A Cocker is born

[ZapTheMad]

2 years of collecting parts and the final piece came in the mail today. 10 hours of build time all done today. Still needs some final tuning but it is a working marker. I have to wait for some balls. It's also my first Cocker!

Meet AKA VLM #0019

When this baby grows up it will have some light milling and full dust black anno job. Every single piece of aluminum will be done.





Specs:

AKA VLM Serial #0019 - The Merlin came after these, It uses '99 parts.
Check It Delrin Bolt - 2000 Part
RAT Valve 3:16
Stainless Hammer
AKA Cocking Rod
Unknown Back Block - 2000 Part
Stainless Rods
Unknown Chrome Front Block - AKA block is fugly, sold it.
Mako Adjustable LPR
Palmer Quick Switch
ANS Stainless Ram - Added a 90* fitting.
Unknown Stainless LPC
Vertical ASA For Mini's
Home Made Gas Thru Grip - Part from a PG-1 Tornado, my very first gun.
Eclipse Hinge Trigger Frame
Benchmark Drop Forward - Modified, added bolt holes for reg.
Smart Parts Max Flow - When it gets anno, it won't be SP anymore :)

Runs off a 16 oz. stubby CO2 tank.

Hope you like it!

[SpecialBlend2786]

looks cool, can't wait to see how it turns out after anno!

[-=Squid=-]

Cool... I like to see things like this come togethor. But, Id definitely ditch the maxflo, and put a verticle reg on there.

[68_Classic]

nice gun man

[punkncat]

Its fun building your own cocker isn't it? I just got finished with my self built Boxxer. Built a 99 before that , and am about to build another 99. Pre 2K parts are so easy to find and people will practically(and have) give them to me. They get really bent when I go to the field with what was previously a box of worthless parts to them and school them with an "obsolete" marker.

[GT]

Cool... I like to see things like this come togethor. But, Id definitely ditch the maxflo, and put a verticle reg on there.

Runs off a 16 oz. stubby CO2 tank.

I would stay with the maxy

[ZapTheMad]

Finally got it shooting 280 this afternoon. These things are definitely difficult (fun?) to tune. It's running about 280 PSI with lightest valve spring and heaviest striker spring. I couldn't sweet spot the reg, only goes up to 300 so I couldn't see if the velocity leveled out. I will probly be changing the reg and bumping the pressure up to see what happens. I have a feeling it's a hog right now.

After I got done I decided to double check my other markers and get them ready for next weekend. Pulled out the mag, a couple drops of oil, popped it a few times to spread the oil. Threw on the barrel, bang!, 280, 6 in a row. Good to go...

Pulled out the UBER Dragun. 260, 270, 280, 280, 280, CHOP! A nastyone too. Wedged the bolt closed and got paint into the valve chamber and hammer. The valve didn't even get a chance to open and blow anything out. Taking it part right now, what a mess...

Think I'm gonna part out the Dragun on ebay.

Mags own, period.

[Destructo6]

10 hours of build time!? Must be your first Cocker...:)

Yeah, there's very little difference in pre/post-2000 Autocockers that would affect performance, especially in a nice aftermarket setup like that.

Anyway, it looks good and I suspect it will look great after it is dusted.

[tony3]

That foregrip is horrible

Love those aka bodies though!

[teufelhunden]

That looks to be a 2k1-2k3 stock backblock, but there isn't a great view. Just so ya know.

[Muzikman]

10 hours of build time!? Must be your first Cocker...:)

I was gonna say the same thing

[ZapTheMad]

Yup, 10 hours. Every part has been completely disassembled, inspected/cleaned/polished/rebuilt/modified, and then put together. It's not exactly a box of factory parts that just bolt together and work perfect the first try. Almost every part needed some kind of tweaking.

[punkncat]

Finally got it shooting 280 this afternoon. These things are definitely difficult (fun?) to tune. It's running about 280 PSI with lightest valve spring and heaviest striker spring. I couldn't sweet spot the reg, only goes up to 300 so I couldn't see if the velocity leveled out. I will probly be changing the reg and bumping the pressure up to see what happens. I have a feeling it's a hog right now.

Mine was setup to run at 240 PSI , but I was using incredible amounts of air. I tweaked it a bit and got it running at 290 now and it shot 500 rounds on 2000 PSI from a 68ci tank. Better than any cocker I have ever owned.

[Tiberius]

I got a cocker question. Is it true that anything electronic that adjusts speed (main example is an eblade) is illegal in tournaments? Because I was looking at an e-blade but this idea is scaring me away

[ZapTheMad]

I think most electro grips have some sort of tourney lock feature that disables any functions that would change the way the marker fires.