Toughest marker ever?

[punkncat]

I have seen quite a few abused markers be made to work with very little effort, but this takes the cake.

A buddy of mine has an older rf cocker. The cocking rod had a bad habit of coming loose and he, having no patience for it, threw it into a huge mud puddle in his back yard. It stayed in that mud puddle for several weeks before I went out and rescued it. I gave it a spraying off with the water hose and aired it up. It worked somewhat, but definately had problems.

I took the marker apart and it had a great deal of trash inside. It appears that buddy had been using WD40 to lube the marker for its entire life. I dunno if you know anything about WD, but it actually attracts dirt. The valve chamber was filled with so much goo that I ended up having to put the parts into a vat to get it all out. I took apart the ram, 3 way, and regs cleaned them out, re-oiled everything, and put it back together. This thing works as well as the day it was made and with all the original parts and orings.

Gotta give it to ole Bud, he knows how to make em...lol

[p8ntball365]

sounds like a tippmann. What advantages are there to use WD-40?

[master_alexander]

i had a friend lube his gun up with rainex... it was halarious!

and it was a cocker

[p8ntball365]

isnt that for cars?

[68magOwner]

its for car winshields, to repel rain

anyway, from my personal experience- my viking, have done NOTHING but drop oil in the asa and have had zero problems, ever

[personman]

sounds like a tippmann. What advantages are there to use WD-40?

WD-40 eats orings and you should never use it in your paintball gun. Ever.

I'd have to say a tippmann or a classic mag falls under the toughest catagory.

[p8ntball365]

dont tell me this i think you need to tell punkats friend

[matmc89]

lol...ill post the team eleven cocker durability test vid soon. We ran over an old pf cocker with a car, dropped metal rods on it from 20 feet, lit it on fire, hit it with bricks..ect.

VIkings are very durable aswell.

[p8ntball365]

awesome!^^ post hurry!

[spectre184]

VM-68, or when i bought mine it was called PMI III. Built like an M1 Abrahams tank!

[Dryden]

No marker durability thread is complete without the miata pics!!!

[p8ntball365]

hummm, is that real?

[Fathom]

It wouldn't be the gun i would be worried about.

It would be wether my welds are strong enough

[magman007]

toughest electro? has to be the old angel lcd. you could beat the hell out of em, submerse em, fill em with sand, and keep going...

[Scott Hudnall]

toughest gun in the world was the VM68.

I knew several guys who went from the original angels to the angel LCD's, only to have their LCD boards go fritzy a month later.