I used my newly polished marker over the last weekend. My air CO2 usage was way down and FPS was up. Never broke a ball and the gun never had a problem. I haven't opened it up yet to see what it looks like inside but so far I highly recommend it.

Hello everyone...I tarted another nwb thread looking for hep and a few of you told me about this. I did it today took 1 hour to polish and clean both plates. 4 freakin hours later i put my gun together. lol it was a great time let me tell ya. I could not get the damn washer and o ring to stop popping out ...thats when i reaized the whole tombstone washer oring thing i have been reading about. Well i took it outside, had some air left over, and tried it out. did not notice anything other than smoother recoil. I lube the crapola out of my gun with wd-40 and wiped most of it off...i lubed all the o-rings too. After 10 shots the bal just fell out of my barrell so i guess i was close to out of air...Hope that i am good to go this weekend when i play. Ill post my weekend after i play and let you guys know how the gun preformed.

well i hope you lubed it with paintball oil after you cleaned it with WD40

WD40 wont work correctly for lubrication afaik

Yes after i lube with wd-40 i wash the sides with soap/water, then lube internals with tippmann lube

great topic, i found it extremely usefull.

Did mine lastnight. Looks good smooth as a babys butt. I used fine steel wool then poilished it with a little mothers car polish. No issues with the gun at all, works well. As for fps I'm going just shoot someone and have them tell me if it hurts more now

i polished my buddys a5 the other and the velocity went up 50 fps. never would have thought it would have made that big of a difference.

I wanted to do mine today, but after I completely disassembled my A5 something caught my eye:






As you can see the lower inside of my right receiver half is slightly damaged on the front side where the front bolt moves. Has anybody had this before? It looks like a fabricating error of some sort, I'll take it back to the shop I bought it from and have them replace it. The left half is polished like a mirror

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I wouldn't worry about that. Unless you're getting some horrible air efficiency (unlikely), i'd just write it off.

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i had marks like that on my receivers, though not as bad.
i just polished over them, it worked out good.

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