my friends get a 98 with a R/T and a flatline... He has to keep it down or it chops like a blender

i'm new here but after reading this site for over a month i just got an flatline for my e-grip as well. can't say yet that i've broken any balls...but come the 27th of Sept we'll see. gonna be shooting about 4k balls through it in one day.



Well it's way past Sept 27th but I did go, and I did put over 4000 balls through my Flatline. I had 3 breaks out of those 4xxx balls. This was with semi-auto(3balls) at 15 bps. it was around 65* and we were using cheap balls. it's a real good thing for me that my Flatline is just a twist off otherwise I would have walked off the field 3 times that day which would have made me a real unhappy camper.

My flatine r/t combo goes well with good paint.. (10 -12 bps) and CO2

Cheap paint... stay at home, its cheaper

Also remember to clean it out after each game, I take mine out of the shroud and boil it in hot water..

chopping and barrel breaking are two different critters with slightly different symptoms and causes BTW. a chop is when your bolt impinges on a round before it has droped into the chamber with the tippman 98c this is most likely to High rate of fire while relying on gravity feed -, that get hung up before they roll into the beach try a mechanical feed assist hopper, and check your paint for out of round or swollen balls. a barrel break is when firing stress on the ball causes the ball to self destruct in the barrel - both are bad news
generally a chop will leave a large amount of shell and paint in the breach - a barrel break generally does not... USUALLY this is a good indicator if your problem.

If it was the bolt chopping paint thats a hopper issue - you need mechanical feed assist when shooting with R/T rate of fire
but if it was barrel beaks with a flatline for the the 98 thats normal... - I had one with a flatline on it. it is imperative that you keep the BPS down with a 98 flatline. quick 3 round bursts work ok - but trying to empty your hopper as quick as possible is a BAD idea -even with top quality paint.

the A5 flatline is a different animal - since it's a good 2" or more shorter, you can blast as much paint through it as quick the cyclone will feed it
I have R/T on mine and when I sweet spot full auto it I can blast 30 balls out of it in about 2 seconds with never ever a break. (the only time I've ever had a break in the barrel was using some inexpensive field paint cause I couldn't find a case of marbs the day before it was bad enough that I put my LAPCO bigshot on there to finish out the day. the field paint worked fine in the bigshot at high rate of fire. - use marbs in a flatline and it'll make you HAPPY.. I've shot probably 100 cases of Marbalizer over the years I regularly played and IIRC - I've never had my A5 chew one up. (it's good stuff, but it's like shooting nickles at people. you learn to be a paint saver at $.05 a shot. so I figure you'll be keeping your rate of fire down quite a bit with the flatline on it) besides if you can't hit a dug in guy with 3 -5 balls what makes you think you can with 30? Confucious say: Accuracy by volume leads to light wallet.