Vanced
09-18-2002, 01:35 PM
Just a quick question, I did a search and coulnd't find this bit of info...
I just got done with a large weekend game, and it was a very rough weather day, with near downpour conditions in wooded feilds. The weather sent all the guys with electro's packing but my both my Micro RTs worked flawlessly, and enjoyed the odd conditions for a unique day of paintball.
After getting home, I sat down to do my standard gun cleaning after a long day, expeically considering the conditions with the guns getting rained on for hours and being sloshed around the mud of wood feilds.
One of my Mags I just recently got retured from AGD that week for its level 10 mod, and when I went to clean it I relized the back half was sealed, and I coudln't get in to clean the valve seat, and pin valve assembly like I typically do. I then did vaugely rememberd reading something about the fact that this was being done, but didn't think about it at the time. I was curious to the logic as to why? I know there is very little reason to get in back half of the valve, and very little that can go wrong back there once it is working. But I was a bit worried that if by some odd chance that in the extream conditions that I played in this weekend, that there is a slim chance that something could get in there and contaminate the rear of the valve and I couldn't get in to anythign about it? Isn't there a chance that you can also contaimate the O-rings back there, expescially if your valve for some reason goes thru some tempature changes like being left in a hot car or the gun getting over pressured and venting out the back?
I don't like to question AGD's infinate wisdom they have been a rock for me in paintball for over a decade, but I am just curious about the logic behind the sealing of valve. Any reasons would be helpfull.
Thanks
Vanced
I just got done with a large weekend game, and it was a very rough weather day, with near downpour conditions in wooded feilds. The weather sent all the guys with electro's packing but my both my Micro RTs worked flawlessly, and enjoyed the odd conditions for a unique day of paintball.
After getting home, I sat down to do my standard gun cleaning after a long day, expeically considering the conditions with the guns getting rained on for hours and being sloshed around the mud of wood feilds.
One of my Mags I just recently got retured from AGD that week for its level 10 mod, and when I went to clean it I relized the back half was sealed, and I coudln't get in to clean the valve seat, and pin valve assembly like I typically do. I then did vaugely rememberd reading something about the fact that this was being done, but didn't think about it at the time. I was curious to the logic as to why? I know there is very little reason to get in back half of the valve, and very little that can go wrong back there once it is working. But I was a bit worried that if by some odd chance that in the extream conditions that I played in this weekend, that there is a slim chance that something could get in there and contaminate the rear of the valve and I couldn't get in to anythign about it? Isn't there a chance that you can also contaimate the O-rings back there, expescially if your valve for some reason goes thru some tempature changes like being left in a hot car or the gun getting over pressured and venting out the back?
I don't like to question AGD's infinate wisdom they have been a rock for me in paintball for over a decade, but I am just curious about the logic behind the sealing of valve. Any reasons would be helpfull.
Thanks
Vanced