my buddie's ripping A-5

[mag88888]

I thought A-5's were almost strictly for woodsball until I saw my friend's A-5. i havent shot many real nice electros but his A-5 felt incredible. he has a JCS trigger w/ e-grip, soon to also have WAS board, palmer's stabilizer, lapco bigshot. soon to also have HPA. and he's working on a project as of right now... he didnt like how his cyclone hogged air so he's gutting his cyclone and somehow pounding an egg2 z-boarded moto and stuff with halo b eyes into the shell of his cyclone. he says its gonna work, he has a ll the parts but hes waiting on the eyes. honestly im impressed with what hes doing to his A-5. the trigger felt great, so easy to walk...I also think his "new" cyclone is cool too. what do you guys think of this?

[68magOwner]

i think that at the end of the day, his tippy is still far to long/heavy/unweildy

[mag88888]

we'll see...

[sol tank]

pics/vids or shens.

[bleachit]

i think that at the end of the day, his tippy is still far to long/heavy/unweildy

that all depends on what barrel and other junk you have on it...


sounds like a sweet project.. definately need to post pics... especially when the new cyclone stuff is done.

[mag88888]

i think my friend is posting his pics on tippmann since he's on that forum. i'll check up with him when hes getting pics and stuff like that. ill let you guys know whats going on with this.

[peewee]

Come on chop chop , where's our pictures???? . I messed around with an egrip A5 setup with the JCS trigger etc. It shot great. Made me miss my old A5 a little.

[VTpaintballer]

Ok, i'm the kid with the a5... mag888888 friend
i will have pics soon, i just need to get the eyes right and thats a few more drills into my main body, which i hate doing but i soon will have it up and running, atleats i hope.
And since i'm very bored i'll tell you how i go about doing this:

Heres a brief explanation....:

First i hated how the cyclone only went 18 bps max, when i could make it go up to 25 with a WAS board, so i wanted to just keep it mech, but the cyclone has way to much friction and reseting itself slowed it down too... and co2 pushed a spring in the cyclone, making even more friction, so i decided to gut it.

Now i have bought the egg2 motor with the new z-board, clocking at about 23-25 bps from what i hear... and seems correct. I then ordered eyes from odyssey becasue the z-board eyes were connected to the board, making it impossible, so i had to buy those. Now i would explain how i'm putting it together, but you all can just wait for the pics and vid.

Now this all didn't work like class A perfection, the cyclone at 18 bps, is spinning those blades 3.5 times a second, not makeing it very safe for those paintballs, the paintballs would drop down into the cyclone then hit the blades and bounce right back up becasue it couldn't drop fast enough into the sprockets. Now to fix this problem i have to make the blades go up into the hopper so the paintballs can drop into the cyclone from all sides and its not verticle anymore. This fixes that problem.

But now there is still friction with just the blades... So i have shave down the upper blades so the hopper can fit on and i have to put teflon spray all over the inner cyclone making it all nice and smooth.

So now i wish all my problems were fixed, but things that MAY not make it work:

1: the blades will be too heavy for the motor slowing it down about 5 bps
2. the eyes, if they are not put in right or i ruined the board by putting them on wrong, anything like that

The chances i think of this working at a 24 bps speed is a 75%.
Now this whole project has cost me a lot of time and around 150$ not to to nice but it will be insane if it works, i'll have a vid and pics by the end of september i still have to install a couple more items then make it pretty with some paint, sand paper, and bondo. Excuse me for any spelling mistakes...

thanks

-John

[MoneyShot]

it sounds pretty cool to me

[warbeak2099]

i think that at the end of the day, his tippy is still far to long/heavy/unweildy

Agreed. That's why I sold my maxed out e-tippy. It shot great, but it was way too long and unwieldy. Too big for my taste.

[spyder luver]

i sold my tippman 98c cuz it was to heavy and to hard to shoot fast and i chopped like madd but it was a nice gun i had a select few upgrades *it worked verry well for woodsball*


sounds like a sweet project though if u do it all right i think that would be awsome

[bleachit]

Agreed. That's why I sold my maxed out e-tippy. It shot great, but it was way too long and unwieldy. Too big for my taste.

what size barrel did you have on your tippy?

min 98 is shorter than my spyder with a 14" on it.. but I use the stock on the tippy.

[onedude36]

cant you just take off the cyclone feed? I know you can put one on a 98, so would it work the other way arround too? use a 98 feed elbow thing?

Or even better, mod it for centerfeed and a feedneck.

[warbeak2099]

I had an 11" Aradus. It was still a long and unwieldy gun. Spyders are long too but not as long. I just don't like guns with the foregrip being spaced out from the trigger gaurd. I like everything nice and tight.

[Bear_Claw]

Eh i love my tippy and its STILL my prefered marke for woods and still seen some speed ball use over the mag. And my tippys a Pro/Carbine witch is quiet noticably longer than the 98c i used to have a LONG time ago.

Guess ya just gotta be use to hadeling larger objects .

I actually tossing around the idea of scraping my mag project infavor of getting a rt/or egriped 98Pro with cyclone just for something to tinker with.