I cut my leaf spring too short who sells em ?

[jondbold]

I assume they are rather cheap.. please list sites that sell them thank you

[Emmit]

:doh:

[Paul99]

If the square hole is intact it will still work,you just need to bend it about a bit,if you still cant get it set up,glue two metal pieces onto it,one over the other with the original spring in the middle and cut to fit...good luck,I dont think anybody sell the spring alone,ask WDP?

[jondbold]

I dont want to jerry rig it with anything involving glue and extra pieces

[Jim@ImpactPaintball]

may i ask why you cut it? is this some new mod i havnt heard about?

[jondbold]

to shorten the trigger pull

[jondbold]

Help anyone ? This is bs no one stocks/sells em and wdp wants you to replace your whole board for one.

[Gary1]

Were you attempting the mod described by Capnut?

[capnut]

wow, ......i hope that i not going to get blame for this.....but what i will do is look at some stuff to make a spring for him and we will go from there.......so hang in there........O.......i will have a video of what 19bps with paint can do........:smile:

[jondbold]

Jim@impact, You never responded to my msg. I asked if you guys at Impact put in new springs or could. Tag says they dont carrey em right now. Im outta luck and am going to have to spend $150 for a new board cause wdp wont put a new spring in because it's been "tampered" with. I can't machine my own spring either no equipment or I would. Sigh.. Anyone wanna buy my board =\ or even my Ir3

[Emmit]

see jonbold.......that's the problem......you opened the board, and made a small mistake, I can understand you were trying to make your trigger more sensitive, but now that you haven't and you've damaged the board you're kinda screwed......good luck

oh and WDP is fully within their rights to say no to you on this one......you willingly tampered with the board, and opened it breaking the seals they put on it....sorry to say, but you brought this on yourself

[Gary1]

Memorial services will be held.....

[jondbold]

First off I didn’t open the board. I slit open one side of the casing but didn't feel confident enough to proceed. I lifted the casing up and saw how it was glued together and didn’t want to attempt breaking plastic in the processes after I read how I could adjust it externally, although a bit late. How the hell did I know WDP were going to be Nazi’s about it? I cut a small piece of metal too short now I have to pay $150 to replace a perfectly good board that just needs a $3 spring. It was “tampered” with because I opened the side. I expected I could just pay for a new spring and learn from my mistake. I never imagined this endeavor would turn into a nightmare. I acknowledged the fact that if I broke the spring I’d be paying for that part. But I did not realize WDP would deem what I did tampering to the point that I had to fork out $150, by force me to replace a perfectly good board that could be repaired with a cheap spring.

Secondly my warranty was up. So why would I care about breaking the seal (which I didn’t break directly, I went around it by going to the other side and looking. Then was told by peaking/opening the other side open that I was tampering). No where did I read or hear mention of being forced to buy a new board. Rant Mode: I guess I could expect this from a company that makes you buy a special tool kit to repair your gun. I was a WDP fanboy alas this incident has changed my mind. My warrenty is up do I expect them to fix the whole board? No I did not. Do I expect to be able to buy a spring or pay them to put a new one in? Yes. A spring is a cheap part to keep on hand and should be available to anyone. I don’t expect to be able to buy something like bios chip because it might contain sensitive information. What’s the difference? You HAVE to open the board to get to the bios but not the spring. Along with the fact that you’d have to unsolder the chip. What a fickle industry. Paint me disappointed.

[Gary1]

It's kinda like Rolls Royce...they (I was told) locked the hood to the engine compartment, and they were only ones that could work on the motor. This way, it would always be running like they intended it. If it had been me, I would have purchased the new board first, then done whatever to the old one. No sweat...Wilber and Orville crashed before flying....right?

[rebelace12]

thats bull i would find someone who sells a spring like that

[J@Y]

could doc nickle fix it? hell if can make a angel right feed

[capnut]

hey did you fix your spring yet....? i might come up with one soon....hang in there.

[jondbold]

nope still haven't fixed it. I stoop so low to bend over and fork out the $150 or whatever for the new board and can't even find a online site that sells em... anyone provide a link ? mem 6 (cops2) prefered

[Emmit]

noone sells the board alone, you're going to have send in your now "bad" board to a WDP Service Center, and get it replaced.

[flojo]

Emmit, i broke my board right in half trying to do capnuts mod. I even cut my hand on it. I called up cobra and they said theyd sell me a new board for 250 dollars. I sent my gun in yesterday without a board because it was cracked, bloody, n broken. Will they put a new board in it without me sending my old board in? i already threw out the old one.

[Emmit]

flojo....better call them and find out.....

[jondbold]

$250 WTF !?

[Gary1]

Flojo...tell them the truth. You can't send "biohazards" (read: bloody) parts through the system without special shipping rates! The packages have to be marked special...and they would have charged you dearly (more than likely)...

[josh_mp5]

ask around at hardware stores and bring the original you might find a similar spring

[jondbold]

Originally posted by flojo
Emmit, i broke my board right in half trying to do capnuts mod. I even cut my hand on it. I called up cobra and they said theyd sell me a new board for 250 dollars. I sent my gun in yesterday without a board because it was cracked, bloody, n broken. Will they put a new board in it without me sending my old board in? i already threw out the old one.

You were the one insulting me and calling me a moron on my other thread ?I could say the same ... but nah I'm not even going to start on, I'll be the bigger man. Were both in a pinch here obviously. Not sure how you broke your whole board but I was told $150 for a new Mem6a Board. I assumed that included the whole little unit there. Otherwise Wdp can go to hell if they wanna charge you $100 more for the other plastic crap. Unfortunatly, I can't find anywhere online that sells it. To bad I can't just put a Speed board (cheaper/higher rof cap ?) in...

[flojo]

thers nopoint for having 30 bps. no one can feed that fast

[IshBalla]

and if you can shoot that fast.... DAMN!

[NONE_too_SOFT]

as i am not quite an IR3 owner yet( about 7 days to go :-D ) i would not know for sure... but it seems to me that if you were able to cut the spring, you should be able to take it out and put in a replacement... im sure you could find one similar, that will do the same job... just break open all the pens in your house. thats what i do w/ my strange(after i replaced the magno trigger)

[Emmit]

none too soft.......that's not the spring he's referring to.....

basically he attempted to modify his board, and in doing so made the board unuseable. WDP says he violated his warranty, and must now pay full price for the board.

Lesson learned: Do not attempt to modify the board as doing so will void your warranty on the board, and WDP will not fix it.

Hopefully now everyone understands what the lesson to be learned here was.

[C.Carles-AOG]

jondbold, try modifying the ECU on a car and see your 20-30k or more investment all of a sudden be a paperweight. Case in point, for turbo cars like VW/Audi you can buy a "chip" and make your car faster as it advances the timing, etc.
When you do this you have voided your warranty. Furthermore, a new ECU will cost you $1,500 or more.
There's a saying in the car world when it comes to modifying: You have to pay to play.
You know you're risking it, you do it anyway. Don't b!tch to the manufacturer afterwards.

[jondbold]

Wow, I'm glad the Moderators are so damn helpfull around here.... Thanks, you know cause insulting me and putting me down it really makes my day.

Yes, use your off the wall little car analogy. Oh wait , whats that ? Oh its a Car.. and lets see it costs what $40k+. for an audi. Hell $40,000, $125 whats the differnce... Sigh. Thanks for the constructive post seriously don't post unless you got somthing helpfull cause I dont need to hear it. I already outlined this and apparently people have a hard time reading it. I post about my confusion on warrenty and how/why I removed it the way I did thinking I could avoid the situation which I find myself in now.

[Emmit]

jondbold.....no offense dude but if you don't like a post report it, that's what the button is there for. As for attacks on the moderators, C.Carles was trying to make an analogy about warranties.....doesn't matter if it was $1500 or a $40000 car, warranties are almost always written to state no modifications other than factory etc etc, You'll also note that I had tried to keep things quite civil in this thread, and simply tried to summarize as someone else piped in and had also damaged their board attempting to mod it just like you did. So I'm sorry if someone hurt your feelings, but you really might want to refrain from spouting off in the future, you'll get much more helpful information and be treated much better. I believe just a few posts up you mentioned how you wanted to be the bigger man and not "flame" someone who had made comments about you earlier in another thread, yet here you are attacking the moderators and the way things are run around here. You'll notice in more than a few threads that we've been very laid back, and attempt to help everyone not only with their problems with their Angels, but we also attempt to liven things up from time to time. However from time to time it seems we have to throw our moderator hats on and stop someone from doing something, do you think it's a power trip for us? It's not, it's an extra job. If you've got constructive criticism post it in the suggestions/feedback forum. If you don't like a post report it instead of attacking it. Every post that is reported is dealt with by either C.Carles, Matt, or myself on a daily basis.

Thanks
Emmit