tippmann toture test
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Topic: tippmann toture test
Posted By: GregL
Subject: tippmann toture test
Date Posted: 25 January 2007 at 6:52pm
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Hey Girls! I havent posted in a while,but I was wondering if you guys had any stories you could tell me about how long your standard out-of-the-box 98c has survived your many years of playing. Has anyone got any stories about your tippmanns being dropped or ranover or anything? My friend dosen't think tippmanns are very reliable. Please help me prove him wrong! |
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Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 25 January 2007 at 7:00pm
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I feel as though I shoudlnt tell you my story since you referred to me as a girl... We dragged my friend's 98c behind his car up and down his road and then came back and played with it. It worked fine. I banged mine off of countless trees, rocks, etc while playing woodsball while I had it. ------------- 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: phil_stl
Date Posted: 25 January 2007 at 7:04pm
Yup were all girl/guys here. |
GregL wrote:Posted By: GregL
Date Posted: 25 January 2007 at 7:11pm
| You GUYS have no since of humor. But aside from that,what are any common problems with your tippmanns? (If any). |
Posted By: jerseypaint
Date Posted: 25 January 2007 at 7:18pm
The whole mysterious break down has been my biggest problem. Its like, if it wants to leak it will, and if it wants to stop, it will. Also, the bolt sticks sometimes, but I lubed it and haven't played since. (I have an A-5 by the way) |
Posted By: hybrid-sniper
Date Posted: 25 January 2007 at 7:19pm
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And what does he think is reliable? |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 25 January 2007 at 7:57pm
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I want to drop my us-5 off the roof of a building onto concrete one day.... willing to bet it will be playable afterwards, maybe a bit scratched. Not sure if you could do that with an a-5 because the grip is platic isin't it? Plus the cyclone would break possibly? I guess it depends on the height. But i'm sure the 98 would be just as strong as my us-5 if not more. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: paintballinbill
Date Posted: 26 January 2007 at 12:19am
my friend, who i've been playing with for 3 years now (we normally play at least once every 2 weeks, from early spring into late fall), has a plain 98 custom, nothing done. last year, i was dropping oil in my ASA, and he asked me what that was all about. i told him that it works well in between field strippings/lubing up the gun. as soon as he heard "field strip" he got that confused look on his face . after i regained my composure, i realized what he was telling me: somehow, he has been able to shoot probably 10 cases through his gun, and not experience a single internal malfunction....i'm anxious to strip it and see the conditions of the internals... ------------- 98 Custom milled;painted;J&J Ceramic;X-Chamber;R/T;Cyclone. |
Posted By: hybrid-sniper
Date Posted: 26 January 2007 at 12:29am
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10 cases is cake. I'd start to be concerned after like 50. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 26 January 2007 at 10:26am
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I've got my old pro-lite which, with the exception of needing a new drive spring and velocity screw after 10 years, hasn't failed me once. I've dropped it in creeks, slammed it into trees, had it fall out of the back of a moving truck on a gravel road, all kinds of stuff.
There's a reason the vast majority of fields use the Pro-lite and the '98 (both tippmann) for their rental markers. They are simply indestructible. We've got original "gilled" '98's out at AG in Leesburg that have had some hammer o-rings replaced, and that's it. Almost 10 straight years of rental abuse with no major repairs. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: an94
Date Posted: 26 January 2007 at 10:15pm
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A guy that I was talking to at the last big game said he found a stock 98c in a pond. said the paint was pealing off, and had mud in the inside of the gun. so he stripped it down put a Ebolt and LPK in it. and now it Rips! Its name is the Silver Tippmann.
------------- 1 paintball gun package=$150 1 case of paint=$50 air & entry fee=$15 lighting up newbies all day long= Priceless |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 26 January 2007 at 10:43pm
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Posted By: an94
Date Posted: 27 January 2007 at 5:50am
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if I had to use a paintball gun to kill, Id use something really cheap like a VL or a spyder. something I would not regret throwing away afterwards, NOT a perfectly good Tippmann. Im willing to bet that two people got into it in a game. afterwards one guy took revenge and threw the other dudes gun in the pond when he wasnt looking. Tippmanns are just like the AKM monkeys/noobs can use both with somewhat success. and they will keep firing when other guns would break down ------------- 1 paintball gun package=$150 1 case of paint=$50 air & entry fee=$15 lighting up newbies all day long= Priceless |
Posted By: Squishey
Date Posted: 29 January 2007 at 2:06am
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my a-5 has been dropped, stepped on, fallen on, and has never had any problems from any of those accidents.
------------- Canadians do it on top. 
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Posted By: Ken Majors
Date Posted: 29 January 2007 at 8:21pm
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I had a 98 that I got used, and all the screws were stripped.
Couldn't take it apart. I never took it apart for over a year. Sold it to a guy and he has had it for probably 2 years now...never been apart. And always works. Not much to look at. But it works like it was new. ------------- RLTW |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 29 January 2007 at 10:43pm
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one of the few tippman 98's I ever used (when I was really young)..... it was a rental, the field that we were playing at had a dessert course with sand.
before that, it fell in a puddle, next it fell in the sand. It got like wet sand down the barrel and feed tube.... still shot perfectly ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: hwayhzrd
Date Posted: 30 January 2007 at 7:53am
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My 98's have been FLAWLESS.
I had an A-5 that was a complete disaster, so much so I sold it at a loss. Haven't played with my X7 yet, review to follow ... soon, hopefully. ------------- If I flee, kill me If I die, avenge me |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 30 January 2007 at 10:04am
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Torture test? I own a 98. That's torture enough... ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: thebuickguy
Date Posted: 04 February 2007 at 5:28am
I bought 5 old prolites rentals from my home field for many reason easy to work on simple to fix. bolt wont open kick it open take a few shots good to go ( had a 68 carbine that got rusted shut thats how i learned that trick  ) in my opinion their the best guns around for reliability just imagine some of the old tippmann rentals are older then some of the new players walking on the field for the first time i think the prolite came out in 92 ? almost sure on that i know it was before 94 honestly old tippmanns and 98s are the AK-47s of paintball they are reliable dependable and the best weapon from newb to oh crap my main gun is down have to go to my back up
------------- Tippmann A-5 SAW stock E grip J&J Ceramic APEX tip Spyder AMG J&J Ceramic Tippmann 68 Carbine J&J Ceramic APEX tip Tippmann Prolite |
Posted By: KillerBD
Date Posted: 04 February 2007 at 11:02pm
Yea the grip is made out of plastic, but not just regular plastic your you TV remote control is made out of. The plastic that the A-5 is made out of is glass reinforced plastic if I'm not mistaken. Read about it, its tuff stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_reinforced_plastic - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_reinforced_plastic Which is the same type of plastic which is used in real military assault rifles like the AK-101: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-101 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-101 ------------- Tippmann A-5: >Tapco CAR stock. >W.A.S. board, E-grip. >Spyder Remote Line. >Smart Parts 20" barrel. >Other custom mods. |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 06 February 2007 at 10:35am
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Heh. Our only 98 is a third generation marker. It was owned by a friend of mine who sold it to another friend. This kid took horrible care of it, and let it get all rusy and paint-encrusted. My brother and I took it from him and cleaned it up a bit, then got creative. We cut off the front grip and added a horizontal wooden foregrip, made it top cocking and cut off the rear sight. It also had the pin that holds the front sight spring in lost, so I replaced it with a toothpick, works fine. One of the pins holding the trigger spring got lost, thats not in with a piece of wooden paintbrush, still works fine. To make it top-cocking we had to drill into the rear bolt.....still works fine.
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 10 February 2007 at 11:18am
Pics? Edit:I have also seen a 98 go through a house fire. It was only the back end of the reciever left though... ------------- 
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Posted By: aGUYnamedLARRY
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 12:33pm
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My very standard, un messed around with 98c has been playing perfectly with me since I was 12. I'm 17 now and still use it all the time. I had one problem with it that took 5 minutes to fix and 5 bucks to repair. I've left it in the rain, dropped it, forgot it in the woods for 4 weeks once. Mine has taken plenty of punishment and has survived with hardly a scratch on it. In fact, I used it last saturday, my 5th shot hit a guy square between the eyes. "the first 4 were just to get his head down".
------------- In a world where everyone has gone mad, only the lunatic is truly sane. |
Posted By: Black_Shadow
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 12:39pm
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A tippmann 98 is pretty much indestructible, if you were going to compare it to a real gun, it would be as reliable as an Ak47, and if anybody has seen the torture tests on the discovery channel, you almost cant break an Ak47. Overall, a 98c can withstand years of people pounding on it... if your friend thinks their not, he should go talk to the 300,000 odd people who own them... ------------- 98CP ACT R/T J&J Ceramic 14" Egg II w Z-Board GTA Inline X-Chamber NCStar Red-Dot Pen Spring Mod Trigger Stops Polished Internals Dye Sticky Grip 20oz Co2 w On/Off Next Up: Spimmy |
Posted By: phil_stl
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 2:33pm
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Hey Greg you got a new title. Join the club!! |
Posted By: GThomas
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 4:15pm
| My 98 has never broken on me and I beat the crap out of it. I also have a Tippmann 68 Special, made in 1986, it still works as if it was brand new. The gun is as old as I am and still running strong, you can't beat Tippmann in durability. |
Posted By: TippmannsRkool9
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 8:17pm
Okay, listen to this, I have a friend with about 5 tippmann 98c's that were never modified, they all work fine, even though they look like they have been sandblasted, ran over, through a garbage compactor, dropped, crushed, dented, and overall just pummeled. But yet, they still work and that really just surprises the heck out of me, accounting that one of his once black tippmann 98c's is now gray and corroding. I have estimated that they could not have gone through any more torture than just being at his house. I always ask him how his markers get that way, but he refuses to tell me. He also has never, ever, cleaned one of them and that really surprised me. ------------- Tippmanns are cool like Dye's are expensive, and JT Protiums are great markers too! |
Posted By: Commander_Cool
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 1:40pm
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ahahaha ------------- 2005 Freestyle Naughty Dawg Freestyle Angel LCD SP-8 Tippmann 98 Custom |
Posted By: Black_Shadow
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 10:52am
i lol'ed *pictures "tippmann tuffness" movie of DT throwing his 98 out the window of his buick while crusing at 110mph* ------------- 98CP ACT R/T J&J Ceramic 14" Egg II w Z-Board GTA Inline X-Chamber NCStar Red-Dot Pen Spring Mod Trigger Stops Polished Internals Dye Sticky Grip 20oz Co2 w On/Off Next Up: Spimmy |