Valva screws

[Lord Hobo]

The two screws on the right side of the marker, the valve screws are missing. Does this matter at all? I played a a bunch of games yesterday with them gone, and nothing. What do they do? Are they important?

[matrix_muck]

same thing happened to me, it doesn't affect the gun at all, the screws hold the power tube in place on the right receiver when you field strip the gun, if u ever unscrewed those things to take the power tube out then u need to put red loctite on the screws when u put it back in otherwise they fall out from the pressure. call tippmann up and say they came out on their own and they will send u new ones with some loctite for free.

[WM5k]

yeah they are important, if they are missing the powertube can slide around a little bit and sometimes the gun wont re-cock. I loctited mine in after one fell out on me.

[p8ntba11dude89]

ugh, those screws do not hold the power tube in place, it holds the valve in place inside of the powertube so it doesnt move around.

[WM5k]

thats what i meant, just took one apart yesterday...doh.