Jason's safty tip #1

[Drizit]

no I don't plan to start a series but it just sounded good. I really should have seen this coming and now I feel really dumb for letting it happen, I thought I'd share this with everyone so you can avoid the embarrassment and possible injury.

for a while now my field strip screw has had a bit of a bend in it right about where the valve and body meet when it's screwed all the way in. I just ignored it because it didn't cause any problems with getting the screw in and out. (my mistake) I was at field showing a bunch of new players considering what guns to get what a mag was all about, when suddenly the bolt stared to stick, I looked at the valve and it was backing itself out of the gun (right towards my face) then the bottom half of the screw fell out of the gun, onto the floor. about this time I realized that but of milling that makes it a pain to get the valve out may have just saved half my face (there was no paint and therefore I had no mask on.) I got the tank off and disaster was avoided but it was a bit close for my liking.

Moral:
don't screw around with 450psi of air and a bunch of stainless steel. if your field strip screw starts to show some sort of ware REPLACE IT, it's only $7 for Peet's sake. *slaps self for not following own advice*

of all the pieces to ware out the strip screw and the pin that sticks into that bit of milling seam to be about the most important safety wise, as far as I can tell.

[FooTemps]

You were sorta ignorant by not replacing the field strip screw but it was nice of you to warn us about what happens.

[Miscue]

Here's another tip: Don't disassemble your gun while it's still pressurized. Trust me.

[X-Plosive]

yeah or the on/off assembly will fly out and hit you in the eye

[Drizit]

You mean that's a bad idea? Thanks Miscuse, I always forget that one.

[Xzion]

lol

Id have to go with the ignorant, but thanx for warning us, now we'll know why its a good idea to replace it instead of using educated guesses and speculations on why one should make sure the field strip screw is in pristene order... good thing nobody got hurt, and try to stay away from those one way streets, especially when going the WRONG WAY... right Drizit? ROTFL (inside joke for all those who are wondering lol)

[Drizit]

aahhh... but it was so much fun looking at the headlights of a garbage truk. :o

[Xzion]

I'd have to agree with ya there, Drizit. Except, Looking at the headlights of an ON COMING Garbage truck isnt my idea of fun!

[Drizit]

come on... where's your sense of adventure?

[slateman]

How about "e"- all of the above

An ignorant, missguided, unobservant, nice guy who admitted that he was wrong and warned everybody so they won't do the samething.

[Xzion]

I didnt know adventure meant picking your teeth out of the grille of a garbage truck

[PFAutomag33]

I think you are just a nice guy admitting you were wrong...I think I am going to check my field strip screw now...haha.

John

[emanjamin]

I put together a mag once and ran co2 through it to make sure everthing sealed. I stopped took off the tank and let it sit over night, and in the morning, I took out the valve and the pin still shot out and hit me in the forhead. I have had this happend two times to me now. I have never found one of the on/off pins, and the entire valve shot out at me the other time.
Wierd...

[SGTKennedy]

Ive never had that problem, but occasionally i will degas my RT and itll still shoot once, and other times it wont. its odd. I wonder if your gun held the gas like mine. except you didnt pull the trigger like i did. so when you got the gun apart the pressure launched the On/Off at you. hmm. ill be more careful now.
Kennedy

[Drizit]

the reason your guns held gas was it got traped in the reg. this happens more often the more regs you have. (depending on the type of reg of course) but i've seen it happen on mags with a secondary reg a few times, and i've also seen it on cockers a quit often.