Broken balls!

young__wun1515 · 07-03-2008, 10:53 PM

Well my i was given a box of 2000 paintballs. Sadly it was called voodoo and made by zap. Not wanting to offend the gift giver, i accepted it and opened it. Sadly in every bag i could see the yellow fill over every ball. Is there an easy way for me to clean them and should i rush or can i wait and do them tmr?

pintbuster · 07-03-2008, 10:58 PM

The sooner the better! Get a nice big rag and start rolling them around on it. Try to pick out the broken ball first, and the hard part is done.

young__wun1515 · 07-03-2008, 11:23 PM

:P one bag i found 5 broken balls and well most of em' are warped lol. I guess i have a box of paintballs to use at the chrono.

StevanJay · 07-03-2008, 11:57 PM

well what i was told is take a towel and take your paintballs and lye them all onto it then pick out the broken ones then turn the bag inside out. after that roll the tall over the balls to get all the oil off. then put them in the bag but dont use this setof balls until the end of the day the next time you play.

grande · 07-04-2008, 07:38 AM

Back in the day us europeans had the short stick on paint. Too many cases were broken when we got them, yet we had nothing else to play a tournament with, we made the best of the situation.

The best way of cleaning them is getting paper towels and cleaning a handfull at a time, when the piece of paper gets dirty or torn replace it with a new one. It takes a while to clean but at the end you wont even notice youre shooting a bag with a broken ball in it.

As others pointed out you should always try to find the broken balls first, so they wont spread any more paint on previously clean balls, paintballs.

ta2maki · 07-12-2008, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by young__wun1515

:P one bag i found 5 broken balls and well most of em' are warped lol. I guess i have a box of paintballs to use at the chrono.

That's bad. You should be chronoing with the paint you are going to be playing with. The slightly different diameters can cause huge changes in velocity. This is one of the reasons feilds have 'feild paint only rules' and why you shouldn't give out paint to other players. I have personal experience where a gun that was shooting 220-230fps with DXS gold jumped to 325-330fps with Nelsplat. Use the bad paint to tech guns or target practice.

hmudd13 · 07-13-2008, 02:06 AM

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Originally Posted by ta2maki

That's bad. You should be chronoing with the paint you are going to be playing with. The slightly different diameters can cause huge changes in velocity. This is one of the reasons feilds have 'feild paint only rules' and why you shouldn't give out paint to other players. I have personal experience where a gun that was shooting 220-230fps with DXS gold jumped to 325-330fps with Nelsplat. Use the bad paint to tech guns or target practice.

That's good advice, right there!

young__wun1515 · 07-13-2008, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by ta2maki

That's bad. You should be chronoing with the paint you are going to be playing with. The slightly different diameters can cause huge changes in velocity. This is one of the reasons feilds have 'feild paint only rules' and why you shouldn't give out paint to other players. I have personal experience where a gun that was shooting 220-230fps with DXS gold jumped to 325-330fps with Nelsplat. Use the bad paint to tech guns or target practice.

Oh never thought about it that way, Thanks a lot.

TheDude · 07-13-2008, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by StevanJay

well what i was told is take a towel and take your paintballs and lye them all onto it then pick out the broken ones then turn the bag inside out. after that roll the tall over the balls to get all the oil off. then put them in the bag but dont use this setof balls until the end of the day the next time you play.

Ditto. I also like to mist a little windex over the lot of them and use mutiple towels.

07-03-2008, 10:53 PM	#1 (permalink)
young__wun1515 Rec Poster Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 38	Broken balls! Well my i was given a box of 2000 paintballs. Sadly it was called voodoo and made by zap. Not wanting to offend the gift giver, i accepted it and opened it. Sadly in every bag i could see the yellow fill over every ball. Is there an easy way for me to clean them and should i rush or can i wait and do them tmr?

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grande Seasoned Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Finland Posts: 598	Back in the day us europeans had the short stick on paint. Too many cases were broken when we got them, yet we had nothing else to play a tournament with, we made the best of the situation. The best way of cleaning them is getting paper towels and cleaning a handfull at a time, when the piece of paper gets dirty or torn replace it with a new one. It takes a while to clean but at the end you wont even notice youre shooting a bag with a broken ball in it. As others pointed out you should always try to find the broken balls first, so they wont spread any more paint on previously clean balls, paintballs. __________________ "The best mode on a smarts parts gun is off."

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07-03-2008, 10:58 PM	#2 (permalink)
pintbuster MCB Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Chester County PA Posts: 274	The sooner the better! Get a nice big rag and start rolling them around on it. Try to pick out the broken ball first, and the hard part is done.

07-03-2008, 11:23 PM	#3 (permalink)
young__wun1515 Rec Poster Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 38	:P one bag i found 5 broken balls and well most of em' are warped lol. I guess i have a box of paintballs to use at the chrono.

07-03-2008, 11:57 PM	#4 (permalink)
StevanJay Newbie Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Virginia Posts: 16	well what i was told is take a towel and take your paintballs and lye them all onto it then pick out the broken ones then turn the bag inside out. after that roll the tall over the balls to get all the oil off. then put them in the bag but dont use this setof balls until the end of the day the next time you play.