da_mon15

hey.......i got a spyder imagine select

when i was shooting my gun at higher speeds(on semi).......the gun would uncock.........the battery is full and i have 1500psi in my tank..........iunno what the matter is!????

Thanx for the help

__________________
Paintball Assinator

MedicDVG

On spyders and cocking problems... look to the o-rings. It is the blow back pressure that re-cocks the marker, and it is the o-rings that hold that pressure around the face of the striker to push it back. If it does not re-cock, that can mean that air is getting around the striker and not fully pushing it back. Look for nicks or dry spots on the o-rings and if found, replace them. Otherwise, if you oil them up really good, this should correct the problem.

The other thing that may be happening is regulator shootdown. If you have been shooting a fast semi-auto for a prolonged time, you may get in a situation where the regulator can not recharge fast enough to maintian the pressure in your marker. Hence, it will not recock. The fix for this is to shoot shorter bursts until the regulator is fully broken in. Otherwise, you may want to invest in a better regulator if its stock or a cheaper model.

one further place to look is the valve and cup seal. If its a stock valve, you may be starving it when shooting fast. Not likely, but it can happen. Either that or your cup seal is letting air back out into the barrel and not occluding the valve face like it should. Inspect it for chips, scratches, flat spots, and wear and replace it if neccessary.

Those are my thoughts... anyone care to add?

__________________

da_mon15

Thanx alot man......im gonna do a oil job on all o rings and look for any problems

__________________
Paintball Assinator

LookOverThere

Or you broke paint, Take your bolt out look at it, if theres paint, You probly chopped and it got jammed there.. Or MedicDVG is right.

da_mon15

i did what MedicDVG said.........oiled all orings and cleaned everything.........ill c how it works on the feild cause i got no more paint

ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS?

__________________
Paintball Assinator

Javaman

It's better to test with paintballs. The gun is "slightly" less likely to recock when dry firing since there's no back pressure from the PB. You can almost parallel air with electricity. It always tries to take the path of least resistance. With no paintball in the breach causing less resistance a larger ratio of the barrel vs striker flow will go out the barrel. It SHOULD recock either way, but when firing massive amounts of air the reduction of pressure (because of lower internal temps) might cause it to happen more often with no BPs.

__________________
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

NYY

sounds like a valve problem or not enough pressure getting to your gun. What gun do you have, what upgrades do you have? do you have a reg?