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Originally Posted by ILLusion
The Raven barrels are not .03. They are .01. It's a hardened steel, along the lines of their Palsonite series that I believe is now discontinued. Apparently, the coating used on these is not as smooth as their original stainless steel barrels, but are harder wearing.
As a further note on the discussion of this issue of bore differences, even PDI has marketed the .05 barrels as having greater accuracy than the .01 barrels, whereas .01 would achieve greater power over the .05.
The .08 barrels did not have as high accuracy nor power as either the .01 or .05 in either performance characteristic.
I'm sure the PDI chart is out there somewhere... I'm sure I saw it online before, but I do have a PDI catalogue from '06 sitting in front of me that specifically details these differences.
How in the world are you ripping all these seals? I've never seen it happen before.
I have the Guarder rubbers here as well... haven't had a chance to try them yet, but when I do, I'll be sure to compare Guarder vs 9Ball vs TM
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Ah, UNCo must've tagged them wrong. I had a feeling that they were 6.01 barrels (the picture had 6.01 on the barrels) but I gambled to trust UNCo to have their inventory tagged right
For the ripped stock rubbers; before the game they were fine, after the game they were ripped?
I think its probably due to my lack of maintainence of the rubbers themselves. All the rubber that ripped are from mags that came from a friend of mine and I dunno whether he maintains the rubber seals or not by oiling them once in a while. They looked fine to me before the game (no cracking or anything). The rubbers all ripped from the side thats closest to the bullet valve. The damage looks as if something pulled or pushed the back side of the rubber too much causing it to rip parallel to the direction of the hammer strike.
Another issue could be a loose BBU. If the BBU is too loose, the nozzle will have a tendency to point downards since the BBU is only being held from the back via the firing pin screw and due to gravity. the loading arm on the BBU may have been pressed against the rubber and causing it to shear.