Carbon bought an Alias. preliminary review.

[Steelrat]

In regards to paintball in the winter, dont paint companies adjust their shell formulation specifically for the season? So as to be less brittle, during the colder months.

I think you have to buy paint thats made for winter. I'm not sure that they change the formulation on all paints during the winter.

[Eatem Alive]

timmys are light but after lugging around that e-mag for so long, the alias must feel like a feather

[Carbon]

timmys are light but after lugging around that e-mag for so long, the alias must feel like a feather

big time. The geometry of my setup is nearly identical to my emag, so the the learning curve is virtually nonexistant.

[Carbon]

Ok now this is justplain dumb.

Now my eyes dont work.


Testing out some really brittle paint i manage to break a ball in the chamber. I cleaned it ever so gently when i got home. Now regardless of what eye-active mode i put the gun in it is capped at 12 bps. This basically means my gun wont shoot over 12 bps on normal mode. Anyway i'm just seething now. I just ordered a set of new eyes and an adjustable ramcap.

anyway i certainly hope its the eyes and not the board.

I guess this is where you get to laugh at me....

[punkncat]

I am somewhat suprized that you would place this 'review' up. You may as well have said 'review of timmy'. The reason they put the old manual in there is because other than milling and whatever software they have currently loaded the newer timmys are all essentially the same and have been for years. It amazes me that people still desire their markers they way they do.

.....IMHO nothing more that really expensive pneumatic Spyders.

AGD needs to discover this marketing scheme. Remill the Emag and call it the "all new" model every year.I mean hey, Kingman (Bob Longs inspiration) does......

[quik]

I guess this is where you get to laugh at me....

K

Hahahahahahahahaha.

[Flow_Tech]

Ok now this is justplain dumb.

Now my eyes dont work.


Testing out some really brittle paint i manage to break a ball in the chamber. I cleaned it ever so gently when i got home. Now regardless of what eye-active mode i put the gun in it is capped at 12 bps. This basically means my gun wont shoot over 12 bps on normal mode. Anyway i'm just seething now. I just ordered a set of new eyes and an adjustable ramcap.

anyway i certainly hope its the eyes and not the board.

I guess this is where you get to laugh at me....

did you take the frame off or anything?..make sure NONE of your wires are pinched.make sure its in forced mode and make sure the ram cap is adjusted correctly.

[68magOwner]

eyes out of alighnment? try wedging a small slip of paper in there with the eye to keep it straight *hard to explain without pics

[Steelrat]

Ok now this is justplain dumb.

Now my eyes dont work.


Testing out some really brittle paint i manage to break a ball in the chamber. I cleaned it ever so gently when i got home. Now regardless of what eye-active mode i put the gun in it is capped at 12 bps. This basically means my gun wont shoot over 12 bps on normal mode. Anyway i'm just seething now. I just ordered a set of new eyes and an adjustable ramcap.

anyway i certainly hope its the eyes and not the board.

I guess this is where you get to laugh at me....

Unfortunately, low build quality is one of the downsides of the intimidator-series guns. As I mentioned, my ND was fraught with low-quality construction. Everytime I consider a bob long gun, I just think back to those days.

Or, just think of Mighty Mikes lasoya. I played with that thing one day, and it rocked hard. Unfortunately, that was the first time in like 6 days of play he had got it to work right, even with repeated trips to Delta paintball.

Hopefully, its an easy fix.

[Load SM5]

I doubt your eyes are bad. Take the eye covers off turn the gun on with the bolt out of the way and hold the eyes tight with your fingers. See if the noid clicks or not. If not, then they're just getting bumped out of alignment with the covers on. Try putting a paper or electical tape shim between the eyes and the eye cover to hold the eye alignment.
If you're still having the issue then check the wiring like Flow suggested and make sure nothing is pinched. Worse case scenario I'd call BLAST. They have excellent customer service. You may have gotten a new set for free.

[Carbon]

Ok the eye prob was not actually a problem. It was just me trying to be a know it all. The gun works just fine.

To add, i just installed a Hybrid adjustable ramcap (timmystore.com), it cut down the blowback a good amount. The balls are no longer jumping up out of the feed neck. Although this was really never a problem, i suppose now, it wont ever be.

anyway im just fiending for the weekend. Hopefully the fields will be open new years day/eve. I need to shoot someone. Its driving me nuts.

[hobbesTZ]

By design the Timmy isn't the smoothest marker on the block, but I think certain other features set it apart from the rest of the flock. You can split the trigger frame in half very easily with the frame still on the marker. The trigger is held in by a screw so you don't need to hammer away at a pin. The wiring is good, I've screwed around with it a lot and it never failed me. The gun comes apart very easily. The regulator splits right in half and the LP comes right off the marker by hand. The bolt just slides right out the back and so does the ram after taking off the ram cap. There aren't really any problem orings and if one does happen to go bad replacement parts are extremely plentiful. Speaking of parts it's not just orings that are available. There is a rediculous amount of parts for the gun, and a lot of them are pretty cheap. You can get boards with all the features you could ever want for $40+. There are a number of rams, bolts, LPRs, trigger frames, front blocks, ram caps, and feednecks. The gun works great stock, all it really needs is a ram cap which are also very easy to find and are cheap new or used. Solenoids are around $60 if a replacement is needed. Much cheaper than a Shocker/Nerve 'noid, and also easier to aquire. I also hear BLasts customer service is pretty good, but I can't think of any situation why you'd need to send it out, it's really easy to work on and information is also available all over the place.

Anyway, all those are features high end guns should have. The ability to easily pull every piece apart when you need to, plenty of parts all easy to get, and stuff like that. The Timmy has all of it and if you can't get past the negative hype from people that haven't actually owned one or just dismissed it as junk because they never took care of it then you're really missing out.

[Carbon]

The Timmy has all of it and if you can't get past the negative hype from people that haven't actually owned one or just dismissed it as junk because they never took care of it then you're really missing out.

true. Sometimes the anti-hype is as bad as the hype.

[Eatem Alive]

i have owned an alias and a dm5...i still have the dm5. it shoots consistantly great all year round. the alias didn't handle paint to well in the colder weather, and yes, i tried various types of paint. the dm's are my preference. i did like the alias a lot, but like i said, only in warm weather.

[Carbon]

yeah, i was actually looking around for a lighter grease that swells orings a bit. Just a precaution for the cold. Granted anything you use other than dow 55 voids the waranty, but hey what am i gonna do?

And actually the DM line of guns was the 3rd option i was going for. I was thinking of getting a DM6, but opted out for a more budget concious approach.