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  • canada kicks @ss
    Registered User
    • Sep 2001
    • 48

    #1

    Old Mag Design Question

    I believe my mag is old. I mean really old. Like pre-stars-on-the-valve old. Anyways, the first game I played with my Superbolt, it was for some reason chopping my paint to **** and back. After playing, I took it apart and noticed my wire nubbin had been smashed flat against the body of my barrel, and when I replaced it with a plastic one, there was a big, nasty scar on the barrel where the wire had dug in. Also, the first 2-3 millimeters of the sleeve of my superbolt had been chewed up, with scratches and the like on it. So, I decided to get out my old bolt, and noticed that it was at least 2-3 mm shorter. So my questions are, where, besides the bolt, is there a difference between my mag and some newer ones? The body? The power tube? And also, I have a Z-Body on the way, will using it do anything to my mag if I stick with the old bolt, or would it not push forward far enough, thus not sealing off the breech and sending air up my powerfeed?
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  • mykroft
    Registered User
    • Jan 2001
    • 2010

    #2
    The power-tube tip is most likely different, and your valve might have a power-tuvbe spring instead of a spacer, and a non-reversable on/off top. There are no updates to the basic valve, merely minor tweaks to the ancillary parts, which will fit your valve as well.

    Note that the Superbolts are long-nose bolts, so they will be longer than older foamy & non-foamy bolts, the length change helped to reduce blow-back, making the vert feed mag a practical exercise for the first time.
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    • canada kicks @ss
      Registered User
      • Sep 2001
      • 48

      #3
      OK, so all this means that my Z-Body will work ok? Awesome, but I guess I'll hafta wait until I get a retro valve to use lvl 10.
      "Now that's a mug you don't want to chug!"
      ~Duffman, the Simpsons

      Good Traders: Well, I'm sure every one on these forums are really good guys.
      Oh... you mean people I've traded with...in that case, RogueFactor and Miscue
      Bad Traders: No one that hasn't been beaten with a Salmon until they collapse into a pile of their own puke and then mauled to death by badgers.....oh wait, that hasn't happened yet, so, I guess...nobody.

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      • virus
        AO's dirty little secret
        • Oct 2000
        • 1524

        #4
        nope level 10 will work with your current valve.....

        though you may need to get a new springpack for the back part of the valve... other then that you just need the level 10 update kit....
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        • Spudchucker
          Registered User
          • Aug 2002
          • 27

          #5
          awesome job pimpin up the gun! youll love the retro and the z body! i cant speak for the lvl 10 though cause i havent used one
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          • athomas
            Of course it works-its AGD
            • Jan 2002
            • 8039

            #6
            I have an old pre star valve from 1993. The level 10 works fine and is a recommended upgrade.

            Other upgrades include getting a new style on/off top, and making sure the hole in the valve back lines up with the hole in the valve front. If it doesn't, drill a new hole in the back so that it lines up.
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