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Mini-Compressor for Paintball Coming Soon Finally, some good news in paintball. Tom Kaye, the legendary paintball designer behind AGD and the Automag has returned to paintball with, in my opinion, the most exciting paintball announcement in the last few years. He has announced plans to build a miniature paintball air compressor that will run off electricity and a cheap shop compressor (which only will run occasionally) and will be able to fill compressed air tanks to 4500psi. The concept is simple - create a low-power, low-cost pump that will fill tanks to high pressures over a long period of time. Current guesses are that a 68/45 could be filled in about 4 hours. While the slow fill time will mean you can't refill a tank between games, you will be able to fill a tank overnight without paying several thousand dollars as the expected retail price is $300-$400.For those of you who use compressed air, you know how its reliability, consistency and ease of use make it the preferred (and sometimes required) air for competitive paintball. You also know how difficult it is to keep your tanks full when you're not at a professional field. This new compressor solves that problem by allowing you to play (or tinker) where you like and fill your tanks at home. With the expected cost of $0.05 an hour to operate, filling a tank will now cost twenty cents - less than the gas to drive to a paintball field or store.I will definitely be in line to get one of these when they are released. I'm a big fan of Tom's work at AGD (and still own some of his products) and I'm an even bigger fan of the idea of filling my compressed air tanks without going to a scuba store or paintball field. The mini-compressor is still several months from production, but you can view a video of a prototype to see what it's all about.Mini-Compressor for Paintball Coming Soon originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Sunday, February 21st, 2010 at 22:41:13.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |
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Stop the Vandals A man was recently cited for defacing petroglyphs with a paintball gun in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Not only was this a stupid thing to do for himself and his legal future, it's a stupid thing for the sport of paintball. I've mentioned it more than once, and I'll probably mention it again, but it makes me mad that the majority of news coverage of the sport of paintball involves vandalism or other criminal activity. I'm sure that thousands of people successfully played paintball on the very day that this idiot shot up the petroglyphs, but they won't get a single mention by the press, only the one guy who caused problems.Paintball is a great sport that almost anyone can enjoy, but countless people will never try it because of the negative actions of a few people. Just think, if all someone ever heard about the sport is that people use the gear to vandalize property or shoot unsuspecting passersby, why would that person even want to learn about the positive aspects of the game? The simple truth is that for all the good that thousands of paintball players can do to positively depict the sport, more bad can be done in just a few seconds by one person who doesn't have any common sense. Now you and I and everyone else who cares about paintball's image have that much more work to do to clear up more misrepresentations of the sport. Lucky us.Stop the Vandals originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 at 15:35:19.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |