Just got my first brass marker and I could use advice

[Impactfour]

Well I got the frame drilled, primed and painted today. I'm kind of digging the gloss look over the dust black the frame original comes with, but we'll see when I can put it all back together.

I was also able to get the wedgits a bit more pounded in, 9/10 rounds of graffiti I brought with me stayed in place, so I think I will leave that as is for now.

On a side note, I measured the grip frame screws today and one is 3/8th", while the other is closer to 1/4". I'm probably going to go ahead and get a few of each size screw just to be safe.

[ChoSanJuan]

Haha, thanks! I got crazy with some 3d modeling/printing on it. What you are seeing is a mid-way point in my feedgate project. It's almost ready for primetime once I can get a way to elegantly stop rollback.

[BrickHaus]

I personally lightly grease the bolt o rings. And put a drop of oil on the face of a 12ie before a day of play.

The old sheridan manuals say to remove the hammer and wipe it clean after play to prevent rust.

[Impactfour]

Looks like tomorrow I'll have the chance to get a bit more work done. Hoping to drill the frame, prime and possibly paint it if time allows. In the meantime I've ordered a whole slew of polishing bits for my Dremel to finish up the body, as well as a fast changer, speed plug and a safety from PPS. I'm holding off playing with until the PPS parts arrive as I can barely grip the feed plug.

My newest questions should be simple enough. I noticed my two frame screws are different lengths, is that by design? And what type of lubricant do you guys recommend? I think the only paintball lube in my house is whatever came with my girls emek and that's more of a grease than anything..

[Brokeass_baller]

ChoSanJuan that is the craziest PGP I've ever seen in my life.

[ChoSanJuan]

1000% agree with the cocker frame tray. It's so choice!

[BrickHaus]

The barrel is titanium, thats a custom project by the great WALZ. He flame anodizes ( tortches) the titanium for varying color options. A greenleafs pistol is one of his many amazing projects.

I too was blessed with a WALZ pirate with a TI barrel. Its been my main shooter since it showed up at my house.

[Impactfour]

That looks so nice for a 3d print, and I absolutely love the colors on your barrel there, how did you achieve that?

Also I just noticed the trufuel in the background and got a good laugh out of that

[Impactfour]

I was looking at those battle grips the other day, they're tempting but we'll see if I feel the need, I've got relatively small hands with arthritic sausage fingers so finding the right grip is an experiment every time.

I know less than nothing about 3d printing, but there is a library near me that has one and says their expert can help, I've been debating printing a frame adapter, pump handle and a few other parts just for kicks, I'll have to find some free time to get in touch and see what their deal is. I'd imagine they may be skeptical of printing anything that looks like firearms parts though...

[BrickHaus]

Houge grips on the k frames are specific to k frames. You would need a pair if I sold ya my Krain frame as I got mine without grips.

Ill let you know if I let them go. I had planned on making a walzmas pgp with it and gifting them, but I'd sell them at cost if it works out that way.

As for grips, you need sheridan, or early wgp style grips with the single hole.

I see autocoxkerparts.com has a pair of pps battle grips for 40 bucks that would work, and Bacci seems to be fresh out of pmi grips.

Maybe the community can dial some print files in and we can print them out of tpu.

[Impactfour]

The house grips I see on many k frames look cozy as could be, does that style fit the stock frame as well, or are they not compatible?

BrickHaus please do let me know if you end up selling your rainmaker frame, I'd be very interested.

[A.Greenleaf]

Welp, BrickHaus beat me to the answers. The rubber grips from the pt pistols fit on Sheridans nicely.

[A.Greenleaf]

The Krain. Rainmaker would have to make another batch and I don’t know if that is in the cards. Worst case scenario, if you don’t like it with a k frame on it, someone here would buy it. Here is mine with the Krain on it.

[BrickHaus]

Rainmaker did the k frames, but I think his sears were batch made by a laser mill so he may not make more. I did buy one, and I should have 2x K frames from Dan coming, so I could potentially part with my 3d printed frame.

Otherwise try to find some rubber grips for the sheridan frame. Sheridan frames are a bit small for my hands. Rubber grips REALLY help that for me. I have a PMI grip on one of my brass shooters and its great. But they are getting harder to find.

[Impactfour]

BrickHaus was correct, it was the hammer lug causing the cocking issue.

I've been drooling over k-frames for year now, but I'm going to hold off until I can play with it for a bit and decide if I like it before investing that much (although I did see someone was 3d printing a cheaper option that I may try before investing if I can get my hands on one.)

For now I'm going drill an allen key hole, prime and paint the frame and wait for the pps parts.