Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Notes about the Empire Trracer


  1. I don’t give a shit if it’s a ‘Nelson’ valve -- put god damn regulator on there, or at least leave space in the design for one as an upgrade.  Make a small regulator, like the one for the Mini, and sell it to us as an upgrade!  SHUT UP AND TAKE OUR MONEY. It’s not like it has to be a superfast regulator.  Tiberius built a tiny reg into their pistol.  Tippmann built a tiny reg into their pistol, and they’re clinically retarded!  The bolt is simpler to make since you’re not adjusting velocity there, and you don’t need the stupid ass long allen wrench, so that reduces cost too.  And if you need another cost reduction, just fucking drop the barrel.  Nobody wants that fucking thing anyways.
  2. Backbottle?  Seriously?  Backbottle?  I know the original had backbottle.  I know you wanted to reissue teh gun, BUT IT WASN’T NECESSARY TO COPY THAT FEATURE, THANKS. Fucking playing with backbottle sucks. Just put a 1/8 NPT port on the side, and make it so you can flip that back end so that the port is on the right or left side. That's it.
  3. Detent is weak; could use two of them (one up, one down).  Smallbore paint rolls right through.
  4. Pump arm Picatinny didn’t extend back far enough; had to carve it to get the AFG2 to fit where I wanted.
  5. Somewhat wobbly pump arm. Minor issue.





Ah, the Empire Trracer.  Would have been a great gun had they not fucked it up.  Maybe they deliberately fucked it up so the Sniper would look better.  I dunno.  Guess I'll get some custom work done for mine.