Paintball Marker repair shop near CaroWinds/Fort Mill area

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Paintball Marker repair shop near CaroWinds/Fort Mill area

Posted: 6/14/2011 6:52:09 AM EDT

New to paintball and I see that Paintball ParaDyes just open down the street but they don't have repair guy yet. Anyone know where I can three Tipmans that is leaking air repair?

Posted: 6/14/2011 9:49:12 AM EDT

[#1]

paintball central

http://www.pballcentral.com/stores/#charlottestore

Posted: 6/14/2011 10:30:01 AM EDT

[#2]

thx snapcraklepop, call them tomorrow since they're closed today.

Posted: 6/15/2011 9:09:58 AM EDT

[#3]

Well PBC suck, they have listed as open at 12pm and on their voicemail but store actually open at 2pm. Waste of time and gas.

Posted: 6/15/2011 10:26:13 AM EDT

[#4]

Where's it leaking air from?

Tippmann's are stupid simple to work on, and if you can take the shell apart you can probably fix whats wrong with it.

http://www.pbnation.com/forumdisplay.php?f=136

Not many leaks on that gun that cant be fixed with a liberal amount of teflon tape...trust me.

Posted: 6/15/2011 12:12:59 PM EDT

[#5]

I watched a guy who played for Tippmann Effect take his gun apart in the middle of a point at the Northeast Open in 2005 and reattach the operating rod on top of the bolt. We had to play them that afternoon, and honest to God that scared me more than anything- if one of our Protos broke during a point, we were screwed- but I'm pretty sure they could have had the Tippmann trailer run over their gun in the middle of a point and still be fine.

We beat their tails, but the point is a monkey with a jackhammer can fix one of them. Look at youtube for videos to fix whatever you need. If you do go to PBC, tell Brian to go break another crowbar or something.

Posted: 6/15/2011 12:26:58 PM EDT

[#6]

I've check everything when i took it apart and didn't see anything (but heck what i do i know..haha). I've replaced the o ring on the tank. i don't know where it's leaking from. i'm going to PBC this sunday again for someone bday and want to get it fix by then. only thing left like you say is replacing the teflon tape but got tired of messing with it. i guess i'll have to rent again if not.

I might have to run out to Dick's and refill the tank and stop by home depot. Someone explain why they don't repair at the field instead. can't imagine you need any big machine or anything.

Posted: 6/16/2011 8:32:59 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

I've check everything when i took it apart and didn't see anything (but heck what i do i know..haha). I've replaced the o ring on the tank. i don't know where it's leaking from. i'm going to PBC this sunday again for someone bday and want to get it fix by then. only thing left like you say is replacing the teflon tape but got tired of messing with it. i guess i'll have to rent again if not.

I might have to run out to Dick's and refill the tank and stop by home depot. Someone explain why they don't repair at the field instead. can't imagine you need any big machine or anything.

Mostly about labor, most fields don't make that much and having to support someone solely sitting around and troubleshooting/teching guns all day is more cost prohibitive than anything else.

Even though usually most field hands (refs, vending, marker checkout) are supported by sponsored teams or employees of the shop that sponsors the field, techs usually get paid for their time.

Seriously man, if you can spare about an hour and do some research you can learn to fix your guns, then you never have to worry about it again. I started with a Tippmann in '98, and fixed every gun I had after that (Cockers, impulse, shockers, angels, timmys, matrixs', dms/pms, etc...) and went on to be a certified tech from a few companies.

If you can get enough air to find and diagnose the leak, it should be no big thing. But to each their own.

Posted: 6/16/2011 11:55:34 AM EDT

[#8]

I think spend like 2.5 hours last night looking at the three guns and only found leak on one. I took down to Palmetto Paintball in Rock Hill and the lady (forgot her name, Freddy or Fred i think) fixed all three. She replace the black plastic tube (power tube?) on one, valve stem on other and Sear on third. She cleaned, oiled and put in teflon tape on all three for me. Seriously I wouldn't have figured out the valve stem and Sear was having issue. She taught me what to look for and what the part name. Nice Lady and I recommend her for service. They have lower price too compare to other places for fees.

I'm happy now and can't wait to try the RT this Sunday.

Posted: 6/16/2011 11:59:03 AM EDT

[#9]

If you need any help with the Tippmann, just PM me, I've been toying with them for years. Well, I kinda quit, but still

Posted: 6/17/2011 5:56:12 AM EDT

[#10]

Cowboy- who did you play for back then?

Posted: 6/17/2011 8:50:36 AM EDT

[#11]

i played with DC back when Kenny started it up but i got old and it got to expensive to play full time

Posted: 6/17/2011 11:10:25 AM EDT

[#12]

Ah hell yeah. I probably played you a few times- I played with Virus back in 03/04, addiction in 04, and then Gridlock from the end of 04-07.

Posted: 6/17/2011 7:17:15 PM EDT

[#13]

With Justice out of Pevs, 10 man NPPL seems like such a long time ago

Posted: 6/18/2011 4:44:30 PM EDT

[#14]

Damn, thats a WHILE back. I rarely meet anybody that even know what 10man was nowadays haha. I practiced against mayhem, gridlock and trauma back in the 10 man days but never played a tournament with any of them. A couple of the Virus teams used to put together 10 man squads to play them back when PBC used to have one field up in Greensboro. If you played with Justice I may have played against you back then at some point too, I think Justice came down to PBC to play trauma and Grid a few times back then and we used to mix in with them.

Posted: 6/18/2011 5:06:21 PM EDT

[#15]

I umm... I played for XSV!

I just want attention

Posted: 6/20/2011 8:00:43 AM EDT

[#16]

What years did you play for XSV?

Posted: 6/20/2011 4:05:46 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
What years did you play for XSV?

Lol, I didn't. I think I mighta seen Rich Telford at a Wal-Mart once, though!

Posted: 6/21/2011 12:26:54 PM EDT

[#18]

Hahaha. Better Telford than the Troll- he was a mean and nasty sumb ch, always angry about something.

But yeah, Inebriated- did you play for anybody around here? (not asking if you played inebriated anywhere around here, because I did that plenty of times.)

Posted: 6/21/2011 4:37:14 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Hahaha. Better Telford than the Troll- he was a mean and nasty sumb ch, always angry about something.

But yeah, Inebriated- did you play for anybody around here? (not asking if you played inebriated anywhere around here, because I did that plenty of times.)

Lol, really? That sucks, he's a hell of a player. Telford was nice as stuff when I met him.

And no, I never really played very much. I did through out high school, then bought an Ego 6 a year ago because I've always loved 'em, and started playing every weekend, but once college started, and between firearms, golf, and guitar, I started losing the money to feed it in uncapped semi. I miss it.

Posted: 6/21/2011 8:27:44 PM EDT

[#20]

Ah cool I gotcha.

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