Discontinued Tippmann Marker Pics

[Villhime98c]

I would greatly apprciate if you could post some "old school" tippmann gun pics up, like the Factory F/A, 68carbine, pro-lite etc.

[F355DUDE]

That would be interesting. I have always wondered what the factory FA was.

[Villhime98c]

Yeah I've heard about the factory F/A, but I've never seen a pic of it. I heard it was a semi/full auto gun.

[SpYdEr_RyDeR]

Whats that one tippy that was old-school and was fully auto, it looks kinda like a pro-carbine.

[Villhime98c]

Spyder Ryder, I think the gun you are talking about is the factory F/A. I don't know what it looks like, but I know the F/A was full auto. I am dying to see a pic of it.

[Chad51]

Yup I wanna see this sucker to!

[Villhime98c]

ok I went to the tippmann website and looked at the parts diagram for the FA. Spyder Ryder is right, it looks like a pro-carbine. But I want to see it put together!!!! Please if you have any pics of it please post!

[lvlatt]

i have one. they are really nice guns. they are an old design, so it took much time until i fixed all its downfalls. it shoots pretty nice now. once i get back to school, i'll post some F/A pics up for you guys. it may looke like a procarbine, but the internals ar that of a prolite.

[Frosty]

pro-lite

[Frosty]

68carbine
Enjoy :) I couldn't find the Factory F/A........

[SpYdEr_RyDeR]

That kinda looks like the one I was talking about, when I saw it at this guys store I was like "hey look its a pro-carbine" he was like "no thats not a procarbine its a 68" I was like, dude dont read the bore size, thats not the name, and now I understand why he said that, bcause its a 68-carbine, I heard they are cool but are very high maintenence. Also how did tippy make em fully auto without electronics????

[KAsplat]

here are my setups for my custom 98

[SpYdEr_RyDeR]

Sorry dude but this isnt the pic thread, we were looking for pics of discontinued guns, not custom 98s, even though they do look good. I kinda wanna see like the first guns tippmann has ever made, I saw some BE guns from like 1987 and they looked freaky.

[C4pyro]

Well I use to have an old prolight only it wasn't black, it was silver and the foregrip was customised. I wish I had a pic of it but it is gone now. And the F/A you are all talking about was built off of the prolite not the carbine. And spyder I think you are taking about the 68 carbine. The Pro-carbine was built off of the 68 carbine and the prolite. They basically took the best of each and then put them together.

[SpYdEr_RyDeR]

But how did tippmann make it full auto? Its hard to understand how they could make it full auto without electronics.

[C4pyro]

It had something to do with the loader. There was a rather large mechanism that basically fit where the elbow for the loader to sit in and it had some sort of spring mechanism. For some reason I am remebering that you turned a little crank on the bottom to pirme it and then when you pulled the triiger it fired in strings kinda like a direct feed on the side of the marker into the breach of the marker. I have seen and held the F/A but it was inoperable at the time so no shooting.

[lvlatt]

no no..its 2 hydro rams basically delay the bolt....the SHock sears

[wrangler]

The balls were sticking in the feed rotor. In order to supply balls fast enough for Full Auto fire, the Tippmann FA uses a spring wound mechanical feeder rather than the usual gravity feed. (The so called power feeds just make the balls take a right angle turn before dropping into the chamber. Useful, but hardly a power feed.) u have to reduce the friction between the balls and the feeder parts. The mechanical feeder makes for a positive feed with no blowback problem, but if the balls don't slide easily, they jam up the works.by the way this is from http://www.funsupply.com/tippmanfa.html
and hear is the feeder

[wrangler]

hears what yall are looking for, the factory f/a

[wrangler]

this is a smg-60.....and a little about it.....Early Model Tippmann SMG-60. Note the external gas line. The first semi/full auto paintball gun. Fired .60 caliber paintballs that were held in 5 round plastic stripper clips. The box tube magazine on the side held 3 stripper clips. There was an optional extended magazine that held 4 stripper clips. The .60 caliber balls didn't have the range of the .68's and bounced a lot. I've been told that these babies were deadly on densely foliaged fields. I image so. At short range, against pump action guns they probably would have been a real threat. .60 caliber paint is no longer produced so the SMG-60 can be reguarded as little more than a curiosity now.

[Kamotz]

If you look at the diagram you'll notice a few parts that make up the shock. As most of you know, a blow back will fire full auto if the sear doesn't catch, but it will cycle so fast the balls won't feed. What the shock does is slow down and delay the hammer, so it fires at an acceptable speed so the balls will feed, and the gun is safe.

[SpYdEr_RyDeR]

My dad just told me about the M-16s, and how they use almost the same technology. I think thats pretty ool how tippmann made it work like that, but I'm sure if it broke its harder to fix than any Custom 98, I wonder how many BPS it got?

[KAsplat]

as fast as you can pull the trigger.....

or if your laser get the response trigger

[Villhime98c]

I'm writing this to place this thread at the top, my friend made another thread just like this (I have no idea why, he knew about it) So keep placing your pics!

[lvlatt]

well tippman did make scale guns and gun parts....

[wwhooper]

SMG-60 can now be used once more!!!! Last time I was at an army surpluss store, I saw 60 caliber paintballs for blowguns!!!!

[SpYdEr_RyDeR]

KAsplat, I was talking about the fully auto tippmanns not like the c98 or m98, I already know about that, I was talking about if you hold down the trigger how many bps it would get with the full auto.

[specter542]

ive heard of around 11-13 BPS
-sPecTer

[OneArmedScissor]

i almost bought a F/A a couple of years ago.... kinda glad i didn't
they had some problems with them.

[lvlatt]

way over 13.....i am thinking 20-25....good luck feeding that fast (plus your hopper would be out in 7 seconds)

[SpYdEr_RyDeR]

well as long as you hit everyone its alright if you empty the hopper, lol, not like anyone is going to hit anything with a gun like that anyways

[tonysk83]

i have tons of pics that im going to post

here is a factory F/a

[tonysk83]

another

[tonysk83]

one more fa

[tonysk83]

another

[tonysk83]

one more

[paintballnsc112]

back from the dead muhahaha:P these old tippys are pretty cool

[tonysk83]

damn! Those were some of my firsts posts ever!:eek:

[E r y k]

om goodness.... the f/a feeder is being used on the a-5 !!! thats soo cool

eryk

[llSmithll]

my proshop has one of those clipfed tippmanns on the wall, hard to believe its a tippy

[3Fingered Jack]

Originally posted by E r y k
om goodness.... the f/a feeder is being used on the a-5 !!! thats soo cool

eryk

Yeah, if I remember right, the F/A feeder was wound up, instead of being electronic like on the A5.

[llSmithll]

Originally posted by 3Fingered Jack


Yeah, if I remember right, the F/A feeder was wound up, instead of being electronic like on the A5.


i will totaly ignore that statement if you pay me 5 dollars

[E r y k]

how about 1.50... thats al i got

[tonysk83]

Originally posted by 3Fingered Jack


Yeah, if I remember right, the F/A feeder was wound up, instead of being electronic like on the A5.

*shoots himself with a gun, but still manages to type" IT IS NOT RUN WITH ELECTRONICS!!!! It is run with a pnuematic ram.

[3Fingered Jack]

Well thank you for correcting me.

But you still get the point that the FA was wound up, while the A5 is not. That's what I was getting at there.