X valve or barrel kit

[breg]

By the way, are you running on compressed air? If you get an X Valve, you have to run compresed air.

[*ArKfEaR*]

My freak worked fine for me.

Nazi's or not its a damn good barrel.

If you want just get the inserts and case and get a hourglass style back with boomstick tip from www.whitewolfairsmithing.com

[kosmo]

For most people, barrel kits are a fad, and an unnecessary one at that. If you go from tourney to tourney and shoot all sorts of paint, then go for a 7 or 10 piece barrel kit. But if you only play with 2 different kinds of paint, you dont need that much. Besides, you can get 2 more CP barrels, i.e. a .687 and a .691 for only like 80 bucks together and it should completely cover what you need. But a retro/x valve completely makes your mag a new gun. IMO definately get the X and wait on the barrel kit until you actually need one.

[GoatBoy]

I like the way people give advice without asking the person some somewhat relevant questions first.


Regardless...

Multipiece barrels are bunk. Barrel bore sizing fetishes are also bunk.

Chopping paint doesn't necessarily take you out of a game... Unless you're shooting a POS multipiece and/or heavily ported barrel, which are damn near impossible to shoot clean, thanks to the seams and porting. I like the way this industry causes problems for its players, then concocts more schemes to extract more money out of them to solve these problems. Two good, lightly ported, different ID 1-piece barrels will do you just fine.

Nazi's or not, it's damn good marketing fluff.

X-Valves are good if you really shoot fast. Like if you go more than 10bps. Bust out the microphone and a WAV editor and measure how fast you really shoot. The level 10 will help, but chopping a ball now and then isn't fatal, and probably isn't that common at low rates of fire and a decent hopper. A reactive trigger can be nice if you're really shooting fast as well.


I say you should investigate all these things first, and maybe try someone's x-valve out first before spending that hard earned money.

[Jerhew]

ya i'd get the xvalve and pic up 2 more cp barrels...
there is no reason in the world to have 7 inserts/backs...
paint is just too inconsistant to have to have bores .002 apart...
all you need is a small bore, mid bore and large bore barrel
the x-valve will change your life!
don't believe anyone who says otherwise

[Lohman446]

I settled on the X-valve - I walked into my local field last week and the owner had an unopened X-valve he had no use for - when I asked him about a price today on it and I told him what it was worth he gave it to me for $100 less than I expected to pay - making it pretty easy - I wasn't sure if I was going to have enough money for one, but I did - wohoo. Put it in gun, pulled trigger - counted shims (the level 10 disc confused me) and decided the level ten must already be installed, put squeegie in, pulled trigger, worked like a charm. I LOVE IT

[SIGSays]

Originally posted by sk8bordr706
get the x valve , its like gettin a whole new gun.

amen!

[Jerhew]

bonus

oh ya
and now you're in position to get the ul trigger when it comes out

[Ryknow]

X-valve

then an equation or scepter kit.