Well, first off I'd like to say hi to everyone here again. I've been VERY busy during the summer, but still had some time to do quite a few nice water fights. I've in the meantime picked up myself a CPS 1000, CPS 1200, and and XP 150, and a MAX-D 3000 (which is a wonderful gun).
My 1000 is the best ever. I've really happy with it. Whenever I fight with my CPS 2000, I don't get a single drop of water of me, because no one can get within range. My 1000 still is powerful, but amazingly light, and doesn't have as long of range, so at least I have some competition.
Anyway, I got my 1200 because I was so happy with my 1000, and wanted another soaker that size to lend out to people. It was really nice at first. But there's a serious problem with it. The first thing I noticed was that when I pump up my 1200 completely, it's a bit hard to pull back the trigger at first and makes almost a popping sound, though its not really one.
Then, one time, I pumped up my 1200 completely, and went a bit hard on the check valve, and my trigger didn't have the power, I'm afraid, to pull back the valve. It was stuck. So then I posted on the forums here, and while I was posting, my brother managed to pry open the valve with a big screwdrver. I thought all my problems were over then. But the valve, whenever I pump it up comepletely, insists on getting ctuck. I don't know about you, but I always like to have my PC full of water. And I don't like opening up my 1200 every time I use it. I also don't want to have to crack the front plastic piece on my 1200 to fix the problem. But I want my 1200 to be useable by anyone, not just me. And I want it to work well, with minimal difficulties fixing it (I'm not a huge soaker tech person).
Any ideas? Solutions? I haven't used it in a month now, and would like it to work when I try it again.
More CPS 1200 problems - And hello all again!
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"Look! a CPS 2000 10th anniversary edition! I'll buy two, one to keep, and one to use!"
*Takes them home, opens one, fills it, and pumps it up.*
"snap!"
"Oops, I guess it had a Max-D trigger."
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"Look! a CPS 2000 10th anniversary edition! I'll buy two, one to keep, and one to use!"
*Takes them home, opens one, fills it, and pumps it up.*
"snap!"
"Oops, I guess it had a Max-D trigger."
Not too sure on this one. Perhaps if you adjusted the trigger rod position to give more torque and reinforced it so it has the strength to pull, that may work. However, never tried fixing this type of problem so not sure how successful it'd be.
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Read the SSC article on trigger pulling problems first, but that's not the entire problem.
My assumption is that, on your individual soaker, the pressure gets too high for the trigger valve. That's because the bladder hits the wall, but unlike in most soakers, the pressure release valve must not be working at a low enough pressure. That short pressure spike overloads the trigger valve, in other words.
If possible, you should try to replace the trigger pin spring with a slightly stronger one or do something like that--it'll probably be hard. While the trigger will be slightly harder to pull, it will actually pull the pin and open the valve instead of just compressing that spring.
The most drastic solution (assuming you still want to pump up to a certain level) would probably be to replace the pressure release valve with a new one from McMaster-Carr. I don't know the details, but you can probably tweak the release pressure until you get it right.
Overall, this sounds like a tricky repair, so good luck!
My assumption is that, on your individual soaker, the pressure gets too high for the trigger valve. That's because the bladder hits the wall, but unlike in most soakers, the pressure release valve must not be working at a low enough pressure. That short pressure spike overloads the trigger valve, in other words.
If possible, you should try to replace the trigger pin spring with a slightly stronger one or do something like that--it'll probably be hard. While the trigger will be slightly harder to pull, it will actually pull the pin and open the valve instead of just compressing that spring.
The most drastic solution (assuming you still want to pump up to a certain level) would probably be to replace the pressure release valve with a new one from McMaster-Carr. I don't know the details, but you can probably tweak the release pressure until you get it right.
Overall, this sounds like a tricky repair, so good luck!
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