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Originally Posted by russc

But it would be unneccessary due to the Gnob.

you lost me there, though the Gnob has been mentioned before.

[russc]

The Gnob serves the same purpose as the CCI detent rings, except you don't have to size it to the paintball caliber. I can't see any point in wedgiting a barrel for a Ghost that doesn't need it.

[casper]

just a few mods

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Originally Posted by haoussa

The Gnob serves the same purpose as the CCI detent rings, except you don't have to size it to the paintball caliber. I can't see any point in writing a barrel for a Ghost that doesn't need it.

I understand how the Gnob should help with double feeds, but how will the ball keep from rolling out of the barrel once chambered?
Lapco currently provides three barrels. Micro shot being the tightest bore available, but I don't think that it's available gor the GG. But is it substantial enough against roll outs when current field paint sizes are so small?
Unfortunately, I'm still faithless with Lapco, and feel that support for the GG may remain non existant to slow at best. That is... The question!

[russc]

It sits past the ball once it's chambered, keeping it from rolling out. Kind of like the Galactic Z Mag, but without intending to cause backspin.

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Originally Posted by haoussa

It sits past the ball once it's chambered, keeping it from rolling out. Kind of like the Galactic Z Mag, but without intending to cause backspin.

That sounds good, though my experience with silicon gnubbins has taught me that they hardly last no more then just a couple of hundred rounds or so... Can anyone who's been privileged enough to have some experience with this, please add to just how they feel about the Gnob? Or did Russc just do so?

[stevedavidson]

Couple of things:

as an original ghost owner (who is still looking for replacement parts for internals - valve tube, cup seal, bolt and lt wt hammer) I can tell you that I spent many, many, many hours tweaking Ghosts and that the way to get the best performance out of one in terms of consistent velocity AND numerous shots from a 12-gram is to precisely balance the valve spring with the main spring.

I don't know how springs are being shipped these days, but basically (old skool) if you can use a red and a red or a yellow and a yellow, you're close to that balance.

You want to have the main spring be just strong enough to overcome the valve spring just enough to get your desired velocity. You want to use as little bolt adjustment as possible when doing this.

A couple of other 'tricks'; if the pump arm screw hole still goes all the way through the bolt, use a little non-permanent loc-tite on the threads and make sure its in all the way (LAPCO used to ship some stuff called vibratite which was perfect for this job); you can get as much as a 15-20 fps drop if that screw is loose.

You should also forget about any valve tube smaller than a 6 - if you can find an old nelson 00, get it. The bigger the throat on the tube, the better off you are.

The trick with the sliding trigger (although most of you seem to be playing stock so this is basically moot) is to adjust it so that the sear trips when the forward edge of the bolt o-ring seals the barrel - and just the forward edge. You can get up to some hellacious auto-trigger speeds that way.

If anyone has some extra internals, let me know...

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Will Lapco ever ell spare parts for the new Ghost

[DarkStar]

Originally Posted by stevedavidson

Couple of things:

as an original ghost owner (who is still looking for replacement parts for internals - valve tube, cup seal, bolt and lt wt hammer)

If anyone has some extra internals, let me know...

Steve, You can buy Powertubes from AirSoldier:http://www.airsoldier.com:8080/cgi-b...Code=OLDSCHOOL

Bacci has the rest of the internals available: Bacci's 06 Sale, Updated 10-25-06 with more parts

-MR