Lighter Trigger/Pen Spring why?
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Category: Paintball Equipment
Forum Name: Upgrades and Customizing
Forum Description: Trick it out!
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Topic: Lighter Trigger/Pen Spring why?
Posted By: Pauldave
Subject: Lighter Trigger/Pen Spring why?
Date Posted: 08 December 2008 at 6:23am
| Ok so I did several searches on lighter trigger, pen spring, etc. and I have read several posts saying puting no spring in makes the trigger pull lighter, and putting the pen spring in makes the trigger pull light. If this is the case where I can dis-assemble a pen something that tippmann does not make, why dont they just leave the spring out themselves? or pet a pen like spring in instead? Kinda doesnt make sense to me. |
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Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 08 December 2008 at 7:54am
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Because not everyone wants a hairpin trigger. ------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: Robotech
Date Posted: 08 December 2008 at 10:46am
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Also you can't just take out the spring completely. You have to have something there to push the trigger back to the "ready" position. Some remove the spring and replace them with two magnets with similar poles facing one another so they try to repel each other in order to reset the trigger. ------------- New to the sport? http://www.b17queenofthesky.com/paintball/index.html"> 
Proud owner of a WS-66 A-5 ACP |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 08 December 2008 at 4:03pm
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Every 98 I've owned (like 4 of them) has had their trigger spring entirely removed. Never had a problem with it. The hammer catching the sear resets the trigger. Though keep in mind, these are the old sear 98's. I don't know if the sear redesign changes this attribute. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Robotech wrote:Posted By: Robotech
Date Posted: 08 December 2008 at 5:25pm
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They might. I know in both my stacked tube blowbacks and my A-5 that having the spring out would cause problems. Never knew that on the old 98s. I thought, for some reason, that I was still over on A5OG when I posted this...LOL...oh I must have needed more coffee. ------------- New to the sport? http://www.b17queenofthesky.com/paintball/index.html">
Proud owner of a WS-66 A-5 ACP |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 08 December 2008 at 11:03pm
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Who knows? Maybe it's just how I pull the trigger? All I know, is I've never personally had trouble removing the trigger spring. The hammer pressing against the sear seems to reset the trigger from what I've been noticing. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: Rambino
Date Posted: 08 December 2008 at 11:33pm
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I took out my trigger spring, but then I have an RT, so that is kind of cheating... ------------- [IMG]http://i38.tinypic.com/aag8s8.jpg"> |
Posted By: Robotech
Date Posted: 09 December 2008 at 10:49am
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Yea, that doesn't quite count...LOL ------------- New to the sport? http://www.b17queenofthesky.com/paintball/index.html">
Proud owner of a WS-66 A-5 ACP |