X chamber

[Melchior]

Hi,

I want to get an X chamber for my Spyder aggressor XT.
I was thinking 32 degrees 6 stage which is on this shop.

Since it is an aggressor, do I need to buy a low pressure bolt/chamber upgrade etc...
There is the thread at the bottom onto which the hose screws, would the x chamber screw directly into this?
Is there anything else i need to know?

Thanks

[Melchior]

Um, anyone know? maybe i should post under technical help.

[Tom]

Do you have an anti syphon tube p[roperly installed in yuor tank? If not, I'd do that before you get an expansion chamber.

[Melchior]

yes I do. since I have not much knowledge of fittings, adaptors etc... I dnt know what to buy.

[Tom]

Ok,

Describe exactly how your gun is set up at the moment - ie where all the fittings and hose go. A picture would be good!

[Melchior]

Ok,

I will post picture of the gun. It is an unmodified Aggressor XT (green) only with an anti-syphon tube.

The hose attatches at the red arrow.

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The blue arrow points to the silver half-sphere at the end of the bottom "tube" of the gun. I have drawn it on as the picture does not show it. This came already on the gun, and looking at the spyder website I think it is part of the gas chamber.

My friend has a spyder Xtra (blue, also pictured). His gun has a low-pressure chamber where my sphere is. It is shown with a red arrow, and also on a seperate picture.

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THE QUESTION: Will the X Chamber screw into the place where the old hose used to go (red arrow on green gun)?

Also, will I need to buy a low-pressure chamber (shown with a red arrow on blue gun) for the X Chamber to work properly?

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[Melchior]

MY GREEN AGGRESSOR

[Melchior]

FRIEND'S BLUE XTRA

[Melchior]

THE LOW-PRESSURE CHAMBER

[Tom]

Right then - the simple answer is that an X-chamber will not fit your marker. The X-chamber uses the same threads as a CO2 bottle does - your friend's marker has the big vertical ASA (ie he could take off his vertical reg/xchamber and screw in a CO2 bottle there. However, your marker has a small hole there, which is what your hose screws into.

http://www.fatbobspaintball.co.uk/acatalog/Expansion_Chambers__hoses_and_fittings.html

If you look at the asa adaptor on that page, you need the opposite - a male hose to female asa adaptor.

You're probably best off saving your money for a new marker - an anti-syphon tube will eliminate most liquid CO2 problems if it's properly fitted.

[Melchior]

OK, thanks for the help.

If you look at

http://www.kingman.com/section/accessories/expansion_bolts.html

You can see a vertical adapter with low pressure chamber, and a vertical adapter with low pressure outlet. If I bought one of these, would the X Chamber then fit? If so which one?

The main reason I want to get one is to increase the consistency of the gas. Im only shooting CO2 at the moment and with the basic setup its really inconsistent. Adding the extra stages and volume should make it more consistent, or am I wrong?

Are there any other ways of making the gas more consistent, apart from buy an air tank and reg, which I don't want to get yet?

Thanks again

[Tom]

I'm afraid I don't think you can use either - if you look at the vertical adaptors, they both fit into the same place your friend's marker has its low pressure chamber and vertical adaptor. On the picture of your marker, it looks like the whole bottom part is fixed - so you wouldnt be able to fit it I don't think.

[Tazz]

You can do it.
What you need to get is a frount bottle mount, don't bother with the low pressure chamber one, you would need to get an inline regulator to reap the benafits, PTFE tape & tools to suit.
Remove the hose at the body end, & then the connector. Then take off the domed end under the barrel, there is a spring behind this so get ready to catch!
Replace the domed end with the bottle mount (makeing sure the spring is in place), the x-chamber screws into the mount. The connector that was in the body screws into the inlet of the x-chamber & hose to that. PTFE the threads.
There will be a hole in the body where the hose fitted, if my memory is correct it is the same thread as an air fill nipple, or the like. Basiclly you need to bung it up so the gas is unable to escape.
Have had a look through Fat Bob's site and can't find the bottle mount you want. Give a few stores a call, they might have one in a bottem draw somewhere. I bought one a few years back from Pl_n_t, but they don't apper on the site now.
Best bet might be to find out who imports Spyders into the UK.

Cost it all up first, how much would a cheap/ used pre-set air system cost? Might be cheaper?
Hope this helps.

[Melchior]

hey thanks a lot.
Wats PTFE?

[Karizma]

If memory serves me correctly, PTFE is
PolyTetraChloroEthylene. Or more commonly known as thread tape.

[alan phoenix]

its polytetrafluroethylene ptfe.(white tape used to seal threads.)

polytetrachloroethylene.????, think thats semtex.:D

[Tazz]

Originally posted by alan phoenix


polytetrachloroethylene.????, think thats semtex.:D
If it is semtex, please warn me before you test fire it!

[Karizma]

Whoops!!!!!! My mistake. Finger trouble. Of course it's Fluro not chloro. Thanks for putting that one right A P. Geography never was one of my strong subjects.

Don't follow me, I'm lost too.

[alan phoenix]

Originally posted by Tazz
If it is semtex, please warn me before you test fire it!


they used to give me plastic explosives to play with as i couldn't be trusted with real ones.:D :D :D