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[Jordan]

Originally Posted by Moosepatrol

Just a question about the bolt in this mag. I saw a post W.T. had before and someone tried a home made version of a mod. He said they drilled several holes in the bolt I assume for more airflow. Anyways when I looked down the barrel the bolt has several holes (ten) in the end. Now I know there are different levels so any way to figure out what I have in this mag?

Sounds like you have an ANS venturi bolt. IIRC, W.T.'s post was an aborted attempt at the 10-hole mod (or whatever it's called), where holes are drilled in between the valve body and reg.

Jordan

[Moosepatrol]

Okay so tonight was the first time I have put some paint through my mag. Not good I am getting a shoot down effect. Single shots a second apart, no problem. As soon as I speed up the shots velocity is dropping. Now the tank I have is probably around an 1/8 th of a tank (co2) but I am not having this problem when I switch the tank to my cocker. Any ideas? Now this week I am going to go and have all my tanks filled but I am wondering if there could be a problem I should look into or maybe just a low tank.

[Robertsr]

Make sure that all your airlines are clear. Also, in a lot of older mags, there is a CO2 filter in the steel braid cable. It will look like a small bronze sponge, and it screws into one end of the cable. They were supposed to catch any small particulate matter that might get into your gun from dirty gas. What they really did was critically choke your airflow. If you have one of those, unscrew it and toss it into your gearbox to rot. You don't need it.

[Moosepatrol]

Robert I took all the lines off and no filter. So my question is what would cause a shoot-down effect on a mag? I am wondering about the expansion chamber that came with this mag. It is stamped mfg by Taso and on the bottom it says Benchmark Manufacturing Inc. Lot 102. Can anything go wrong with an expansion chamber to restrict airflow?

[Clearush]

There are usually some small ports inside of expansion chambers that can possibly become clogged with debris or just junk building up over time.

Also the size of your bottle along with temperature can make a differnce. A smaller bottle say a 10 oz will chill quicker causing shoot down where as a 20 or 24 oz bottle will not have that issue.

[Moosepatrol]

Okay so I used a 9 oz the first time I noticed this. Now I also have a 12 oz I could use. Now about the expansion chamber any ideas on a cleaning method for the internal or should I attempt a tear down?

[Clearush]

well if I could easily disassemble the expansion chamber to clean it that would be what I would do, but I know some of the older expansion chamber were never made to be disassembled.

I would think a 24-48 hour soak in a degresser bath with a good rinse and flush with some pressurised air blown through to dry the interior might be good. But I personaly have never need to do it.

You may also want to check the reg backs guts and clean and grease them to make sure everything is proper some else was have some issues and it ended up the spring pack came apart in his hand when he took the reg apart to clean it.

[Moosepatrol]

What particular type of grease is recommended for the mag?

[Nobody]

Mags are pressure guns. a classic mag, which you have, like the tank pressure above 600psi. if the tank is low, then the tank takes a little more to "boil off" the liquid, where as the cocker is probably around 400-500ps? don't know, its your gun, just a guess. so a fresh fill at least will help, and HPA cures all with a Mag. don't get me wrong, i ran my mag for years on a remote and 20oz. tank, its just a different world when put together with the almighty compressed air tank.

[Clearush]

Originally Posted by Moosepatrol

What particular type of grease is recommended for the mag?

air tool oil would work also, but non-petrolum lubricant is always good. It's probably better to use grease on the spring pack.