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  • bryceeden
    www.vernalpaintball.com
    • Dec 2002
    • 1076

    #1

    Preping for rain

    What do you do to prep your markers(specifically electros) to play in the rain? I've heard of people doing some creative stuff.
  • d4m4don3
    does anyone read my posts?
    • Sep 2005
    • 1228

    #2
    Originally posted by bryceeden
    What do you do to prep your markers(specifically electros) to play in the rain? I've heard of people doing some creative stuff.
    Really?

    I wrap a small plastic bag on my revvy and break out the palmers unported brass barrel and go to town with my automag.

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    • Chronobreak
      Rec Poster
      • Mar 2003
      • 5055

      #3
      yeah cover all gun ports/swap speed feed on the hopper.

      i also put duct tape or something on top of the airholes on my goggles. the rain hitting them and splashing in your eyes in a downpoor can be irritating.

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      • buzzboy
        Emo grass cuts inself
        • Mar 2005
        • 1322

        #4
        Duct tape and plasic bag your hopper. Then just ghetto something onto your gripframe. That or one one my friends just put a shirt on his gun when there was only a light sprinkle of rain. And, like was said above, you may want to tape you're barrel so rain doesn't get in the porting.

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        • turbo chicken
          waiting for MY pump kit...
          • Mar 2006
          • 568

          #5
          i used to have a neoprene cover that I made when i had an electro spyder ...

          now I don't worry about those things ...

          I empty my electronics out of my hopper revy so I don't have to worry about it ... you can always seal the seams with silicone ... and put a good coverage of tape over the battery door
          ...

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          • WalkingTarget
            Registered User
            • Mar 2007
            • 107

            #6
            unported barrel on my cocker or mag and a VL200 with the seams sealed in silicone, bit of paper and ductape over the hole in the powerfeed on the mag (paper is there to prevent the balls from sticking to the tape...)

            then laugh at all the kids with Ions and rails and egos who have their marker wraped in plastic... they paid for expensive (and useless) milling only to have to wrap it all in plastic bags.


            mechanical FTW

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            • punkncat
              One foot less
              • Feb 2003
              • 5841

              #7
              I am really hoping that I will not have to play in the rain in a tourney......beyond that my momma taught me to come inside when its raining.

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              • mutigerfan04
                Registered User
                • Jul 2005
                • 168

                #8
                I just play and don't worry about it. Knock on wood I have been lucky. I have yet to have it effect any of my gear.

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                • geekwarrior
                  MIA
                  • Oct 2005
                  • 2581

                  #9
                  live in southern cal.

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                  • mag_lover05
                    AEQUITAS
                    • Jul 2005
                    • 970

                    #10
                    i use a classic mag with rain flap (home made out of duck tape, also works for dirt), a VL200, and some sort of SS barrel with tape over the porting


                    20 year old technology is still the best.

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                    • d4m4don3
                      does anyone read my posts?
                      • Sep 2005
                      • 1228

                      #11
                      Anyone just try playing with an umbrella?

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                      • Teal
                        I Am Powerless
                        • Feb 2007
                        • 6

                        #12
                        I wrap my stuff up in stylish violet Seran-Wrap! Ah, the lives that have been saved because of plastic.

                        And, thanks for the suggestion. I think I'll make an umbrella hat.

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                        • skife
                          Unregistered User
                          • Feb 2003
                          • 2769

                          #13
                          is it strange that i just do nothing?




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                          • lather
                            Registered User
                            • Jul 2004
                            • 591

                            #14
                            Originally posted by skife
                            is it strange that i just do nothing?
                            I dont think its strange at all, However I do think its strange that the myth of electros ceasing to work in the rain is still a widely held belief. I dont do a thing to my electros either, and Hawaii has some real heavy tropical downpours. I've never had any issues with electronic guns in the rain--ever.
                            "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin

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                            • skife
                              Unregistered User
                              • Feb 2003
                              • 2769

                              #15
                              Originally posted by lather
                              I dont think its strange at all, However I do think its strange that the myth of electros ceasing to work in the rain is still a widely held belief. I dont do a thing to my electros either, and Hawaii has some real heavy tropical downpours. I've never had any issues with electronic guns in the rain--ever.


                              yeah,

                              my revvy has never let me down, from downpours to -5F tempratures..... how many eggs or halo's have done that?




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