cold weather paintball

[Coralis]

Well that should help alot with the cold weather performance, though 24 degrees is quite cold for CO2.

[Sumthinwicked]

to be honest take the one at the tank off no need i live in ct yea it gets cold here all winter long usually well not this year LOL but the one at the tank is useless the one expansion chamber should be enough to use co2 the line if you dislike it lose it thats a preferance i dont partake in just uses up more of your gas and btw for 50 and under you can get a steel 47 cubic in 3000 psi tank check ebay gl man

[spectre184]

I have a chrome gas grip thru I'll sell cheap. Send me a PM if your interetsed. Did you get my reply?

[automag from okinawa]

So, what do you guy's think? If I only run the one expansion, does it make a difference if it's closer to the gun or the tank. Closer to the tank was a great set up in the hot and humid.
I am so glad that paint is no longer $110 a case.
Also, any opinions on the armson barrel? I always liked the way it shot, was better than the stock and crown point, which by the way ended up on the Icon Z1 that my son is using and has no cold weather problems.

[okiTony]

Mensore!!!! Just a shout out from the rock.... I'm in Oki and been here for about 15 years. Trust me AO he is not kidding when he said HOT and HUMID... I love it!!! Anyway, Merry Christmas!!

Oh yea, get a HPA tank.... best cure for your mag!!!

[Coralis]

which by the way ended up on the Icon Z1 that my son is using and has no cold weather problems.

Thats because the icon is designed to run off liquid CO2 , it is one of the few designed that way.

[automag from okinawa]

Yea, I knew the deal with Icon. It wasn't used much in the subtropics. You should have seen all the elite's at the paintball store look at me funny when I told them I needed them to make me a syphon tank. I had one guy who claimed twenty years playing time tell me that I wanted an anti-syphon tank and that nothing uses a syphon. I said " just make it."
Anway, its built like a tank and it's a good starter gun for my teenager. 'nuff about that.

[pump]

well from what AGD tech service told me when i called if you run an expansion chamber to a remote line the pressure will just compress the CO2 vapor back into liquid, defeating the purpose of the expansion chamber

also from the Ravi Chopra site he or a friend tried a reg to expansion chamber to the Mag with great results, might be worth a try


or you could gut the mag and use a palmers stabalizer


or you could try and find black magic seals or other CO2 loving seals and swap them out in your mag


i know a place that has some BM seals and i was gonna turn them to fit in my mag to see if it helps any.....something worth experimenting on i think

[classic68]

Cold

I used to play up in Ohio in the cold. I ran it much like you are talking about. I had a remote bottle to an expansion chamber screwed into the bottom air adapter. I used to wear my jacket so that the bottle on my back was tucked up inside. I also ran my line through my jacket sleeve to the gun. This allowed my body heat to help out. I used the expansion chamber as a front grip which allowed my hand to heat it up (gloves on). This helped a bunch but I still had to watch my rate of fire or I would freeze up the valve. I am running this set up right now but I live in South Carolina and it doesn't get to cold here.

Classic68