cphilip Spyder project update...

[cphilip]

Ok so a bit of new development on this project:

I just got back from Paintball Inc. (used to be National PB Supply). There main warehouse is just up the road in Greenville SC. Picked up some stuff for the project.

As you may recall this thing is going to Redrider87 for a powder coating job. I have decided to not coat the grip frame and leave it black. Reason is have you ever seen how many pins and springs and such are in this darn thing? A pain in the rear to take them all out and return them after. MAKES YOU APRECIATE THE SIMPLICITY OF YOUR MAG!!! So since I am laving it black a few others things may be left black to smooth the transitions. Here is a lsit of each:

Powder Coated

Main body
Low Pressure Chamber
Bottom ASA
Site Rail
Taso Drop (new from todays purchase)
Cro Molly 16 oz CO2 tank (also new...more later about this)

Left Black

Grip frame
Fore Grip
Verticle Adapter


Also Barrels left as they are black and and the SS line left chrome.


THE BIG NEWS!

More about the Cro Molly tank: It seems that DOT now exempts Cro Molly Steel CO2 tanks from rehydro for... LIFE! Yes! it's a new regulation change. Cro Molly CO2 tanks are now exempt so you can remove the sticker and have them coated. And they are good for...well...forever! These are the ones with the rounded bottoms (not the flat Aluminum ones)and have NO DATE on them at all.

So I got one from Paintball Inc and had them leave the valve out for now. They actualy assemble them there as you buy them so no problem for them to do this for me. I got one of the valves with the on/off and when Red gets done with the matching tank coating they are going to install this valve in for me. This is real exciting stuff. They showed me two they had done like this in both blue and red. This will be the sweatest upgrade to match the marker of it all!

I am still leaning towords the Reptile Green. I hope to have this in the mail to Red in the next few days. We should be able to see this thing completed in a few weeks.

Any comments?

[giant1515]

you have way too much time on your hands

if you're decking out a spyder . I never liked mine enough to put any more money in it beyond a gas thru grip and barrel. Instead i saved my quarters and bought a mag

On a side note, I'm sure it will look awesome when you get it back. I hope you can do something to it to make it shoot as good as it will look.

Giant

[Butterfingers]

Probably a typo by phil, but for the rest of you just to let you know you can't anno chromoly.

Don't anno your chromoly tank Its a steel alloy. You will end up with a pile of rust and possibly a small fire. LOL try sending that in to be rehydroed.

You gotta get those things powdercoated.

[cphilip]

Ha! well...it is a hair brained scheme isn't it?

No you had to read the earlier stuff on it to know. A little backgound is that once a year we have this thing we call "Spyder Class" only markers tourney. Cannot use the Mags. So it's for that one thing and I wanted it to be cool looking too in between. And a nice little loaner for the in between times for kids that come out with my kid. And Red offered to make it look cool for me as well. So why not? However it will always be a Spyder no doubt.

[cphilip]

Oh shoot! Yes butter your right its only powder coating I meant to say...fixing now. Thanks!

Actualy I had ment to comment on some Aluminum ones they also showed me that they got Anno'ed to match some markers. Those were nice as well. But not life time hydro and they had dates stamped into them. They are 16 ounce flat bottom Aluminum and they came to them as raw (non finished) aluminum tanks no stickers or anything ready to anno. They have a bunch of those too.

[Cliffio]

Re: cphilip Spyder project update...

Originally posted by cphilip
I am still leaning towords the Reptile Green. I hope to have this in the mail to Red in the next few days. We should be able to see this thing completed in a few weeks.

Joy Division Leopard Print!!!!

that would be hella cool!

[cphilip]

Ha! Well yes Cliffio that would be cool...but he can only do fades of two colors or single colors that do or don't have crackling technics in them.

[Cliffio]

Originally posted by cphilip
Ha! Well yes Cliffio that would be cool...but he can only do fades of two colors or single colors that do or don't have crackling technics in them.

awww

cause a jd leopard spyder would be super pimp

hmmm, can spyders be anodized?

just wodering, maybe ill start my own project

[cphilip]

Yes I am certain the main body is Aluminum so at least that part can be Anno'ed. But in this case the guy is a powder coater. And you can powder coat Aluminum as well as Steel. And it's a lot cheaper to do that and looks real nice too.

Sure do it!

[Cliffio]

but i sold my spyder
(as you know since u bought it)



i dunno if your heard but did Pro Paintball stop anodizing guns?
because if so then PK is about all thats left in the way of animal prints, and wow are they expensive

but anyways, sounds like a cool spyder, i guess

Cliff

[cphilip]

I do not know the connection between PK select and Pro PB. Is there one? I thought they were seperate entities? And It would surprise me to know PKS was going to shut down. They do a lot of industrial stuff other than Paintball.

[Cliffio]

no i was asking if pro paintball still did anodizing, i heard that they quit doing animal prints


and then i said that pk was the only one left that would do animal prints, yeah i doubt that pk will close they do just about everything with anodizing


later
Cliff

[cphilip]

OK gotcha!

You will be interested in knowing its your old Spyder that is going for the coating project now. Just got to put a new Striker O ring in it and test fire it before tearing it down tonight. I decided to keep synreals all black one as black as it looked too good to do it to the poor thing. I realy liked the all black look in the Spyder more than the sivler black combo one way more than I thought I would.

[Cliffio]

stryker O ring?
was something wrong with it??
i thought that it was in perfect order?
just wondering, im really sorry if something didnt work, thats weird!

let me know if i can do anything

Cliff

[cphilip]

It ain't no big thing. It was missing is all. I noticed it when I took it apart to look it over. Those things blow out all the time. Well often anyways or they get cut. Besides I was planning on complete set of new O rings when I re-assemble it after the coating anyway. I mean... why not do it while you got it all apart? Easy to fix. No problem at all.