Anybody had mod their Alpha Black yet?
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Topic: Anybody had mod their Alpha Black yet?
Posted By: JagdAlex
Subject: Anybody had mod their Alpha Black yet?
Date Posted: 09 March 2008 at 3:11pm
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I am curious to see if anybody who purchased an Alpha Black had tried to customize it a bit with some 98C mod parts. Like fitting a RIS handguard or some picatinny railing underneath and on top the actual handguard shroud of the Tacitcal package, or picatinny rail mount on top of the carrying handle. The only mod I have seen so far is people who had installed a cyclone feed on it that's it. So if any of you guys did anything on their Alpha that would be great to know if it was relatively easy to do, because I want a purchase one but I am not sure if it's too much of a pain to actually mod it. Thanks
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Posted By: slugger66ny
Date Posted: 13 March 2008 at 1:19am
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I just want to know about the gun itself to be honest with you, rlly want to buy one, but want to make sure its ok... ------------- AL.. AKA-(DBOY) |
Posted By: Kingtiger
Date Posted: 13 March 2008 at 2:06am
| People have been able to add a 98 cyclone feed, but that's it. |
Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 13 March 2008 at 7:03am
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Pretty much anything should fit on the Alpha besides the standard 98 e-grip or RT kit (The Alpha has no RT capability in the gripframe) The internals and most of the mounting besides the triggger arrangement should be compatible on the Alpha. ------------- 
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Posted By: JagdAlex
Date Posted: 13 March 2008 at 4:35pm
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Someone posted one Alpha with a cyclone and a red dot installed on a picatinny rail, fixed on the carrying handle. The guy had to drill a whole in the carrying handle. Something easy to do. I am ordering mine today and should get it in about 5 days. I am planning on buying 2 picatinny mounting rails that will fit above and underneath the handguard to fit a vertical grip/bipod and prolly a laser and or a TAC light. I am sure that it will be relatively easy to convert it into an M16 SOPMOD for half the price that it would cost you with an actual 98c. Just need to wait in June for the Alpha E-grip and the Alpha Cyclone if you are not the crafty kind of guy who wants to dremel off a piece of their Alpha to make the 98c cyclone fit. |
Posted By: maniackiller
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 10:20pm
| Taking apart the ABT is easy, there is like 10 screws and the case splits. As far as mods, it has the 98 threads internals. The trigger grip doesn't have much room is pretty close to the 98 grip, people have told me that the wires and rod would have to be extended for the 98 e-grip internals to fit. Other then that buy it! |
Posted By: MeanMan
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 11:28am
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My dad already pre-ordered an electronic one. They are nice feeling guns. Ive held and played around with the normal tactical one at a shop. I thought it was going to be smaller, odd looking from the pictures online, but it was bigger than I thought it was going to be. ------------- 
hybrid-sniper~"To be honest, if I see a player still using an Impulse I'm going to question their motives." |
Posted By: ciera1932
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 4:36pm
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I have modified mines... Added rails to handle for grenade launcher, and modified it a cyclone feed.. Also drilled hole to center of top handle so i can use stard AR15 scope mounts, and using a red dot dight. Also modified a 98C e-trigger system for it, shoots great. People at field keep asking me where to get the e-trigger upgrade, told it won't come out til atleast June from Tippmann, have to make your own. I have put in the 98 e-board into an Alpha Black... The Alpha's won't have an e-board available til atleast June... If you going to to do, need to to do a few things to it first... 1-need to make a longer trip pin, the original is too short, but that is easy, if you can find a piece of wire thick enough. Cut it so it ends just under the sear. Should be just a little play between the sear and trip pin, not very much,just enough so it isn't tight against it.(sorry I don't know the exact measurement for you, but should be fairly easy to do) 2-Using dremel tool or file, round out the top edge of sear, so it isn't a sharp edge. 3-On the back catch lip, where sear hits bolt, file it down with either a dremel or file, but not to much, just want a bit of doward slope (or really upward, down if bolt is held in your hand bottum up). 4-The sear is held in place by one pin and have 2 pins to limit it's movement. remove the bottom pin, so the sear will go higher in position, easier than shaping the sear to sit higher. Might take a bit of fine tuning, but I did it and never had a problem once completed. Took me about 2 hours to work it out, with these instructions, should be alot easier for you to do. Won't have to modify the e-board or original trip pin, and it uses the bolt from a Tippmann 98 incase anything gets screwed up. One minor problem, make sure you use a good brand of 9 volt, the cheap ones don't have enough power, but that has always been the problem with all the tippmann e-boards. |
Posted By: sharpshootn
Date Posted: 13 May 2008 at 11:04pm
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i put a 98 custom cyclone on mine in which i had to slightly modify for it to fit properly, also i put a five inch picatinny rail on the bottom of my shroud with a foldable foregrip i like it alot.
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Posted By: projectmayhem
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 11:58pm
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I really want to know if the tippmann flatline barrel fits the Alpha black. Anyone know or tried? ------------- You are not your khakis... 501st: Vader's Fist |
Posted By: RPFD41
Date Posted: 19 May 2008 at 3:04am
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Hey sharpshootn, You have done what i have been trying to do for three days now its awsome looking. You have got to tell me how you were able to get the rail secured under the shroud. I am having no luck. Please let me know how you did it.... |
Posted By: thorax181
Date Posted: 19 May 2008 at 11:12pm
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I think the stock barrel needs replaced.....i bought a new barrel and ris handgaurd the rigged a q-loader on it...looks sweet and is dead on accurate!!!
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Posted By: Grumbacher
Date Posted: 20 May 2008 at 4:40pm
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I'll try to get a decent picture of mine up, so far I've added a 14" barrel, a R.I.S. handguard and vertical grip, and a 4x22 scope onto the rail. The R.I.S. was the trickiest part simply because I took it from my WG65 which has a much thinner barrel so to make it fit I spent a few hours with a dremel sanding down the parts to fit around my new barrel. Oh yeah and I took that ridiculous Army Strong sticker off of the side. |
Posted By: Mikachu9
Date Posted: 25 May 2008 at 5:07pm
| When im done modifying mine, ill put mine up too |
Posted By: R34P3R
Date Posted: 15 July 2008 at 11:36pm
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Still got some work to do on it. I have to add a cyclone. and idk maybe a flashlight or a foregrip i'm not sure yet.
------------- Kill em all and let god sort em out |
Posted By: MonsterLopes
Date Posted: 17 July 2008 at 12:00pm
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Posted By: Eternal_SiR
Date Posted: 17 July 2008 at 10:48pm
| i have the alpha black.. and the mods i've done to the gun is the weaver rail on the carry handle with the red dot.. cyclone feed with all the TechT mods, weaver on front hand guard with vertical fore grip, JCS Blew power tube with hexagon front bolt. APE V.2.0 e-trigger. For those of you who are waiting for the e-grip.. even when you get the egrip electronics with the kit.. u'll still have to cut out the battery door on your receiver.. and make 2 small cuts on the grip handle and thats it.. takes about 20mins to install a e-grip board from a 98 |
Posted By: ThaBobsta
Date Posted: 18 July 2008 at 5:23pm
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Ok guys... gotta question.... What would be better for my bravo one... keep i mind I am joining a recball team soon hopefully -> dont flame I got invited>> and I would like to know whats better.... cyclone feed mod or getting a torque loader... I am sick of the god danges shake and shoot I have... |
Posted By: kurieitaa
Date Posted: 18 July 2008 at 8:29pm
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Cyclone. ------------- 
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ThaBobsta wrote:Posted By: R34P3R
Date Posted: 18 July 2008 at 8:30pm
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is it modded at all? because if you are adding a red dot or something like that i believe that the torque loader would get in the way, i may be wrong tho. i would recomend the cyclone, thats what im getting. ------------- Kill em all and let god sort em out |
Posted By: MonsterLopes
Date Posted: 19 July 2008 at 5:59pm
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Consider mounting your scope offset or sideways;
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Posted By: BravoMan
Date Posted: 31 January 2009 at 7:53pm
| hey if you were to take the scope off adn have the apex barrel would the sights come a line? |
Posted By: BravoMan
Date Posted: 31 January 2009 at 7:56pm
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Posted By: lordtoast
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 2:32pm
| I got the alpha before the egrip was out,but have bought the egrip, just havent put it on yet. So far, i have a cyclone feed with the x7 low pro hopper, apex barrel for 98C, weaver rails on the handguard, (bought from cheaperthandirt.com for my colt m4) front grip, red dot flashlight with pressure pad, and 3 point tac sling. Gonna get the remote line next weekend when my vest comes in, and use a dremmel to file down the carrying handle and make a true flattop. Pics will post when project is done. Almost any aftermarket m16 m4 parts you can get will work on the alpha. I ordered the 6 inch quad rail handguard for the m4, and when it comes in, will see if it fits. Most of the stuff you can buy for the m4 is cheaper than buying paintball specific parts. better quality too. All my stuff was on my m4 in iraq. |
Posted By: lordtoast
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 2:34pm
| how do you like the q loader? i heard it wasnt worth the effort to load the pods so i went with the cyclone. |
Posted By: xxtattooxx
Date Posted: 11 May 2009 at 2:33pm
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warsensor A5 R.I.S hand gard, for the carrying handle the AGC AR-15 Military tactical mount, for the current shroud if you want to add rails you can use tippmann spec ops A5 flat top weaver rail and of course the cyclone feed and the inside bolt can be upgraded
hope that helps
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Posted By: Shenkyei Rambo
Date Posted: 15 May 2009 at 8:30pm
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i would only buy an alpha black to void warranty and turn it into something else, like a sniper rifle of some sort. (DONT start on the whole sniper arguement here. i express my thoughts about the marker, and you ahve no reason to attack what i say) ------------- Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings. (\__/) (='.'=) (")_(").. COPY BUNNY INTO SIG AND HELP HIM ACHIEVE WORLD DOMINATION!!! |
Posted By: oldtimer
Date Posted: 20 May 2009 at 11:15pm
Just got my Alpha Black the other day and ran around 1200 rounds and was not what i expected.So i went out and put the cyclone feed system on and the flatline barrel and expansion chamber in and the sight rail and nc star red dot scope and holy crap big difference with the expansion chamber and flatline.The flat line and chamber is the trick for that marker next e trigger 
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Posted By: muddy78cj5
Date Posted: 27 May 2009 at 1:00pm
| I have put a cyclone feed for a 98 custom and a vitrue board for a 98 custom on my alpha black. It took a little effort to get the virtue board to fit. I had to grind off a small corner for the board to fit. I did not have a sear spring for a e trigger so I used a spring out of a pen. It is light and works great. The gun is very fast and accurate. |
Posted By: Robxxxx
Date Posted: 04 June 2009 at 11:15pm
| just got done sanding and and polishing my chamber, waiting for my wicked bolt and kicker rear bolt to get here bsa red dot 16 ceramic barrel trinity shroud 4,5 supressor and i dont like the cyclone feeder i like my vforce also custom built my own trigger its got the e trigger but also has a mechanical trigger so i can fire even if i have the e trigger turned off. |
Posted By: dead_eye_dad
Date Posted: 19 August 2009 at 9:09am
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will post my alpha once im done with modifying the gun ------------- stupid people dont know anything |