Paintball

[Drum]

While I was doing some pre-season prep in the vault, I decided to do my semi-monthly oil&gas procedure on my precious Palmer brass. All was beautiful and peachy keen until I came to the last, lowliest little Hurc, who gurgled and squeaked and then began to leak loudly from the general area of the asa. I dumped a bunch more oil in (my usual trick) and she just leaked all the more loudly. She was keeping enough to cycle, but the CO2 tank was getting cold from the venting. Hmmmm....

Well, having just doctored on a Painter who was happily waiting for her loctite to set and since I had all the "tools" for a lower tube assault out anyway, rolling my eyes, I thought "what the heck."

I filled the tub with warm water and took the Hurc down for a dunk to see if I could ascertain the exact location of the leak. Once the bubbling chaos of a swimming paintball gun settled down, I could see that air was streaming steady from between the asa and the lower tube. While it was underwater, I cycled the gun once...

and the leak stopped completely!

Gone!

Though pleased, I can only imagine what the trouble might have been. Debris in the gun ( did not see anything expelled into the tube) or just some O rings in need of a warm wet fluffing, I do not know.

Whatever the forensics, it was the easiest leak hunt I was ever on.



GBGP

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[netsurferdude2]

I spent a good part of the day tearing down and rebuilding my squall, changing the air line on the nasty hurc and whipping up a CA setup for the squall.

The squallicane, squall and nasty all got a nice warm bath in the sink.

Always remember to take the spring from your spring-feed tube out before the bath. I made that mistake a few years ago.

So just shooting your gun under water helped it?

I remember I did that for my blazer before and it saved it. Must be the swelling.


EDIT: Sorry I meant to say squall. I wouldnt want a CA adapter for the squallicane.

[Drum]

Boy, putting a CA on that "Squallicane" really sort of puts an exclamation point on the end of my usual sentiment about guns of that ilk; A solution to a problem that does not exist.

[Latoolman]

You drowned it !!!!!!!!!!!!! What did it ever do too you..... was this your special CP signature series stubby stock Hurc

interesting fix.... have you put paint through it since?

[Drum]

Yes, just now in fact.
That is one HELLA fast gun!

It might be my fastest in a wood stock.

Gotta do something about that wicked tight curve in the trigger itself (it almost hurts cause you want to shoot it as fast as it wants to be shot) and also something about a shoulder stock, but that is one mean little motorskooter.

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[Yellow5]

So Drum, when you toss all that brass and wood in the water, which one wins? Does it weigh the same as a duck?

[Drum]

Sinks like a stone...

Some of these stocks seem like the would sink even if they weren't attached to 8 pounds of brass, etc.

I have never once seen two Sheridan stocks that were even a similar, much less the same wood.

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[Yellow5]

Glad to hear, now we don't have to BURN HER!!!!