My Rainmaker

[Timmee]

I'm a member of the RMOG. That's where I've been getting a lot of ideas for my RM upgrade path.

[AOWarrior]

cocker

older pic

[Ov3rmind]

A little confused AOWarrior?

Anyway, I always thought am RM would be fun to tinker with (nice RM by the way!). I don't have the money for a project like that right now (behind several other projects, LOL), maybe in a few years.

[vf-xx]

actually he's not confused. he was just posting that cause he wants to trade. It's all good.

Along the lines of project guns, the RM isn't as expensive as some, so long as you have access to a machine shop.

[Kevmaster]

RM upgrades = cheap

yeh!
RMOG Super Store

[Ov3rmind]

LOL, I see :o . I thought at first he was just trying to show off his gun (didn't see any indication that he was offering to trade).

Now that I've thought about it some more, I may actually get an RM for this Winter (when I paintball less frequently). I could get enough money for one, and get some upgrades and such to mess around with. I still wan't to sell my BM eventually and build a Merlin or Ripper Cocker, however, that is a much more expensive project than screwing around with a RM. It'd also be a good backup to my Cocker.

[Kevmaster]

talk to my friends over at the Brass Eagle Owners Group . theyll tell you the best places to pick up a used RM and where you can get the upgrade parts

i love my RM

[cris8762]

yeah kevin that was hilarious, but i wanted to see ur emag/halo/lvl10 combo in action more!

i didnt get to see you rock that bad boy much!

[billmi]

The RM's a fun paintgun to tinker with, especially because you can find them for cheap, and surprisingly it performs pretty decently on the field.

They can get pretty compact, especially once you strip off extra stuff, like the back-block. Switching to a ProTeam 'mag grip, putting the MAC valve in the grip, and relying on the Revy for providing power and holding the electronics freed up more space.

See you on the field,
-Bill Mills

[Kevmaster]

Bill, your rainmaker is one of a kind. i really admire its ingenousness. however, i think the more traditional format of MAC right udner the ram on a Mac Mount, Battery in the tank cover and a regular board in the frame. you do need a bacblock tho to make it more compact. go with a vert reg...yeh...not a HORIZONTAL reg, jeez, what idiot would want one fo those?

[billmi]

Originally posted by kevmaster
however, i think the more traditional format of MAC right udner the ram on a Mac Mount, Battery in the tank cover and a regular board in the frame.

Yep, layout is a personal preference issue.

you do need a bacblock tho to make it more compact.

No, the backblock makes it larger, not smaller. Get rid of it, and it will be smaller. If you're not mounting the main reg on the back, there's no need to have that block hanging off the back, or the back piece of the bolt cover, it's just extra metal hanging off the back.

go with a vert reg...yeh...not a HORIZONTAL reg, jeez, what idiot would want one fo those?

I like that layout better - one of the configurations I had set up for a while had the unireg on a remote with the air system, which took even more off of the 'gun. But then you ended up using a remote, which is like having a big tatoo on your head that says "ROOKIE." :-)

See you on the field,
-Bill Mills

[vf-xx]

Originally posted by billmi
But then you ended up using a remote, which is like having a big tatoo on your head that says "ROOKIE." :-)

Hey! I resent that! I make a remote look nice with my emag. Just toss the tank into a camel pack and run the remote line over a shoulder and it stays mostly out of the way, doesn't snag, and still leaves you pretty manuverable.

On another note, I gutted and drilled out my stock reg today. Yay! That stupid vent hole taps easily to a 12-24, but I wasn't able to find a set screw that size. So until I find one i'm just going to live with cutting down a normal machine screw *sigh* I'm also planning to move the rock to the back block. I've had trouble with it freezing over, so I figure that moving it should keep it safe. This way it'll have an xchamber and a reg between it and the tank so I figure it should work.

I'm also debating about trying to mod a z grip to fit on it. That just sounds like a cool mod hehe.

[Kevmaster]

bill:
when i say backblock, id ont mean the whole backblock assy, i mean the backblock that is flush with your bolt cover(ok, so its not QUITE as compact as yours, but i dont have a big honkin website to pay me to make cool stuff). \



as for the "ZGrip" ive always wanted to take tat to the extreeme with EGuns. put the trigger on the bottom of the trigger guard. hgave it horizontal. it would be fine for me as i usually shoot with one hand holding the gun around the tank/reg part and one hand doing teh tapping of the trigger. well have ot see...that may be comming to a RM near you someday......

[billmi]

when i say backblock, id ont mean the whole backblock assy, i mean the backblock that is flush with your bolt cover

That's the part I'm talking about. Putting it on doesn't make the RM smaller, it makes it bigger. Leaving it off, keeps it smaller - even then there's probably another 1/4" at least that could be milled off the back of the receiver.

i dont have a big honkin website to pay me to make cool stuff

Neither do I, it sure would be cool if I did.

as for the "ZGrip" ive always wanted to take tat to the extreeme with EGuns. put the trigger on the bottom of the trigger guard. hgave it horizontal. it would be fine for me as i usually shoot with one hand holding the gun around the tank/reg part and one hand doing teh tapping of the trigger. well have ot see...that may be comming to a RM near you someday......

That would be pretty cool.

See you on the field,
-Bill Mills

[vf-xx]

That's the part I'm talking about. Putting it on doesn't make the RM smaller, it makes it bigger. Leaving it off, keeps it smaller - even then there's probably another 1/4" at least that could be milled off the back of the receiver.

Well personally I think the RM is short enough to begin with and its a given that I have an extremely different style of play from most people here (as I play woods/rec/scenerio not speedball/tourney) Besides is it useless to use the reg area as a volumizer for LP uses?