VCK
01-07-2003, 04:49 PM
Ok I haven't owned a mag in over 5 years, and the last one I owned I only had for a very short time and it gave me absolutely no problems. So I recently purchased a mag off of ebay and sure enough I kinda got screwed.
This thing came with about 3 coats of paint on the body and rail. The velocity adjuster appears to have the allen slot stripped out and it appears the previous owner had resorted to using channel locks to adjust the velocity. The gun was full of old paint, all 3 barrels that it came with were full of old paint. Heck the hopper even had broken paint in it. I check the 20 oz he sent with it to find it over half full.
Undaunted by all of this I gave the gun a quick wipedown and gassed it up to see if it would shoot. Much to my surprise it did shoot. However the valve takes 1-2 seconds to recharge between shots. I adjusted the velocity and even changed out some micro line on the gun to steel braid to make sure it was getting good air flow but it still takes a couple seconds to recharge between shots. I also checked the on/off assembly to make sure it was correctly assembled. And I have also stripped all the paint off the body and rail.
Heres the details on the gun and how it is setup. It is a old standard feed HR with a old no star valve ( serial #'s match on the halves) It has a boo-yaah drop forward and a gas through grip. All lines are now steel braid.
Ok as of right now my first thought is to simply buy a repair kit and replace all the seals in the gun. Is this the right idea? Is there anything in particular I need to do? I also wondered if replacing the rear half of the valve with a aftermarket one would possibly fix the problem ( considered this also due to the velocity adjuster being in rough shape ). So any help you guys can give me would be appreciated. Thanks.
This thing came with about 3 coats of paint on the body and rail. The velocity adjuster appears to have the allen slot stripped out and it appears the previous owner had resorted to using channel locks to adjust the velocity. The gun was full of old paint, all 3 barrels that it came with were full of old paint. Heck the hopper even had broken paint in it. I check the 20 oz he sent with it to find it over half full.
Undaunted by all of this I gave the gun a quick wipedown and gassed it up to see if it would shoot. Much to my surprise it did shoot. However the valve takes 1-2 seconds to recharge between shots. I adjusted the velocity and even changed out some micro line on the gun to steel braid to make sure it was getting good air flow but it still takes a couple seconds to recharge between shots. I also checked the on/off assembly to make sure it was correctly assembled. And I have also stripped all the paint off the body and rail.
Heres the details on the gun and how it is setup. It is a old standard feed HR with a old no star valve ( serial #'s match on the halves) It has a boo-yaah drop forward and a gas through grip. All lines are now steel braid.
Ok as of right now my first thought is to simply buy a repair kit and replace all the seals in the gun. Is this the right idea? Is there anything in particular I need to do? I also wondered if replacing the rear half of the valve with a aftermarket one would possibly fix the problem ( considered this also due to the velocity adjuster being in rough shape ). So any help you guys can give me would be appreciated. Thanks.