Lvl 10 foamie

[varq]

Is this necessary? I have used superglue a few times, but never seems to permanently hold. I have chopped paint a few times when rapid firing, wondering if the foamie is the issue.

[Nobody]

Many will tell you yes. With the most fragile paint it will make a difference.

Now with my own classic, i shot the original foamy out years ago and it never really mattered, to me.

Of course, my classic is mine and mine alone. Each mag valve is the same but different. So you may need it. Otherwise, try gorilla glue. Super glues tend to make the foamy harder(especially liquids that will soak in), or you are not having a good clean bound from foamy to bolt tip. Use acetone(take your gf or wife's nail polish remover- same thing) to clean the old glue away and scrape off as much as possible. You want bare metal when putting on the new foamy.

[Loguzzzzzz]

Many will tell you yes. With the most fragile paint it will make a difference.

Now with my own classic, i shot the original foamy out years ago and it never really mattered, to me.

Of course, my classic is mine and mine alone. Each mag valve is the same but different. So you may need it. Otherwise, try gorilla glue. Super glues tend to make the foamy harder(especially liquids that will soak in), or you are not having a good clean bound from foamy to bolt tip. Use acetone(take your gf or wife's nail polish remover- same thing) to clean the old glue away and scrape off as much as possible. You want bare metal when putting on the new foamy.

^^^QFT

Especially the bare metal part some will actually grind a clean spot before applying the Gorilla Glue...

[varq]

Thank you guys!

[Tunaman]

clean and scratch the hell out of the bolt...I use a diamond scribe. Loctite 380.

[Zone Drifter]

IMO, keep the foamie. I've played games where it's field paint only with brittle paint, and my foamiless bolt actually was breaking paint just on impact. That slight cushion does help.

[athomas]

I'm guessing you weren't chopping paint. The foamy won't help with chopping but it might help with fracturing, which is almost chopping I guess.

It isn't necessarily the impact of the foamyless bolt that is causing the paint breakage. Its the fact that the bolt without the foamy can allow the paint to roll back into the face of the bolt. This allows the next ball in the stack to sit lower in the breach. When the bolt comes forward, the side impact of the bolt sliding past the ball and hitting it on the lower edge can fracture the shell of the ball above the bolt. The fractured ball then drops into the breach when the bolt resets after the cycle and gets more damaged due to the pressure from the ball stack. When fired, any force of the bolt pushing the fractured ball into the barrel causes a complete failure of the ball and it gets blown out of the barrel as a cloud of paint.