Need help: pmr + reballs?
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Topic: Need help: pmr + reballs?
Posted By: 3442
Subject: Need help: pmr + reballs?
Date Posted: 06 February 2007 at 9:01pm
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My moms pmr cant shoot reballs! I load the hopper, air the gun, fire real rounds no problem. i replace the paintballs by reballs the first one shoots and all the others seem to roll out. The detends are perfectly fine and new. The settings are stock etc They shoot fin out of a pm5, a shocker, and my 98. Anyone have the sollution to this? a friend on another forum has the same problem. Btw, i know this is the "tippmann" forum, ive been reminded by a few last time i posted my dads pm5... but i unfortunatly dont go on 20 forums... Thanks! Frank ------------- Frank |
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Posted By: lester98c
Date Posted: 06 February 2007 at 10:06pm
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Replace the stock detents with Dm5/6 spring detends, seems to be what people are sugesting over in the Dye forum. How do you like your PMR? I have one on its way to me right now. |
Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 06 February 2007 at 10:19pm
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WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH. WOAH. HOLLLLLD THE PHONE. your mom plays paintball, and owns a pmr? ------------- 
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 06 February 2007 at 10:27pm
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What phone? What are the stock detents like? I wish guns started to become stock with delrin spring detents. |
bravecoward wrote:Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 06 February 2007 at 10:28pm
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It doesn't sound to me like the detents. What kind of loader are you using? I'd guess that the reballs are simply smaller than the barrel back on the gun, and the constant pressure of the loader is simply forcing them out.
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Posted By: hybrid-sniper
Date Posted: 06 February 2007 at 10:47pm
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I would hate to have to rely on my back to keep the ball in place. |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 06 February 2007 at 10:51pm
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Posted By: hybrid-sniper
Date Posted: 06 February 2007 at 11:22pm
Yeah I know. One of the reasons I will never shoot one. |
Posted By: Shadowminion
Date Posted: 07 February 2007 at 2:38pm
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Yer missing out , my stock Prostock shoots almost as well as my Upped 98C , yeah its kind of a pain to keep a good paint to bore match (and Very critical with the cocker ) . I started using Marbs and a barrel kit and now shoot far fewer rounds in a day of rec-ball , because more of them actually go where I intend ! ------------- SL68-II , micro honed and polished .688" bore . Tuff Enuf . Widowmaker , under construction |
Posted By: 3442
Date Posted: 07 February 2007 at 6:59pm
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Pretty cool huh? Shes played once and my dad buys her a better gun than i have lol! Anyways, stock detents are simply rubber knobs that hold hte ball in place. the detents are fine, i checked them carefully. Maybe its the hopper, but iam using a reloader b... Frank ------------- Frank |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 07 February 2007 at 7:41pm
Two problems with the reusable rounds:
Your best bet for your situation is to look for some aftermarket detents that protrude farther into the chamber. Alternatively, you can pick up some small rubber stops/bumpers similar to http://www.rubber-group.com/bump.html - this at a hardware store and carve it down to make your own extended/heavy duty detents. (I had to do this with a PT extreme I owned; the stock detent was worthless.) ------------- 
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Posted By: tecumseh
Date Posted: 07 February 2007 at 7:48pm
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stock halo b's and reloader b's HATE reballs.
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Posted By: 3442
Date Posted: 08 February 2007 at 7:07pm
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well they shot perfectly fine when the reloader was on the shocker. Frank ------------- Frank |
Posted By: Langside
Date Posted: 08 February 2007 at 10:53pm
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Yeah my halo just wont feed them, and when it does I get like 4 balls in and then it jams. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 08 February 2007 at 11:00pm
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My guess is that the density and mass of the re-balls are pushing them past your detents (especially since you are using a force-feed hopper system). The better the technology gets with paintball markers, the finer the tolerances. For example, back in the day, most markers were built like AK47's from an engineering standpoint. In other words, they were built with (relative to today's high-ends) a lot of "slop" between parts. My guess is that the guys who came up with the PMR design decided to make it so the detents only loosely hold a paintball (giving it less chance to break in the chamber) and the re-balls are just too heavy a mass and push right through them, especially under tension from the hopper. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |