My dumb mistake of the day!!!

[sjrtk]

Ok, laugh at me. Rebuilt my classic RT, cleaned out all the gunk stripped it all the way down and put it back together. So i gas her up and nothing no trigger tension it will not fire, i scratch my head for five min cuss a little. Then i look in the table and see my dumb self forgot to PUT THE SEAR BACK IN! Put the sear in works fine. Me today ->

[maniacmechanic]

well your 2nd one of the day is telling us

[nerobro]

I have one better. Air up a classic mag with the on/off pin missing. at 12:30am... with your parents sleeping.

How about this one. Set the velocity real low. "think" you degassed the gun. Proceed to disassemble. Get so far as pulling the trigger frame off when the on/off pin decides to depart the valve.

It took me an hour to find it.

;-) This was also ten years ago now.

[fishmishin]

Haha it's funny how fast those on/off pins come out of there isn't it ?

[mpsd]

I always say that if it's that's easy to fix, then you couldn't ask for a "better" problem.

[El Camino]

OK, I think I rank high on the dummy list with this, I was working on my CP 2K5 rail mount ASA sleeper, on the frame (frame off the rail), I was checking for leaks. I used a short piece of macro line with one end melted shut to block off the macro fitting, so I slapped on a little 13ci tank for air, turned on the air ......... "NO LEAKS"! (OK here's were it gets dumb) So with that I turned off the air, and proceeded to remove the macro line. My big fingers had a hard time pulling the collar back on the fitting, so I used a pair of pliers to work back the collar, while holding all this on my belly, about that time ....POW!!!.. the macro line went flying and hit me in my hand, under pressure (850 psi) WHAT THE H*#@! I turned off the air, but I didn't degas. Damn that hurts!!
DA award right here!!

[VailSkibum]

How about this one. Set the velocity real low. "think" you degassed the gun. Proceed to disassemble. Get so far as pulling the trigger frame off when the on/off pin decides to depart the valve.

It took me an hour to find it.

;-) This was also ten years ago now.

I did almost the same thing with my new X-Valve. I popped the valve and the ULT flew out.
However, I never did find the little bottom part of the pin for the ULT.

Wow, I almost feel better now that I got that off my chest...

[fflamingmoe]

How about sitting there thinking no power?
Then to find out an hour later that i didn't put the trigger magnets back in ahaha.

[ProblemKinder]

everytime I take a tippmann apart I forget to put something back in. every. single. time.

[Runamok]

Me am a moron
I rebuild my classic valve
re assemble the mag
air it up and it won't work.
de gas gun disassemble and re check everything
re assemble and air it up again...still nothing
I'm about to take it apart again when I notice I've only got 500 psi in the tank.
put the gun down and walk away!!

[FA22RaptorF22]

I rebuilt a valve for someone who said it was leaking....well, a lot.

Took it apart to find the reg seat ring missing...gee I wonder what that does



I believe I had a funny once where I forgot to put anything in the power tube.
Lets just say...that failed.

[kcombs9]

Put my lvl X in my minimag valve. air it up pulled trigger but it would only cuff. took it apart 3 times, switched on / off assembly. turns out I hadn't turned the velocity up to compensate for the lvl x... works fine.

[TwilightG]

I almost made the mistake of testing the anti-chop of a lvl7 after reassembling my minimag.
(note: testing usually involves inserting my index finger into the breach)


... I have also made the missing-sear mistake too. Quite often actually

[Temo Vryce]

A number of years ago a friend of mine ran a shooting booth at a local fair using VM68s. They were tied down and were running remote lines to C02 under the counter. At one point one of them had issues. So my friend walks around to the customer side of the counter and proceeds to remove the back screw/bolt to service the internals. After he said "Just as I got the bolt out I remembered about the tank on the remote line. Then the internals hit me in the gut." Fortunately my friend was a big guy at the time as I'm sure there was enough pressure to push the internals right through me.

[sjrtk]

Nice to know I'm not the only one.