I've been cruising this forum since I picked up a mag last fall. Great forum!!!
Anyway, I've got a classic valve, powerfeed with a lvl10. Last weekend I finally got to use it, but had some problems. The temperature was around 45deg, and I was running a 24oz. CO2 through a Palmers stabilizer in a bottomline configuration. I point the 15deg bottom line forward, so that the gun is a much shorter profile. This allows me to carry the gun with the barrel down without filling the line with liquid. Also, the layout of the course kept aiming mostly level or below...I don't ever remember aiming up (therefore I should not have had liquid getting to my palmer). Anyway, there were a few occasions where the bolt would stick and leak until I tapped the trigger a couple of times. It seemed to come in spurts, like it'd happend 3-4 times in a row, and then it would't happen again for 40-50 cycles. I'm assuming I got liquid in the valve, but I can dry fire it as fast as I want without this happening (though I admit I do that in my house, which is closer to 65deg). Is there anything else I should look at, or is this a clear case of liquid in the valve?
Oh, one more thing... none of my firing was very fast, maybe a 4bps string for 12 balls or so being the max. To give you an idea, I think I used ~400 balls in 5 games.
Thanks for any input. I think I'll test it tonight trying to suck liquid directly into the stabilizer and see what happens.
Drew
Anyway, I've got a classic valve, powerfeed with a lvl10. Last weekend I finally got to use it, but had some problems. The temperature was around 45deg, and I was running a 24oz. CO2 through a Palmers stabilizer in a bottomline configuration. I point the 15deg bottom line forward, so that the gun is a much shorter profile. This allows me to carry the gun with the barrel down without filling the line with liquid. Also, the layout of the course kept aiming mostly level or below...I don't ever remember aiming up (therefore I should not have had liquid getting to my palmer). Anyway, there were a few occasions where the bolt would stick and leak until I tapped the trigger a couple of times. It seemed to come in spurts, like it'd happend 3-4 times in a row, and then it would't happen again for 40-50 cycles. I'm assuming I got liquid in the valve, but I can dry fire it as fast as I want without this happening (though I admit I do that in my house, which is closer to 65deg). Is there anything else I should look at, or is this a clear case of liquid in the valve?
Oh, one more thing... none of my firing was very fast, maybe a 4bps string for 12 balls or so being the max. To give you an idea, I think I used ~400 balls in 5 games.
Thanks for any input. I think I'll test it tonight trying to suck liquid directly into the stabilizer and see what happens.
Drew
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