New Timmy

[Imus]

Ok, after much tribulation with my parents I'm finally getting a Timmy. Anyway, this is my first electro and I'm fairly new to paintball (about 6 months). I plan on running my Timmy off C02 for a lil' while, since I haven't found anyone in our town that fills nitro. Plus I need to work up a little more dough for a tank. I have a remote hose and a Bob Long expansion chamber for the CO2 setup. Will this be enough to do the job??

Also, are there any comments or suggestions about setting up my new gun once it comes in or upgrades that I should be looking at? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Imus

[elTwitcho]

Get a regulator that will handle CO2, Timmies dont like input pressures higher than 550, and the gun is so much easier to set up after you do the LP mod, which requires an inline regulator. Also, regs are great at keeping liquid CO2 out of your gun, and liquid CO2 is your enemy. Gun should work fine, but o-rings will go alot quicker, so be sure to keep an eye on them

[PBSouLjAh]

ur 6 months into paintball.....u sure u wanna go electro? if i were you...i'd start out a lil cheap and build up and learn...i mena....if you already know a lot about paintball, have already been paintballin often, and if you really decide that you want an electro....go for it. im just saying..thats usually not the case...and a lot of people get these nice 1000$ guns and end up selling it cuz they are too complicated or cause too much trouble.

[Imus]

Good point PBsoujah, yeah I thought about that for a while, but I've been around paintball a lot longer than 6 months, just never played regularly 'till now. Got a job and got money now. Thanks for the input.

[Imus]

Oh yeah El Twitcho, can you reccomend a good reg for it???

[elTwitcho]

Well, if you're using CO2, the palmer stabilizer is probably your best bet, and if you're running nitro, I personally use the vigilante, which is fairly inexpensive, but it works great and one of the better regs IMO. Another good reg is the Gladiator from macDev, though they're a bit harder to find. The Vigilante is made by air america btw, and just about every proshop that carries regs has one, slap on a Low Pressure Spring, and you can do the LP mod, which is super easy, gives the gun no kick at all, and makes the gun alot easier to set up

[Jordan]

right on twitcho

I'll have to agree with PB...... cause I've been playin paintball for bout 2-3 years and just now am moving up to an electro. Actually not for a couple more months but still if u r gonna get an electro I would clean it and take it apart every day to make sure that u can strip it in just a couple of minutes on the field. Cause every time I upgraded my spyder it became harder and harder to stripp. So for the past few months i make sure i can fix it if any thing breaks. such as (change LP chamber,clean bolt for ball chops,O-ring busts,etc)for instance the first month i played with my spyder i busted 3 o-rings at the same sec. I'm just saying learn your electro very well when u get it.

[elTwitcho]

Well, it's a stacked tube design, so think of it this way.

Main body is very similar to a Spyders, the way the air acts on the parts is very different, but the parts are pretty much the same. The complicated part is the solenoid, well ignore that. never ever touch the solenoid, there's no reason too, and unless you know what you're doing, you can do irreperairable damage. Next parts of the gun, regulators. Super easy stuff, a piston, which looks very similar to a hammer on a Spyder (sorta... use your imagination) and a pin valve. Pin valves are easy to maintain, just unscrew one nut and the pin pops right out and you can get to the o-rings. That's your gun, pretty simple actually, and if you can understand a Spyder, it's easy to explain how a timmy works, just like you can with almost all stacked tube markers