From: bjs@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Brian J. Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.paintball
Subject: Info on Level 7 AutoMag
Date: 30 Sep 92 00:05:39 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.

Well since there are people out there wondering if they should upgrade
their gun.  First timers that want a cheap starter gun and people with
lots of money to blow.  I thought I would throw my 2 cents in on the 
guns on the market.

I have owned a .68 Special and currentlly own a Level 7 AutoMag.  The AutoMag
has had some what of a shaky past which scares lots of people away from the
gun since people saw it in its early days and placed a black mark against
it and don't know how well the current version works.

Well from an enginnering stand point the gun is the best designed gun on the
market.  No holds barred.  It still could use a little improvment in 2 minor
areas which I will get to later.

The inner workings of the gun are broke down into 3 major parts.  The Pressure
Reulator, The On/Off Valve, and the Power Tube.  In level 7 guns The On/Off
Valve and the Power Tube are basily the same unit since they have be sealed
together.  

The Automag is the only gun that I know of (correct me if I am wrong) that has
a built-in regulator.  This controls the Pressure/Volume mixture of Gaseous CO2
in the gun.  This makes the gun special that it really can't go hot.  Given 
that the gun does vary aprox. 10 fps from shot to shot you will not go up
by 50fps like I used to with my .68 Special.   Since the gun only operates
on Gaseous CO2 it requires, and has a large pressure chamber which the 
regulator controls the amount of CO2 in the chamber.  This means it should
have either a anti-siphon tank (I would not recommend) or a liquid-control
valve tank (very nice) or some looping in the gas line to allow the Liquid
CO2 to boil off. (don't know about this)

The gun comes with A Budd Orr barrel (thick walled) and is very accurate, I
took somebody out from 100 feet this weekend.  The AutoMag doesn't break
balls very often I broke one so far, and that was after I poured water over
the gun without thinking and forgot the take the loader off.  Poured water over
it you ask?  Ya the really nice thing about the gun is it is made of 300 and
304 stainless steel, with the grip made from Aluminum.  No more hurry home
and spray the gun with WD-40 before it starts to rust.  It doesn't!  Rate of
fire is very fast they quote 7 balls a second without the power-feed, needless
to say I haven't tried timing/counting my shots, but if you really need to
lay down paint this is your gun. Trigger pull is very short, and easy, not
like firing a .68 Special.

Two minor changes I would make to the gun are, make the two bolts that hold
the gun together out of stainless steel, not the steel that they are.  And
the C/A adaptor needs work, it is just thrown onto the gun and often comes
loose this could be fixed quite easily as I told Air Gun Designs.

Well thats enough for now and I think I will run. I paid 380 for my AutoMag
and it was well worth the money.  Also if you get one order the Repair
Kit while your at it I haven't needed it, but the parts for it will not be
as common as the Tippman parts.

For more info let me know.,

Bjs


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