Expansion Chamber

[Warmonger]

Uhhh... ok i feel kinda stupid asking this but what would I need to buy to be able to use an expansion chamber on my automag? I basically have a stock automag with a remote/coil and I want to know what I have to buy and what i gotta do to install the thing... thanks alot for enduring my stupipdity

[Temo Vryce]

If you plan on running CO2 then yes use the Expansion Chamber. If you plan on running Nitro then don't waste your money. If you can afford it and you could try something a friend of mine did but if you can afford this you can afford nitro.

2 CO2 bottles to Expansion chamber to remote line to expansion chamber to regulator to automag internals.

Or

buy 1 nitro bottle and a drop forward.

Hope this helps

[Load SM5]

To put an expansion chamber on your mag you'll need an automag vertical adapter. On the inside of the body rail you'll see a partially drilled out hole just in front of the trigger frame. Finish drilling it out and that's where you screw in the adapter. Then you'll just need enough gas line to go from your valve to the adapter and more line to go from your X-chamber to your bottomline. Very easy.

[e21bgl]

up....... and if you really need Expansionchamber , try looking for a big - size exp only. like Smart Expansion or at least ANS phase II exp or ACI Sub 6. By the way , with a price nearly the same , you'd better choose some regulator which can be use both CO2 & HP like Palmer's STB.

[freakyt]

No such thing as a stupid question. :) Everybody in the form was at the green newbie level at one time or another.

Those guys are right, np on the Expansion chamber. It won't void your garantee or anything :).

Since your just starting, I would urge you to skip C02 all together, and go air, if your setup for it where your at. Make sure you have a scuba shop that can fill your tanks.

If you go air right away, it it save you ALOT of headaches. Basically, C02 is obsolete. Everybody will run air before long.

If you have to go C02, get a Palmer stalizer instead of an X-chamber. They make one for your remote, an in-line they call it. I think it's about $65 or $70 brand new, from http://www.palmer-pursuit.com/

X-chambers don't work nearly as well as a reg. And the stablizer is the best reg around, period.

Is this a brand new gun your getting, or are you getting it used? If you are getting it used, it may already have a chamber on it. You should check that out.

Most likely, if it's on there, it will be the front grip. Sometimes that grip is a just a gas thru tube, other times it's an Expansion chamber. Since you plan on remote'in it, you can run a reg or a chamber anywhere you want. Palmer Male (with the Vert ASA that SM5 was talking about), female (replaces your bottom line ASA adapter), or in-line.

Hope that helps. Remember, the only stupid question is the one that is not asked.

[HeerophantG]

PalmerPursuit's Stabilizer can do with both HPA and CO2
but just don't put the Nitrous on it HaHaHa

actually if you put stabilizer male and female on it (so it would be 2 regs on your gun) that's the best yet!!!!!!

[freakyt]

It would take half a tank of C02 to gas it up with 2 regs :) PSSSSssssssttt. 10 seconds.

I wonder if anybody has ever done that. What is the record for number of regs or expansion chambers on one ASA? I'd like to know. Pics would be good too :)

[Warmonger]

thanks guys

I appreciate all the help and advice from everyone here... I would have already gone air if I had a place to fill up my tank

oh well... maybe when I go to college I'll find a place to fill up my tank so I can make the transition

[Bartleby]

funny actually is i saw a guy with a completely modified cocker it must have had maybe 4 or 5 x-chambers/regulators. i forgot where i saw it but if i come across it again i'll let ya know

[alf]

check your scuba shop

guys,

someone here had this suggestion:

check your scuba shop to see if they RENT filled tanks before you go out to buy one....

mine rents filled tanks for a weekend for $7.50, when a fill costs $5.00...you just have to sign a little waiver saying "this tank will be used for paintball only" and you dont have to have your scuba certification.

-alf

[freakyt]

Well, no HPA, that's a bummer. But still, a good stabalizer for your front vert adapter and you'll be smoking with the big boys.

You DON'T need an expansion chamber. They sort of work, but a reg makes an X-chamber obsolete. I'd run a palmer stablizer somewhere on your gun.

Where you mount it is up to you. What kind of game you play and how much you wanna spend. The most common way is to mount the male stablizer in with the vert tank adapter. Palmer also makes a 'sideline' for mags. It goes right into the side of the AIR. A pretty cool idea. But it would block your site I bet. I've never see one...

Hope that helps

[pumpamatic]

I remember not too long ago seeing a cocker with like 5 regs, it wasn't functional and I don't know what site either.

[alf]

skanline

i got a steel braided remote and an aci 6 stage expansion chamber from skanline...it came set up to attach to the tank, so i didnt need a foregrip...

just another option

-alf