RE: Tippman 98 custom marker (and its younger brother, the A5) [TANKS] [TANKS] [TANKS] [TANKS] [TANKS]

["Kevin" <ka1201-at-houston.rr.com>]

I hate to resurrect this seeing as it's from 4 days ago but I've been away
from my email so I'm going to do it anyways.

A paintball is not a perfect machined piece of material.  You've touched
them, they are soft packets molded in a form.  .68 is a round about
measurement given to the size they are supposed to be.  Probably no
paintball will ever measure out to exactly this though.  I know here in the
humid air of Houston, Texas we can generally expect them to swell and
therefore be bigger than the stated .68.  I'm guessing in colder climates
their size might stay closer to this .68 standard.  Originally all barrels
for paintball where machined to .680 but manufacturers understanding that
paint to bore match was key for accuracy began making barrels with different
sized fronts and backs and some even with adjustable bores to account for
this.  Someone here quoted warpig.com on CO2 info so I'd like to add
http://www.ottersccustoms.com/ to the list of sites you should visit on all
things technical concerning paintball.  Read some of his articles here
http://www.ottersccustoms.com/range.html for info on the range and accuracy
topic.


-----Original Message-----
From: tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com [mailto:tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com] On
Behalf Of John Bruder
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 7:33 PM
To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
Cc: JOHN PITTELLI
Subject: Re: Tippman 98 custom marker (and its younger brother, the A5)
[TANKS] [TANKS] [TANKS] [TANKS] [TANKS]

If you take a ball and put it in the barrel, it should not just roll
through.  If it does, the barrel is too big for the ball.  If you put a ball
in the barrel and you can't blow it through, it it too big for the barrel.
You shoul dbe able to place a ball in the barrel and blow it through with
just a little blowing.  If you can do this, you have balls that fit the
diameter of the barrels for best accuracy.  Too lose, not as accurate, too
tight, more broken balls.

Balls are .68 diameter, but barrels range from .65 to .69.  If you use a
Flatline barrel, don't do the test because Flatlines are large and put
reverse spin on the ball.  Many Flatlines are picky about balls so you
should buy fresh balls of good quality.  Our Flatlines and Spider/CP/Razor
barrels all seem to like most any PB range balls or Walmart Game Face
Scortch balls.

Hope this helps,

JB


---- JOHN PITTELLI <jplily-at-yahoo.com> wrote: 

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--- John Bruder <hobbydad-at-adelphia.net> wrote:

>> 
> In paintball, matching the balls to the barrel is
> the #1 means to accuracy.  > 
> John B.
> 
> So , how do you match the balls to the barrel?

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