New players and $1400 guns?

[cpt]

me too?

I'm 55 nad I can't get my parents to buy me any of my stuff either. Any advice?

[Beemer]

The Problem

Mass Marketing = Uninformed, Uneducated, Unsafe


"BELLEVILLE - A 12-year-old boy was blinded in his right eye when a loaded paintball gun left on a table accidentally fired, according to a lawsuit filed in St. Clair County Circuit Court."

the gun allegedly went off after Leehy's son bumped a table.

The lawsuit also lists as defendants Paintball City of Belleville where Leehy allegedly bought the paintball gun and Odyssey Group International of Mobile, Ala., the manufacturer.

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/8252352.htm

[matt-o]

that article basically said that 1000 people were hurt paintballing in 2000 but one in a thousand of those injuries were related to the actuall firing of the gun? so one person (the one in the article?) was actually hurt by a ball to the eye. honestly i though there was more than that, not saying we should be careless but that really isnt too significant. excuse me if i somehow looked at the numbers wrong.

[paint magnet]

Hmm... thats the way "everyone" does it - though most of the time there left on the marker. Judging by other industries fill standards though it is far from the correct method. What you are doing is referred to as a "Flash fill" and if you talk with people who are involved with HPA you will find it is not as safe as we think it is. SCUBA for instance uses "blast chambers" or compartmetns to fill the tank - the hoses we used are often untethered or theres a piece of string... you will find our "accepted" way of doing it is very wrong.

The hose is screwed down to the table. And yes, I do realize that flash filling is not the safest method to fill a tank, common sense would tell you that. I usually turn the pressure down on the fill station and then slowly turn it up while holding the button in or at least fill the tank partially and wait a little while. It is, however, the way that particular fill station is designed to be used, and I would hope that it's not on the market if it's unsafe. They seem to be in widespread use (Bauer fill stations) and the only problems I've heard of were the occasional busted regulator o-ring (seemed to be more prevalent with the Angel A.I.R.) or fill nipple.

mobsterboy Please PM me if you want to talk about something other than the topic being discussed.