Carter buzzard Issue.....

[Socalpumpballer]

Honestly you would have probably been fine. Nelson are peak garage gun technology. You can do just about any power tube mod with a hacksaw, a hand held drill and a file

[Walker]

I sold this to Boosh, and it will go out in the mail tomorrow. He has much more knowledge of the Carters, and I wouldn't want to mess it up....

The powertube I have in the gun definitely does not look like the ones he got from Carter!

[BOOSH]

Here are the power tubes Earon made for me about 2 1/2 years ago. For all I know these are phantom tubes, but they look just like my original tube that is somewhere around 30 years old.
Notice:
3 holes - not just 3 holes, but 3 holes drilled at an angle - we had to use a special drill bit and an indexer to get them like that - I broke more than a couple of those drill bits which were a fortune back then.
the power tube is also tapered and the cup seal comes right up to the holes. This is all to facilitate the ease of air flow into the tube with (in theory) as short of a dwell time as possible.
Earon did change things through the years, I'm sure. When ever I would see him we didn't really talk paintball. We usually talked about sports betting and regular life stuff so I never really kept up with the details of what he was doing in paintball.

[flyweightnate]

BOOSH had an interesting point with the face seal being so small compared to the valve nut. I saw some Phantoms with soft seals get them stuck in the nut; maybe a washer closer in size to the cup seal OD? At least before you go boring or drilling powertubes.

[Painthappy]

I know I've already said my peace, but you need to change out that power tube. Those inlet holes are just too small for how we know we play ball now-a-days. Change that, and you'll be good. You can change the springs, but that will effect your efficiency. If you just want it to work, we can do that. If you want it to be efficient, you'll have to switch out the valve tube.

[Ecapnation]

Worth mentioning... The later Carter's we're all over the place with specs and things didn't mix well.

[Walker]

I dropped a note to Dan.......

[Socalpumpballer]

Yours is a very specific era of Carter power tubes that are not standard nelson spec and had its own specific valve nut. was suppose to be the most efficient one he ever made allegedly. I would ask Bacci if he has anymore info on them. Even other examples I’ve seen have larger holes though

[Painthappy]

Even carter power tubes came in different sizes. I think I have some #3 ones here. The set up you have, hard valve spring and soft main spring needs a big holed #6 valve tube.

Or you need to soften your rear valve spring to keep it open longer.

[Walker]

Mine do not look like that at all.....

[Walker]

The inside diameter of mine is like a Lapco #2, the Phantom ones I have are the size of a Lapco #4.

[Walker]

Boosh - I still have the gun. I assumed it was a Carter tube, as it came in the gun and fit the opening in the valve seat. By closed in that one pic, I meant the powertube collar was closed (pressed) against the outer face of the valve seat which meant the valve was opening completely and was not being blocked by the cupseal/compressed spring hitting the back of the valve chamber stopping it short.

[Socalpumpballer]

[Socalpumpballer]

Here are some of my Carter Powertubes for comparison. The left one is a 3 hole, the broken center is 2 hole turned down and has ramped holes with flats. The right is 2 hole also turned down with flats

[Chuck E Ducky]

I wonder if you can fix the 2.0 phantom valve that way. I was going to try hogging out the valve body inside for more volume.