Ball Break Problems...

[Wes_M]

I have had major problems with PMI's RPS Premium paintballs. Every time I have played with those using my Automag, I get tons of breaks. A perfectly good day of paintball was runined today because of the amount of breaks I had, 3 in 100 rounds. Thats horrible.
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I'm shooting an Automag power feed, 12 volt Revolution with a Dye Boomstick and a Lapco Autospirit along with the extended nose bolt. Every other kind of paint that i've ever shot works great except the RPS Premium. Not even Wal-Mart paint breaks that much. Does anybody elese have this problem? The breaks usually occur in the feed tube but also in the barrel, not as much though. I have tried switching between my two barrels but the same problems occur. I can't think of any reason why this happens. My nubbin is at it's proper length in the barrel and my velocity is at a constant 280. What can possibly be causing this? It has to be my gun because i've shot 4 bags of that paint and everytime I get mega breaks.
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If anybody can help me out then please do. Also let me know if any of you guys get the same problem. Bye.

[Mr. Hick]

I don't know about anyone else but this is my field paint and i have had bad batches of paint the last 2 times i played there. i think it was just another bad batch.

lets hope so anyway.

[tooslow]

Yeah, I've had a lot of customers complaining about RPS Premium the last couple of weeks. Lots of breaks... This is unusual for RPS, it's usually pretty good paint. I'm not sure what to tell you.

[Temo Vryce]

I run a small bore barrel, it loves diablo paint but eats the RP for lunch. Sometimes I wonder who is wearing more of my paint me, from chopping or my oppenents. My suggestion would be to test your barrle paint match. Try blowing a ball through your barrel. Make sure its as round as possible. This should tell you if it's the right size of barrel or not. Talk to the other players at your field to find out what szie of barrel they are using.

[Russ]

The autospirit is small bore barrel. Stay away from that one with the PMI Premiums. Use the Boomstick. I, too, have noticed more than enough barrel breaks with the last PMI Premium that I've bought. It was Hot Pink, if that matters. I'm really liking that new JT paint. It's also made by RPS.

[Wes_M]

Yeah, everytime I used the PMI Premium it was hot pink as well. Also using my Boomstick has no affect with breakage, same problems occur just like with the Autospirit. I'm really starting to think that the paint just sucks wang. I sold my PMI Premium to 2 friends, one with a Spyder TL and the other with a Spyder Special Editition and it worked great in their guns. 500 rounds each and not one break. So maybe its just my Automag.

[ralicea]

You have to match your paint to the barrel. I use the Freak and have had no paint breakage.

[Lone Gunman]

If RPS is making JT paint, maybe Brass Eagle bought them out too. LOL

[Tubby_Ninja]

Dang, I'm glad to hear this. I got my Emag about 8 weeks ago. The first time I played, no breaks. Then I went back about 4 weeks later, used the field PMI Premium, and fought all day with breaks in the feed tube and barrel! I could never get the thing clean! It happened to me last week too. I saw AGD mentioned that they were getting a ton of bad paint comments lately. If you can, I'd try another paint, or just wait out these bad batches.

Here a theory. Could it be that we are seeing paint that either got stuck in transit, or sat on paletes too long last month after the WTC attacks shut down shipping and transportation? Just a wild a** guess...

[Tubby_Ninja]

Just an update. I shot a case of fresh Marbs thru my emag today. 2 barrel breaks, and no feed breaks. It was excellent! Get fresh paint.

[joeyjoe367]

Hey...

I was shooting PMI Premium On Saturday (nov 3rd) and I also Had a big problem with breaking paint.

My friend, who was also shooting an automag, was having breaks too.

I thought that it might have been the paint, however, another friend shooting an Impulse (all of us on the same batch of paint) Only had 1 break all day, and it was due to shooting too fast..

I 'Still have about 500 rnds of the extra paint. I guess I'll get rid of this stuff and try something else.

Tubby_Ninja: Glad to hear it. I'm going to go grab some Diablo Paint or something the next Time i'm out.

[joeyjoe367]

BTW, I was shooing Hot Pink also, along with some blue/orange -> Orange

[ralicea]

joeyjoe367,

What state are you in?

[joeyjoe367]

Washington, Seattle area to be a bit more specific. I ordered the paint from www.paintballgear.com tho.

[dEAgle b0b]

Diablo

Go with Diablo, 1 ball break in 1k rounds.