Snooky
03-26-2002, 03:29 AM
Well the day started out by me arriving at the factory and meeting the office gals. They then called Tom down to get me. Then tom took me on a quick tour of the factory before we went to lunch.
We went to lunch in Tom's suburban(some chevy suv pretty sure it was a suburban) and picked up his girlfriend. Inside the suv was a monitor that tom said was a gps system. Unfortunetly he couldnt get it to fire up so ill never know. We then proceeded to drive to a seafood resturaunt. When we arrived at the seafood restaruant we meet 3 other people from AGD. We then ordered aour meals and tom and the guys talked about banners for the booth at an upcoming event. They also discussed the military paintballs and some issues with them. They also talked about paintballs not tasting good and someone posting on the forum about it.
We then got back to the factory and went to Tom's office. He then answered some email and looked onb the forum. He showed me a comic that was made with flash that was interesting but no one really liked except me i think.
Then we went to the other building that has the perfect circle paintballs and various other things. We heaed for a room where to guys sat looking to fix a problem with the military paintballs. Then tom and the other guy drew different ideas onto a piece of paper trying to reach a solution. We then went and looked at the machines that made the shells for the paintballs and then went on to see where they inject the subsatnce in there.
After seeing the perfect circle we proceeded to the old police training facility where they had a prototype for the display. We then went and looked at the "junk room" where tom had a big telescope project in the works and also an aluminum hydro plane body hanging on the wall. After that we went into toms fossil room and he pointed out what the fossils were. my favorite was of a giant pigs jaw bone. It had huge teeth and it just looked cool.
We then headed back to the other building to Tom's office. He then took some phone calls and once again checked his email. Sometime around this point he showed me thier computer room but it may have been earlier. He talked to a guy about a problem with his angel during a tournment. They then talked about that for a while and what places teams had come in. He then had another man come in to talk about banners and also truses. They then went on the web and searched for ideas on the display. The other thing he showed me was the new idea for the aluminum body on the emag and the new front grip idea. The coolest thig was a lightning shaped e on the emags valve that really looked sweet.
Then Tom called up Ben Tippman and talked to him for quite some time. They discussed market trends and also tippmans mp5 look a like.
We then went back to the police training room to once again look at what could be done with the display. they tried different ideas sing duct tape, wood, and pipe to make truses.
We then went back to Tom's office again to look at prices and sizes for truses. He then asked if i would like to shoot an emag. I said sure as would anyone. So we got a black centerfeed sfl and a 47/5000 pmi tank and headed to shoot it. when we gased it up it was having problems with leaking. So tom then proceded to fix it using parts at a repair station. Eventually tom got it to work and i went to go get paintballs from the fridge. Then Tom asked me to do a bounce test on them and they all broke on the first time. Tom then told me to fire the gun and to stop when a ball broke. With this fragile of paint im surprised everyone of them didnt break. I then shot rapidly and suprising with minimum breaks. Tom said he expected them to break so then we moved onto some yellow balls that had the markings cp if i recall. These flew flawlessly threw the gun. But then Tom broke out his blue extreme with a blue warp feed attachted to it. He then said to try it out. Anyway this gun shot sweet. I probally shot 1000-1500 balls through it in about 10 mins or so. The warp was beyond what i thought. Either way out left or right it was amazingly tight and the warp didnt get in the way at all. Out of all the balls maybe a couple broke when i got down to very little air. I would highly suggest the warp and the extreme emag.
I will post pics either tommorow or weds because its a regular disposable camera. So look forward to that.
Thanks again tom for letting me come to the factory for the day and to let me try out the extreme emag.
We went to lunch in Tom's suburban(some chevy suv pretty sure it was a suburban) and picked up his girlfriend. Inside the suv was a monitor that tom said was a gps system. Unfortunetly he couldnt get it to fire up so ill never know. We then proceeded to drive to a seafood resturaunt. When we arrived at the seafood restaruant we meet 3 other people from AGD. We then ordered aour meals and tom and the guys talked about banners for the booth at an upcoming event. They also discussed the military paintballs and some issues with them. They also talked about paintballs not tasting good and someone posting on the forum about it.
We then got back to the factory and went to Tom's office. He then answered some email and looked onb the forum. He showed me a comic that was made with flash that was interesting but no one really liked except me i think.
Then we went to the other building that has the perfect circle paintballs and various other things. We heaed for a room where to guys sat looking to fix a problem with the military paintballs. Then tom and the other guy drew different ideas onto a piece of paper trying to reach a solution. We then went and looked at the machines that made the shells for the paintballs and then went on to see where they inject the subsatnce in there.
After seeing the perfect circle we proceeded to the old police training facility where they had a prototype for the display. We then went and looked at the "junk room" where tom had a big telescope project in the works and also an aluminum hydro plane body hanging on the wall. After that we went into toms fossil room and he pointed out what the fossils were. my favorite was of a giant pigs jaw bone. It had huge teeth and it just looked cool.
We then headed back to the other building to Tom's office. He then took some phone calls and once again checked his email. Sometime around this point he showed me thier computer room but it may have been earlier. He talked to a guy about a problem with his angel during a tournment. They then talked about that for a while and what places teams had come in. He then had another man come in to talk about banners and also truses. They then went on the web and searched for ideas on the display. The other thing he showed me was the new idea for the aluminum body on the emag and the new front grip idea. The coolest thig was a lightning shaped e on the emags valve that really looked sweet.
Then Tom called up Ben Tippman and talked to him for quite some time. They discussed market trends and also tippmans mp5 look a like.
We then went back to the police training room to once again look at what could be done with the display. they tried different ideas sing duct tape, wood, and pipe to make truses.
We then went back to Tom's office again to look at prices and sizes for truses. He then asked if i would like to shoot an emag. I said sure as would anyone. So we got a black centerfeed sfl and a 47/5000 pmi tank and headed to shoot it. when we gased it up it was having problems with leaking. So tom then proceded to fix it using parts at a repair station. Eventually tom got it to work and i went to go get paintballs from the fridge. Then Tom asked me to do a bounce test on them and they all broke on the first time. Tom then told me to fire the gun and to stop when a ball broke. With this fragile of paint im surprised everyone of them didnt break. I then shot rapidly and suprising with minimum breaks. Tom said he expected them to break so then we moved onto some yellow balls that had the markings cp if i recall. These flew flawlessly threw the gun. But then Tom broke out his blue extreme with a blue warp feed attachted to it. He then said to try it out. Anyway this gun shot sweet. I probally shot 1000-1500 balls through it in about 10 mins or so. The warp was beyond what i thought. Either way out left or right it was amazingly tight and the warp didnt get in the way at all. Out of all the balls maybe a couple broke when i got down to very little air. I would highly suggest the warp and the extreme emag.
I will post pics either tommorow or weds because its a regular disposable camera. So look forward to that.
Thanks again tom for letting me come to the factory for the day and to let me try out the extreme emag.