Posted by: Dale "Head_Hunters" DuPont on December 11, 2002 at 19:11:42

The tippman is practically impossible to repair on the field or staging area if you have to split the two halves apart to fix it. To get it apart you have to take the right and left side apart and about 30 very small parts, springs, pins can fall out and go who knows where. Fortunately the Tippmam is known for reliability and rarely needs field repairs. The spyder is easy to repair at the field. Both cleaned and maintained are trouble free. Because the Tippman is such a bear to tear down and clean, it tends not to happen at all. Then it WILL wear out parts prematurely. The spyder is cleaned top to bottom and relubed in 10 minutes. So I lean towards the Spyder for preventive maintenace and cleaning. Lots of competitatively priced aftermarket parts for spyders. You get tippman parts from Tippman at an expensive markup. Upgrades for the Tippmans are extremely expensive. You had a LP chamber, expansion chamber, stock, and you could have bought an autococker that can run circles around it. If you want to upgrade down the road get a Spyder. Which spyder. Spyder compact, NITROGEN, revy hopper. You won't NEED an expansion chamber or regulator, or all that flashy stuff that has no function except to increase their profit. My boy has played 8 years and still uses a STOCK spyder classic with just that set up. He put Diablo Inferno though it and it shoots straight as an arrow. Beads on a String. The key to accuracy is paint quality and NOT barrel upgrades an other hardware. By noon several players have come up and asked what 'upgrades' he has. We tell them it is stock, Inferno, and 8 years of practice. He is absolutely lethal with it. Remember, every time you change or upgrade the marker, it will shoot differently. Your aim and game will be off. Keep it simple, reliable, and learn the game.

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