Okay now I know why people hate these things...
Mods: I'm not sure where this should go. I put it here because it more of a complaint against AGD than a technical question. Move if you wish.
I jumped onto the mag bandwagon about a two weeks ago, mainly because of the positive coments found on this board. I have been playing for a while. Perviously I have ownwed a tippmann, which was rock solid reliable, and a cocker which very occainsionally would go down, but the problems were always quite easy to fix (maybe I would miss one hour to fix a leaky three way). When I first got my mag it was HEAVEN. I couldn't belive it. A brand new ULE custom straight from the factory. Looked great shot great, the velocity was right where I needed it. And best of all it never choped, a had a ball burst occainsionally , but chopping was a thing of the past. I couldn't believe that everybody wasn't raving about these things. That lasted for about one half day of play (1000 balls). At first the problems were minimal, a bit of bolt stick, the occasional double fire, etc. A pretty broad range of symptoms. Then the trigger started cutting out. Then lots of leaking down the barrel. All these problems started to manifest within 500 rounds. No warning it would just stop working. So I take the marker and go down a carrier on the LX. I leave it with three shims in there (as it came from the factory) which seemed like a lot, but whatever. It starts firing again (no more leaking down the barrel), but now its super duper reactive. Impossible to fire just one shot. So its time to work on the ULT. I open up the ULT and find that the boys at AGD had left a whopping 6 shims in the ULT! So I knock that slowly down to 2. Now, its problem city again. The bolt will no longer work with the medium spring. It will fire like three shots and then cut out. And when I go back down to the stock bolt its better, but still bolt stick city! Half the time the lx works its stops the trigger from working. I give up. I have now gone back to my paintball store twice just to get my tank filled so I can try and tune this puppy. I've gone from heaven to hell.
From a technical standpoint it is by far the most complicated marker I have ever seen. The tolerances for the ULT (judging by the shims) seems to be on the order of one hundreth of an inch. With tolerances that tight Mr. Kaye's engineers should have realized that reliability would very likly be sacrificed. I am not a techy kind of guy. My VCR is not programed. I just want a marker that shoots well, and doesn't break balls or down. Furthermore, I don't understand is why there wasn't pages upon pages of documentation for this mag. I don't care if it looks like it was printed on a home copier on cheap paper, as long as its LONg and Thourough. All that came with it was a outdated SHORT manual, a tiny 3 inch by three inch sheet for the ULT and a square CD-Room for the LX that jams my CD-rom drive every time I insert it. I mean I wasn't even told how to remove the x-valve in the manual. I spent a while before I figured out you need to pull the trigger before removing the valve. How the hell was I supoosed to know that? I had to figure out how to udjust the shims on my ULT by myself. I spent a while trying to pull the thing in two before I relized that you have to unscrew it. I guess I shouldn't rag on AGD too hard, because I have yet to call up tech service. If they treat me well I will post a public apology. But still, this marker just seems like a unsolvable puzzle. I fix one aspect and a new problem pops up. And worst of all the two systems, trigger and bolt, seem to affect on another. So while your busy adjusting one, the other that was tuned gets thrown out of wack.
Look I know I'm gonna get flamed to hell and back for criticizing a marker everyone loves. But I when I called up AGD to order the thing, I told them I was technically challenged. I mean I really emphasized this. They assured me that everything would be set up for me at the factory, and the only I would need to do to keep the thing working was add some oil at the end of a days play. I wouldn't be so upset if they had just been honest with me: that with ULT and LX this is an extremely complex marker, and somewhat less than reliable unless you luck out and its set up perfect.
I jumped onto the mag bandwagon about a two weeks ago, mainly because of the positive coments found on this board. I have been playing for a while. Perviously I have ownwed a tippmann, which was rock solid reliable, and a cocker which very occainsionally would go down, but the problems were always quite easy to fix (maybe I would miss one hour to fix a leaky three way). When I first got my mag it was HEAVEN. I couldn't belive it. A brand new ULE custom straight from the factory. Looked great shot great, the velocity was right where I needed it. And best of all it never choped, a had a ball burst occainsionally , but chopping was a thing of the past. I couldn't believe that everybody wasn't raving about these things. That lasted for about one half day of play (1000 balls). At first the problems were minimal, a bit of bolt stick, the occasional double fire, etc. A pretty broad range of symptoms. Then the trigger started cutting out. Then lots of leaking down the barrel. All these problems started to manifest within 500 rounds. No warning it would just stop working. So I take the marker and go down a carrier on the LX. I leave it with three shims in there (as it came from the factory) which seemed like a lot, but whatever. It starts firing again (no more leaking down the barrel), but now its super duper reactive. Impossible to fire just one shot. So its time to work on the ULT. I open up the ULT and find that the boys at AGD had left a whopping 6 shims in the ULT! So I knock that slowly down to 2. Now, its problem city again. The bolt will no longer work with the medium spring. It will fire like three shots and then cut out. And when I go back down to the stock bolt its better, but still bolt stick city! Half the time the lx works its stops the trigger from working. I give up. I have now gone back to my paintball store twice just to get my tank filled so I can try and tune this puppy. I've gone from heaven to hell.
From a technical standpoint it is by far the most complicated marker I have ever seen. The tolerances for the ULT (judging by the shims) seems to be on the order of one hundreth of an inch. With tolerances that tight Mr. Kaye's engineers should have realized that reliability would very likly be sacrificed. I am not a techy kind of guy. My VCR is not programed. I just want a marker that shoots well, and doesn't break balls or down. Furthermore, I don't understand is why there wasn't pages upon pages of documentation for this mag. I don't care if it looks like it was printed on a home copier on cheap paper, as long as its LONg and Thourough. All that came with it was a outdated SHORT manual, a tiny 3 inch by three inch sheet for the ULT and a square CD-Room for the LX that jams my CD-rom drive every time I insert it. I mean I wasn't even told how to remove the x-valve in the manual. I spent a while before I figured out you need to pull the trigger before removing the valve. How the hell was I supoosed to know that? I had to figure out how to udjust the shims on my ULT by myself. I spent a while trying to pull the thing in two before I relized that you have to unscrew it. I guess I shouldn't rag on AGD too hard, because I have yet to call up tech service. If they treat me well I will post a public apology. But still, this marker just seems like a unsolvable puzzle. I fix one aspect and a new problem pops up. And worst of all the two systems, trigger and bolt, seem to affect on another. So while your busy adjusting one, the other that was tuned gets thrown out of wack.
Look I know I'm gonna get flamed to hell and back for criticizing a marker everyone loves. But I when I called up AGD to order the thing, I told them I was technically challenged. I mean I really emphasized this. They assured me that everything would be set up for me at the factory, and the only I would need to do to keep the thing working was add some oil at the end of a days play. I wouldn't be so upset if they had just been honest with me: that with ULT and LX this is an extremely complex marker, and somewhat less than reliable unless you luck out and its set up perfect.
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