Paintball Gun Maintenance: Tearing Down a Tippmann X7

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Robert Stewart, with hill13.com. The next weapon we're going to look at, in terms of maintenance is going to be the Tippmann X7. It's a relatively new addition to their line-up, and we're going to show you that all the same precautionary steps have been taken with this weapon. We've already taken away its air supply; we've taken away its ammo. Now we're going to just double-check, and make sure that the bolt is forward by gently pulling back on it, and letting it fall forward, and the bolt is forward. So, what we're going to demonstrate here is that although all weapons designed differently will will will pretty much tear down to the same basic components, you might need different tools. With this U.S. Army Alpha Black for instance, you have on the forestock, you have Phillips head screws that go in here, and then you have the typical sort of Tippmann Hex Head, Allen Wrench heads here, but on the new X7 you have something that's more like a military grade weapon. You actually have push-pins that are holding the forestock components together. We'll pull those too, and again, remember to always try to keep all of your tools; I mean your parts in a safe place. Either get you a little baggy, or a little cup, and store all of your little parts in, so that you make sure that those stay safe. And what happens here now is we've pulled the push-pins on the forestock, so the forestock should just slip right off, like that. Now you see that this is a typical Tippmann barrel right here; just threaded barrel, so that runs out like this, and again, you're going to want to check both inside and out, and make sure it's really clean, and this one apparently has no o-ring, and judging from the design it should have one, so right there we've spotted a little problem. We need to put an o-ring in this thing. Here you have a tool kit that pops out; actually it looks like the magazine is something like an AK-47, or something. All those parts fit in there. This is a field gun, so we don't run parts in it. The next piece we're going to look at is the lower receiver, and if you'll notice, it's a little bit different on the on the air supply here from the 98 we looked at, but we're definitely not going to mess with this part. You don't mess with this unless you have to; unless you have a leak. But we have push-pins again, on the receiver; lower receiver rather. We're going to pull those, and then we can separate the lower from the receiver. Now, at this point, if you have to go into the air system, we're going to have to go ahead, and take out the rest of the screws that hold the receiver together. Inside, you will find a much similar system to the other Tippmann. You'll have your front and rear bolts, and you'll need to check those, and make sure that they're clean, and if they're damaged, you'll need to replace them. Once you're done with with the receiver, and you put it back together, you can take the lower, and step it back into its position; get it on there, and we're having a little technical trouble here, but there we go. So now you can put your push-pins back in, you can put your barrel back on, your forestock back on, and you're good to go."