Impulse/aka.THe400$Blender

[Impulse4me]

I cant stop chopping! I was putting in one ball at a time and it couldnt even fire! I was trying to shoot fast and globs of paint would just fall out in clumps. It was pretty cool but it pissed me off. It was like a shotgun every time i fired. Tell me what could be wrong. I dont think its chopping but just breaking because i made sure the ball was completely in and it still broke after i cleaned it.

[wolverine]

Have you 100% cleaned it?? I mean like remove the bolt, detends, barrel, everything.

Also what is your velocity set at? Have you chrono'd lately to verify you are not shooting 450fps and just blowing the balls apart.

What barrel & paint are you using. Big paint in a small bore barrel is not a good thing.

[Forsaken_Snake]

Do you have your bolt in right. do you have you ball detents in? What pressure ae you shooting? The same stuff wolverine said paint/barrel match? I bet it is a little thing thats wrong.

[SpUnKy-BoLtOn]

high pressure/high dwell makes for a pretty good paint blending combo also... i run mine high pressure (180-190 psi) and low dwell (3-6 clicks) and i get around 280...

[PhishPhactor]

with every impule problem, there is a Simple Impulse solution.


Great guns but you learn as you go.

[JDB]

Yeah thats definately not chopping. Its just a barrel break. It seems the word chopping is being thrown around very loosely these days, and any time a paintball breaks within 1 inch of a persons gun that it was intended to be shot out of it is referred to as chopping. Anyway....I dont know much about Impulses yet (ok, I dont know ANYTHING about them yet) but it could just be a very horrible paint to barrel match. Were you shooting in very cold weather? That could be a problem as well.

[Impulse4me]

yea it was pretty cold. I used 2 different barrels but it still broke. I set the pressure to 130 and it shot like 5 times fine then started breaking. It might be the dwell and thanks for ur input.

[poolshark5226]

Also what hopper are you using? And even though you used 2 barrels, both may have been to small for your paint...

[Cocker Killer23]

mine chops alot when my gun is cold but when my gun is warm it shoots like a dream.

[Assass!n]

Try adjusting your velocity by putting your dwell up more and your pressure down...i was told doing that puts let strain on the ball...just a suggestion. but try it, it may work.

[mipaint]

Before you screw around a bunch of settings-- What about the paint????

It sounds to me like you have some junk paint

Here is a way to "test" your paint.

You want a hard serface-- a tile floor works real nice

Take about 10 balls from you supply

Hold a ball above your head-- so it is about 6 ft from the floor

drop the ball then catch it after it bounces.

DO NOT let it bounce more than once.

Now repete the same procedure

keep track of the times you drop the ball before it breaks.

Once the ball breaks, do it again with another ball

If you get less than 3 bounces (on advrage) you have jusnk paint-- don't do anything to the gun!

If you get up around 5-8 bounces-- you should NOT be having problems-- we need to look at the gun

IF one breaks on the first drop the next takes 10 drops-- Again you have JUNK paint-- get some fresh paint before you worry about the gun.

FOM

[spedchild1]

lol, dont do that if you have evil. I think the best paintballs break mad quick. evil breaks at the smallest tap, but wont break in your gun. Insuring the fact that evil wont bounce off even the most padded surface. Paint like blaze on the otherhand, will last up to 8 drops, but then again, you could shoot a tree with that **** and it could possibly bounce (any of you remember the hellfire at AC!) so this "test" is sorta invalid.

[kr8er]

Originally posted by mipaint
Before you screw around a bunch of settings-- What about the paint????

It sounds to me like you have some junk paint

Here is a way to "test" your paint.

You want a hard serface-- a tile floor works real nice

Take about 10 balls from you supply

Hold a ball above your head-- so it is about 6 ft from the floor

drop the ball then catch it after it bounces.

DO NOT let it bounce more than once.

Now repete the same procedure

keep track of the times you drop the ball before it breaks.

Once the ball breaks, do it again with another ball

If you get less than 3 bounces (on advrage) you have jusnk paint-- don't do anything to the gun!

If you get up around 5-8 bounces-- you should NOT be having problems-- we need to look at the gun

IF one breaks on the first drop the next takes 10 drops-- Again you have JUNK paint-- get some fresh paint before you worry about the gun.

FOM

well, the best paint ive ever shot is rps all stars, they are hard but brittle, they always bust on the ground but never in the gun, so this test wouldnt exactly be the most accurate way to figure things out,

[galihad]

yah i have always been told the way test for good paint is to drop it from wiast high onto concrete and see if it breaks if it does it will not bouce of your target. thats a good thing.

[spedchild1]

exactly!

[thebluenu]

Originally posted by kr8er


well, the best paint ive ever shot is rps all stars, they are hard but brittle, they always bust on the ground but never in the gun, so this test wouldnt exactly be the most accurate way to figure things out,

i dont have any problems with anything rps..... its really feels pretty "hard", and for some reason, always breaks on my targets.... :eyes:

[XxLaSeRxX]

RPS is the best stuff Ive seen so far. If you do a 6 foot drop with 10 random balls, 7 will break. Yet when you shoot it through a barrel its clean. I have 0-1 breaks with RPS paint. I recommend it.