's alotta work but, if u get there it's beautifull... ------------- Tippmann 98 Custom Psycho Ballistics X-Chamber P.B. Drop Forward Polished internals Lapco Bigshot 12" Macro Line Rufus Dog Double Trigger Dye Stickies Polished Receiver Halves |
Posted By: zbusse
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 12:38pm
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paint it white! ------------- A-5 (soon to be custom white) R/t X-chamber shocktech drop PMI Razzor (i know, not the best) |
Posted By: Snick
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 1:08pm
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I would just polish up the metal but it would look weird with the putty I will be putting in the lettering on the right receiver and in the slit for the bigger sight rails although if I could just find a paint that is a similar color I could just paint the putty after it dries up...... -------------
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