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Dragoni

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So I decided to give a bit more of my opinions coz have nothing better to do at the time.

I still think that F-5 is one of the best markers available.
Sure angel is much lighter thing to handle, but what's the point if you aint strong enough to carry your marker to field, or any marker?

With F-5 there's no problems with chopping when it's timed correctly, and when built into light body, it doesn't even weight much more than angel. Speed is far beyond angels (yeah sure you can get bigger shotcount but what about when it starts chopping?) coz the e-eye keeps sure that there's ball in breech when the bolt closes.

I havent needed to do any timing with my gun (played over 13 months), even though it would be so easy that my 12 year old niece could do it. I do believe that this day will come and hand the gun over to my niece.
Maintenance? wipe off the paint and remember to oil at every tournament morning, and it ticks better than my swiss watch.

Besides, nothing more gets you more babes from the audience than than unbelievably hot "click,click" noise from eclipse cocker body, heard at the rate 14clickspersecond.
yeah, you'll spend more balls, but less will break in the barrel, and more on the target.

Though I'm not sure if e-eye mods are available for angel in US or in any other country than Finland, that would make angel almost as good as F-5 but angel will never have enough "balls" to compete with F-5, IMHO
 

Buddha 3

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If you like your cocker, good for you. but what's the deal with people slacking off angels? I never chopped a ball in mine......and I put plenty a case of paint through it (about 2000 shots per playing day). you seem to forget that the latest series of angels have this vacuum assist to load the balls........
 

Paco

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Dragoni

Hey, I have a few tech questions about my F-5, and you seem pretty smart on 'em.
I love mine and the thing does fly, but I've been having a few little problems lately. I've been chopping paint, like three balls out of the last case I put through it went kablowee in the gun. How does one go about fixing this since I can't seem to find help anywhere. The other thing is my velocity goes up and down at will, like 20fps or more. How consistent is your gun?
Not to discourage any of you guys looking at F-5's, they're great guns but I just need to tweak mine a little.
Thanks for any help I can get, jus thought I'd ask while I was here!
-lata

or shoot me an e-mail:
www.got_cookies@hotmail.com
 

Dragoni

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Well, if it's chopping, then i would believe that your e-eye is dirty, or isn't connected correctly.
You can check that using the troubleshoot (I assume you know how) option, the led on the board should light up if eye sees something. If eye is working fine then it might be timing problem.

Using the troubleshoot option pull the block back slowly and check at which point the led on circuit board lights up. Then check your bolt position, if it comes back enough for ball to drop in breech.
if not, you must move second D-C80 (connected to ram) back a little.

other possibilities are normal maintenance things. Enough oil, new batteries, etc..

Jumping velocity isn't a F-5 problem. You might have bad valve, lousy regulator, bad or wrong size paint...
I run my F-5 with armaggeddon and vigilante reg and keep velocity within 7fps (that is exactly what A/A promises with vigilante).

I know that people at the Sandridge act like *******s (customer service really sucks, except I got good service when I got mine, but it's a long story), but I'm sure that their e-mail service will help.

And for Buddha 3, I didnt mean to slack off angels. Sure I like cocker more, but I don't deny that angel wouldnt be good paintgun. And I would be probably using it without my F-5.
It's an opinion, nothing more...
Besides I rather like being sure that there's separate system to keep sure that it doesn't chop any.
 

Legacy

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I just got my new sandridge a little over a month ago. I'm running a nitro duck mini-reg 3 and normally get my velocity +/-3 fps with that setup and I don't need a secondary reg. I just learned a ton about them though reading this I didn't know the board had a trouble shoot mode in them. How do you work that?