I Did It!

[InfinatyBPS]

The thing he is mad at is he stripped his body. Not the screw. If you strip a customed Cocker body it could be $400+ right there to get a new one, right out the window(almost litteraly in this case), and I know how he feels in this, You have a $1000 gun and you need to replace a $400+ part. I would be pissed to. Think about it. What if your Extreme or SFL emag body got jacked up thats like $400 for another one. I don't think it is good to be telling that someone who just pretty much lost $400 get mad and complain here, that they are stupid for being mad.

[SGTKennedy]

it can be retapped. just use a bigger screw. or there are other fixes. you just have to look a little.
My dads company uses PEM nuts. im not sure but i bet they would work on his cocker too. they are a steel nut that is pressed in and it cuts into the surrounding aluminum and is pretty strong.

Or maybe drill the hole out a bit and try to use a glob of JB weld in there and tap that for the right size?

Hes not helpless. he just threw a temper tantrum.

[sifu01]

Originally posted by manike
Dissapointed with a lot of you...

What happened to "if you don't have something nice to say don't say anything at all?"

Everyone makes mistakes ... said the darlik climbing of a dustbin... and frustration gets to the best of us.

manike

Funny how you are the only one trying to be positive. What should we say? BTW who cares if you are disappointed...you don't sign my paycheck.

[paintball8869]

a number of paintball shops take care of these things with stainless steel helicoils (i hope that's what they're called). basically, it's a stainless steel insert that goes into the hole that was stripper. It is then threaded to the appropriate dimensions of the screw and the gun is screwed back together again and works perfectly. I've heard of a number of people stripping screws on the intimidators (aluminum body+ SS screw+ tight fit= bad combo). This can be done by Jim at Paintball Kingdom (www.paintballkingdom.com). I believe it's less than $30 to do it, probably a lot less, but shipping is a pain. Just something to think about before throwing out a $1000+ gun over something like that.

[sifu01]

He didn't want help!

Whatever...dorks.

[manike]

Originally posted by sifu01
Funny how you are the only one trying to be positive. What should we say? BTW who cares if you are disappointed...you don't sign my paycheck.

You know it's a real sad day when the world beats down on someone who makes mistakes which only affect themselves. If you don't try you don't achieve. In my days of design I've stripped threads and got so annoyed with parts that I've wanted to hurl or smash them.

If everytime we made a mistake in the development of the body machining for the extreme, and I hadn't been part of a supportive group then you wouldn't see those designs here yet. AO is supposed to be a supportive friendly group.

It's much harder and a much greater thing to do, to try and lift and help someone who is down than it is to just be another one of the crowd who steps on the person on their way past.

I was dissapointed in the general mood of the response I saw from AO, it wasn't the friendly helpful atmosphere it should have been.

I'm proud of the people who have replied responsibly to try and help the guy.

Sifu01, I'm sorry if you don't care if I'm dissapointed but if I got responses like yours or those here I would pretty rapidly stop doing anything in support of AO. I wouldn't be machining those extreme bodies to designs people have put here and I wouldn't be helping get your ideas and designs into production.

We should all care.

manike

[hitech]

Originally posted by manike
We should all care.

THAT is the bottom line. Isn't that what this place is about?