Bolt Stick LvL7

[Lobos]

As the topic says, seems I'm having a bolt stick problem. Everywhere I read it says to put in the next longer spacer.... well, I have the .235 spacer in (longest in the kit) and I'm still having it.

Clean the bolt and spring? check

Change out the bolt spring for a new one? check. Other than having to push harder to put the internals back on didn't really notice much difference.

Also tried to give the powertube tip a 1/4 turn out to see what happens, same thing.

What else could be doing this?

Oddly, when the problem began, it only stuck when shooting paint, not while dry firing, now when I gas it up it gets stuck usually on the second shot.

I'm about ready to call AGD and send it out in the mail, but since I live in Puerto Rico this isn't cheap, so trying to solve the problem myself... plus I'm the only automag owner I know so don't have any one with any experience near me.

I haven't taken apart the reg and valve part to see if anything is amiss there.

++EDIT++
I notice that when putting it all together, the bolt doesn't go all the way back to the bumper unless I push on it, it has like a 1/8-1/16 gap in between. If I try to force it back it goes back but then when I release it, the bolt goes back out and leaves the gap. Is this normal?

[Lobos]

checking the bolt stem now, its all clean.

I'll retry the new spring, but already tried it at the field and didn't work, I'll try it again tomorrow, don't have gas now.

And by sticking, I mean the bolt stays about an 1/8 of an inch from going fully back and I have to remove the barrel and push it back to recock it.

[athomas]

Make sure there isn't anything in the powertube that might keep the oring from going all the way to the back. Is the bolt a genuine AGD bolt? Some of the ANS venturi bolts caused weird problems. Are the on-off top orings in good condition? A leaking oring there could cause bolt reset problems.

[Lobos]

Everything is as it came in the box.

Checked the powertube o-ring, found it had a weird orangy color and seemed a tiny bit expanded, switched that out. Also finally managed to get an HPA tank (48cu 3000psi). It seems to be working now, I will put some paint thru it on the weekend and see how that goes.

lol, took apart the whole thing, finally saw how it was all inside, nice piece of precision engineering. Looks a bit sensitive though, now I know why they say HPA is 10x better for mags than CO2...

[paintballmarshaltn]

First CO2 is a dirty and somewhat instable gas. Compressed gas"air/nitrogen" is more stable and cleaner.And little to no spikes in pressure unless a bad reg is used.

[captian pinky]

my guess is that it may be ur barrel that ur bolt is beeing slowed down buy it i knew someone that had the same problem changed barrels and it was fixed

[Lobos]

K, got it fixed.

Appears the CO2 had expanded the powertube o-ring and that was getting the bolt stem stuck. Also using HPA.

Tried it out in the field, and if it weren't for a few chops, due to my own stupidity in forgetting to turn on the agitated hopper, it would have been a 'perfect gun' day.