LV10 and Cold weather

[gadget68]

The other weekend myself and some friends went out to play paintball. I use a Micro-emag with the level 10 and my other buddies use a Rt pro and Minimag both with level 10's. Now heres the catch. We live in Alaska. The temperature that day was in the mis 30's. As always we stand around and shoot the breeze before we play. Well in doing so our guns got cold. Well when we test fired them, almost as if at the same time all three started to leak. This never occoured during warm weather. Has anyone else expirienced this. Please let me know. Thanks AOer's

[Food is Yummy]

well are u guys shooting co2?

cuz that could be the problem

[gadget68]

Nope, all compressed air, My emag and the RT can not use CO2.

[Food is Yummy]

well maybe your orings froze in the cold weather

i dont kno im new at this lol

[spazzed]

My guess would be that the carrier o-rings shrunk due to the cold.

[nospmas311]

Same probelm

Hey, I had the same problem. I live in Massachusetts and played recently and had a leak. I switched carriers down half a notch (I went from a 1.5 to a 1.0) and it solved the problem.

[SeeK]

Originally posted by spazzed
My guess would be that the carrier o-rings shrunk due to the cold.

It's more likely that the Aluminium components shrunk because of the cold. Aluminium has a high coefficient of expansion/contraction. This would also occur in the summer if you just finished shooting a bunch.