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vdubdriver
05-17-2006, 07:49 PM
I have a strange problem. I use co2 in my Tippmann 98 Custom and tonight its was about 50 degrees out. I went out side to fire a couple rounds with my new rva and shocktech bolt. I turned my velocity screw in all the way, fired about 10 normal, 30 walking and about 20 just plain again (playing with the rva for each). I have the the Tippmann X-Chamber but there was alot of white gas releasing. Now it's done it ever since I installed the X-Chamber. Tonight though, I shot so fast that my barrel actually froze. I couldn't remove the barrel and there was a small layer of ice over it.

Did I mess up the installation? or is this supposed to happen?
IronCorps
05-17-2006, 07:53 PM
Your xchamber might actually be hosting a staging area for the co2 to recondense into liquid before it enters the valve. So long as your velocity is still at safe speeds, don't worry about it, it wont hurt anything.

It could just be a break in period. Have a local paintball braniac take a look at it.:)
PyroNinja316
05-17-2006, 08:42 PM
Your xchamber might actually be hosting a staging area for the co2 to recondense into liquid before it enters the valve. So long as your velocity is still at safe speeds, don't worry about it, it wont hurt anything.

It could just be a break in period. Have a local paintball braniac take a look at it.:)

Hmmm...don't know about how that staging area would allow for recondensation at that temperature. The only reason it's liquid in the first place is because of the compression it's under. So unless the pressure in the xchamber is about the same as the pressure in the tank (at which point the xchamber would probably explode), it shouldn't be possible at 50 degrees.
IronCorps
05-18-2006, 02:58 AM
Well you might think that, but you can use this example to understand: with any standard paintgun, while hooked up to co2, point the barrel at the dirt, the liquid co2 is shooting into the line. take a shot, you'll see snow flakes. Liquid was in the valve obviously. Yeah, ironcorps, duh. Well my point is the temperature drops inside the gun mechanism once the co2 hits it, and pressures can and commonly will increase once liquid co2 gets in there and wants to reexpand into foam and gas.