Tippmann
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Topic: Tippmann
Posted By: RoboCop
Subject: Tippmann
Date Posted: 25 October 2015 at 11:22pm
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I knew about Tippmann sewing machines, but a thread on reddit made me look into it again and http://www.tippmannindustrial.com/" rel="nofollow - found their website. I couldn't remember if it was still a thing, but I'm sure this is the first time I saw the website. Tippmann was at the career fair at my university. If I wanted to stay in this state, I would have gone and talked to them, but I want to get away. Relevant quotes from reddit: "Did you know that some german gun manufacturers switched to sewing machines following ww1 due to the similarity of machining required on both." "During WWII Singer made 1911 pistols, along with Remington Rand, which was a typewriter manufacturer."
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 26 October 2015 at 6:37am
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Yep, Tippmann started out making half-scale functioning MGs, but with the advent of the Hughes Amendment, they had to change stuff around. Back in the day, when you went to Tippmann.com, you had to select which portal you were looking for, either the industrial sewing site, or the paintball site. I'm pretty sure that the industrial sewing component is still family owned while the paintball end was divested. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: deadeye007
Date Posted: 26 October 2015 at 7:57am
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And if you clicked on the tippmann pneumatics portal it would take you to a picture of the hellhound. I'm pretty sure the second question I asked on the old, old forum was "how much is the hellhound?". I asked it right after I asked Model 98 or Pro Carbine. ------------- Face it guys, common sense is a form of wealth and we're surrounded by poverty.-Strato |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 26 October 2015 at 12:15pm
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I think it's tippmannindustrial.com Since we're talking about hellhounds and such, I always wanted a chameleon Model 98 and a silver 98 Custom. ------------- 
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 26 October 2015 at 1:36pm
| I remember seeing the hellhound on the website. The portal between the two must have been before I started lurking. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 27 October 2015 at 9:32am
We sold the living heck out of the silver 98 customs back at the Dragon's Den when I was in college. We had a few chameleons as well, people were always finger-effing them but nobody wanted to pony up the premium for what was just a gimmick. And speaking of the old days, I remember having to send out 98s to Tippmann themselves for retrofitting for RTs and E-Bolts before the customs came out. I spent so much time cutting trigger guards off of the old model 98s for double triggers that half the time, when I blew my nose, the snot sparkled from all the aluminum and magnesium in the air in the workshop. I still think that was the best job I ever had. Paid okay for a college job ($11.50/hr in 2000) and I honestly enjoyed what I did every single day. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
SSOK wrote:Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 27 October 2015 at 11:18am
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Really? I never saw the silver or realtree 98's. They seemed very unpopular. Was there more than one chameleon offered? I can't remember. -------------
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 27 October 2015 at 1:05pm
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There were two different color shifting paint jobs I believe. I wasn't around for the real-tree 98's just the silvers, and we couldn't keep them in stock in the Mid-Hudson Valley of NY. Mind you, we were also putting on 200+ person "renegade" games every weekend on rented or public land, so there were plenty of people out there buying. I think the max we ever hit was 325 or so for a Sunday "pick up" game. That's when my boss finally said "eff-it!" and instead of counting people off "one-two" style or trying to keep groups together, he split the whole shebang right down the middle and tossed the rolls of duck-tape to people he appointed as "leaders" for each group and left it at that. We had some EPIC games up there. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 27 October 2015 at 1:21pm
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I think when I got into paintball around 2004, 98Cs and A5s were available in realtree, silver, and black. When I'm home later I will dig up the site on Wayback to find out now. -------------
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 27 October 2015 at 1:50pm
| I don't remember the chameleon paint. Trying to find a good video of one is hard to find too. It's good tippmann has branched out to various types of markers. Many new players that come to the sport see Tippmann's low price, but after they search on forums, people tell them to go with a gog enmey. At first I thought it was just an Ion, but it's a mech ion. A non battery spool valve is pretty sweet. It's also a low price with high efficiency that allows HPA and co2. But with so many manufacturers and some of them with a new gun every year, the used market is the way to go now. |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 27 October 2015 at 2:02pm
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I still hate Smart Parts. -------------
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 27 October 2015 at 2:39pm
| I agree. The old Smart Parts was bad. Bad business practices, but some good products. The new gog hasn't made the same mistakes of the old Smart Parts. People love the new shocker. I remember Virtue was hated for similar reasons? I think pbnation even banned the name. Now Virtue is loved. They have possibly the best hopper with almost zero jams. I've seen too many dye rotors jamming. The industry views have changed. |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 27 October 2015 at 3:04pm
As long as you replace the ASA on the Xtcy and Envy markers Gogs run pretty damn good. ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 27 October 2015 at 9:26pm
1999 is calling, they want their old tech back.... ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 02 November 2015 at 10:57am
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I have a silver 98 and a realtree A-5 that I use just about every time I play... I'm old. oh, and the hellhound was at Clowns VS zombies this past weekend. http://instagram.com/p/9OvsrJLCKu/" rel="nofollow - http://instagram.com/p/9OvsrJLCKu/ Funny story I heard about the hellhounds gatlin gun... It wasn't working, everyone at Tippmann and elsewhere had tried to fix it, as they were trying to sell it... They were sure it was an electrical problem. (it runs off a drill)... It was sitting on a guys kitchen table, when his father in law who served in WW2 came in... And took one look at it and said, "that doesn't work, huh?". The guy was like, yeah, no one can figure it out. He laughed and pulled the main gear off and flipped it over, and said, "try it now" and now it works perfectly! He used to work on guns like that in the war! haha! ------------- They tremble at my name... 
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Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 05 November 2015 at 12:12pm
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I remember the site intro, where you had to choose between Tippmann Pneumatics and Tippmann industrial, but I had no idea how long ago that was. I had to 2000 to find that page. http://web.archive.org/web/20000620103024/http://www.tippmann.com/" rel="nofollow - Link |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 05 November 2015 at 12:47pm
| Are the sewing machines only for leather products? |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 05 November 2015 at 9:48pm
They were marketed as that back when I dealt with the company directly. Not sure if they've branched out since then. I'm sure they'd do for any high-density heavy duty sewing application though. Also, clicking the "wayback" link and going forward with the pneumatics end of things was a kick in the nuts. Click on "gun line" and there's only 3 options. Man, that was sooooo long ago! ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 05 November 2015 at 11:06pm
| I got into the sport when the A5 was new. That would explain why I never saw the sewing machine link. |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 05 November 2015 at 11:42pm
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I got into paintball when the A5 was relatively new and the ProCarb was being phased out. I remember thinking the A5 stealth was the bees knees. -------------
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Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 06 November 2015 at 12:25am
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Noobs. I came in during the Model 98, before the custom. ------------- 
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 06 November 2015 at 7:39am
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A buddy of mine had the silver 98, but I never saw the camo or chameleon ones in play. I did have a nice red A-5 that another friend of mine painted for me  ------------- ? |
Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 06 November 2015 at 9:41am
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I was here during old blue, when was that? 1999? 2000? The gun in my opinion, that changed everything was the Black Dragon. The first $200 electronic marker. Before that you could buy a Booyah frame to convert Spyders, but the Black Dragon opened the flood gates of hell. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 06 November 2015 at 1:58pm
Yep, old blue was 1999 or even 1998 IIRC. true thread-style forum a-la Reddit these days. You could read half the response posts without ever having to click on them if they were short enough. It also allowed more topics to stay on the main page. As for all the n00bs on here who started around the A5.... Get off my pro-lite/mini-lite using lawn!  ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 06 November 2015 at 2:00pm
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Also, I totally remember when the Boo-Yah frames came out. They were magical and got the arms race really going. Of course, SP had to sue EVERYONE into oblivion shortly thereafter...... ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: deadeye007
Date Posted: 07 November 2015 at 1:38am
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I was here during the old blue thread days (1999). I miss the jeopardy and video daily doubles. Every time I got close to 1,000 comments the forum would go through an overhaul. ------------- Face it guys, common sense is a form of wealth and we're surrounded by poverty.-Strato |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 07 November 2015 at 2:35am
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I remember looking at 888paintball's old black and white catalogs and thinking the Airstar Nova 700 was the coolest looking thing ever. Now that I know more about them, I think I'll stay away, but there's no denying that they were neat. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 07 November 2015 at 1:44pm
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I remember when we used to throw paintballs by hand before they came out with markers. ------------- Imagine there’s a picture of your favourite thing here. |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 08 November 2015 at 2:34am
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You old coot. Those weren't paintballs, those were rocks that were still bloody from beating the sabertooths to death. -------------
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Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 08 November 2015 at 5:06pm
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I remember when I was an amoeba, I was waiting for my appendages to grow,...never mind. ------------- Imagine there’s a picture of your favourite thing here. |