Whats the problem?

[tehripz]

I recently went paintballing with my friends this last saturday. When I got to the field I found tha the first trigger pull of my a-5 was easy, but the second was very hard to pull, and the third almost impossible. I played anyways, giving the trigger time to rest for 5 seconds after every trigger pull.
I waited till I got home to inspect my gun. After feild stripping it, i found nothing wrong with my trigger or reponse trigger. After finding nothing wrong with the gun, I condluded that it was something with the RT Holding in the CO2 pressure, thus making the trigger pull hard until the CO2 leaked out.
I did really want to mess with the RT so i just lubed everything and decided to try one more time before taking it to get fixed. After reassembling it I tried it out in my garage. Now the cocking handle resets everytime I fire, not to mention being very hard to pull back and getting a very low velocity out of each shot(full tank of CO2).

Sorry for such a long story, but does anyone have any idea what went wrong? If not I guess I'll have to get it taken to a shop.

[Coenen]

Sounds like maybe your ball detent is in backwards or something.

Have you tried messing with the RT settings? You may be over pressurizing the piston.

[JesterTLS]

I was messing with my RT and had it doing that. Try adjusting it a little and that may be your problem.

[tehripz]

how do you adjust it?

[JesterTLS]

There is a screw on the air fitting that is just above the grip on the right side, where the brown air line goes to the RT. That tiney little screw on that fitting is how you adjust the RT. One way closes it off, and the other way allows more air in, so the RT can go faster.

Just try adjusting that first. Not saying that is deffinetly your problem, but it is a darn good suspect. And it doesnt cost any thing to check that before doing something else.

[Govinda_T]

It sounds to me like you turned the ROF all the way down. The manual says it is supposed to get harder and harder to pull until it is pretty much impossible if you do that. Turning the ROF up quite a few notches should do the trick. Below is a link to the online manual, in case you have lost yours:

http://www.tippmann.com/pdfs/manuals/A5_Marker_Line_Manual.pdf (http://www.tippmann.com/pdfs/manuals/A5_Marker_Line_Manual.pdf)

(HINT: What you are looking for is on page 12.)