Anybody know what they are talking about?

[customspyderamg]

I don't like the people who say they play paintball but don't know their gun at all and don't like talking about paintball because of it. Alot of people just buy parts and slap them on and say their gun is good. I enjoy taking my gun apart and tinkering with it trying to find new was of making it better. It feels like there are a raising number of people like this. Which makes me feel like a minority. I consider these people noobs.

[senghing27]

um thanks....

[volcom0729]

mhm.kthx bye.

[smartguy41]

:freak:

[Sheps]

I don't like the people who say they play paintball but don't know their gun at all and don't like talking about paintball because of it. Alot of people just buy parts and slap them on and say their gun is good. I enjoy taking my gun apart and tinkering with it trying to find new was of making it better. It feels like there are a raising number of people like this. Which makes me feel like a minority. I consider these people noobs.
I understand what your saying, but don't see the point.

[smartguy41]

I understand what your saying, but don't see the point.

I understand what he's saying, too. But isn't the off topic thread where things like this can be discussed?

[Jaster]

Maybe the point was that he was trying to start a conversation....


I agree. Personally I blame parents that buys their kids top shelf guns they know nothing about. Most of them just want to slap anything on them just to say they have an upgraded whatever marker. 99% of the time these types don't even know what the upgrade does. :rolleyes:

Nothing wrong with being a tinkerer, but at least know what your looking at before you rip it apart.

On the flip side, I'd like to thank all who don't listen to that and break their guns trying to fix them and end up sending them to peeps like me to fix. We, gun techs that is, very much enjoy taking your money! :tup: ;)

[Crede777]

I find them amusing and talk to them as much as possible.

[PbAllWiZZ]

I used to like to tinker, then broke to many things, so I stopped and just pray my gun works come sunday.

[jdolla]

I gave up on tinkering after I effed up my Piranha, my TES, two different mechanical cockers, and a few 98 Customs.

[Imp_Man]

i like talking to those people because it's funny to listen to what they say about their gun. however, i also like takin my gun apart and messin' with it a little and now and then.

[soccerjacks12]

I tinker when I have to make repairs, otherwise I always think I break something and hope my gun works when I go to play:(

[The Hero]

I tinker a lot of guns. Everytime a gun is broken for good I take a look at it and see what can be done. If nothing can be done, it goes into the lake behind my house, otherwise, I put the gun back together and get it into atleast some kind of a working condition. maybe 1BPS.

[soccerjacks12]

I tinker a lot of guns. Everytime a gun is broken for good I take a look at it and see what can be done. If nothing can be done, it goes into the lake behind my house, otherwise, I put the gun back together and get it into atleast some kind of a working condition. maybe 1BPS.

:laugh:...almost:dodgy:

[Omega_Pirate]

I tinker a lot of guns. Everytime a gun is broken for good I take a look at it and see what can be done. If nothing can be done, it goes into the lake behind my house, otherwise, I put the gun back together and get it into atleast some kind of a working condition. maybe 1BPS.

Yeah thats not working. Working means it does what its supposed to. Heres what you do with a marker that has lost all functionality. Find the parts and fix it. 99% of the time you can just buy another part, slap it on and BAM it works (nearly) good-as-new, or better. And the 1% of the time, you don't throw it in the lake. You strip all the parts you can and keep the rest in a shelf or something. Evenually you will have enough parts to not need to buy them. Markers normally don't just "stop" working, they can almost always be fixed, they are kind of like a car, you can bust something take it to a shop, and buy a new part to fix it. But if you "total" your marker (throw it in a lake for example) you have to buy a new one.
To bad there isn't "paintball gun" insurance.

[Psycho_warden]

On the flip side, I'd like to thank all who don't listen to that and break their guns trying to fix them and end up sending them to peeps like me to fix. We, gun techs that is, very much enjoy taking your money! :tup: ;)


Or there are the ones that dont fully understand their gun, so therefore send it to a gun tech to get it fixed. I did this with my X-mag, with any other gun, I would take it apart and see what makes it tick, as well as fix the problem, but with my $800, I think I would rather have a profesional do it untill I more fully understand my marker enough to work on it by myself.

[Jaster]

There is nothing wrong with not knowing what you're doing and being able to admit it. I don't fix my own car or the electrical box in my house. I pay techs to do that. I'm just talking about the ones who don't know what they're doing but say and think they do. ;)

[mokalman]

Oh em gee, jassy.

[Sheps]

I fixed a valve that was binding in a Viewloader and you don't see me bragging...

...Oh wait, yes you do... hmmm



I actually want to get a (part-time?) job teching markers, I have always liked tinkering with stuff (I have a bin full of dissected stuff under my bed :bigsmile: ) and would love to deprive people who know little of their markers of their money, just to prove that old adage right.