I own an Apex Elite, and what you have there is definitely one of them. The Apex didn't have that little pump arm spacer ring, nor did its pump have o-rings around it for additional grip. That ring was designed to be sacrificial, to prevent the pump arm's bolt threads from damaging the slot in the body of the paintball gun. The adjustable ASA was an interesting design, though I found it to be a bit finicky in practice. The trigger was fantastic for its time; I believe it had adjustment set screws inside the grip that allowed you to adjust takeup and overtravel on the trigger. I also have an Apex conversion kit that was basically everything except a grip, which you'd just take from your old Nel-Spot 007 paint pistol. That thing was frighteningly accurate. Fun times, back in the day.
Hey Guys All of our pump guns used what we called the shock buffer aluminum ring to keep the barrel from getting hammered by the bolt/pump screw. You're correct in that the Apex Elite got the oringed pump and our die cast aluminum lower frame. Yes, we put a trigger travel take-up adjustment set screw in the trigger.
Back when... I bought an old Sunnen honing machine and started working on optimal barrel inside diameters along with tapered and stepped bore diameters. We sourced out barrel tube a little undersize and honed all of our barrels to size. I made a hand full of barrels with suppressors, the suppressor and barrel were honed together to insure a seamless and dead straight bore.
The Vector was basically an automated Sterling pump, with the 3-way starting a pump stroke that activated an autotriggering cycle, so that in the gun actually fired near the end of the cycle, opposite of an autococker. The Brass Eagle Rainmaker worked in a very similar way.
I remember a lot of those back in the day. Everybody that had a phantom was making fun the guys that had those. I had a second hand pgp so I couldn't really make fun of anybody
@@rarepaintballguns7160 Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts. Up here paintball never got very popular. So we didn't see it influx of Major Brands until the late 90s. So throughout the years I've used many markers that would be considered rare, or more accurately put oddball
@@rarepaintballguns7160 as far as old schoolool goes you got to love the Benjamin Sheridan's. They were all almost identical, pretty much the only change was barrel length. If your velocity was off you had to strip the whole thing down to change Springs. I love those bricks
Hey Guys! I'm the guy that designed the Air Power products here in VaBec/Norfolk starting back in 1986. If you have questions I can answer them. Greg K
Where can I find parts I need that spacer ring and a hopper lol, thankyou for your design I'm rebuilding an apex elite right now and I can't wait to shoot it
I own an Apex Elite, and what you have there is definitely one of them. The Apex didn't have that little pump arm spacer ring, nor did its pump have o-rings around it for additional grip. That ring was designed to be sacrificial, to prevent the pump arm's bolt threads from damaging the slot in the body of the paintball gun. The adjustable ASA was an interesting design, though I found it to be a bit finicky in practice. The trigger was fantastic for its time; I believe it had adjustment set screws inside the grip that allowed you to adjust takeup and overtravel on the trigger.
I also have an Apex conversion kit that was basically everything except a grip, which you'd just take from your old Nel-Spot 007 paint pistol. That thing was frighteningly accurate.
Fun times, back in the day.
Thank you so much for adding this info! I really appreciate it!
Hey Guys All of our pump guns used what we called the shock buffer aluminum ring to keep the barrel from getting hammered by the bolt/pump screw. You're correct in that the Apex Elite got the oringed pump and our die cast aluminum lower frame. Yes, we put a trigger travel take-up adjustment set screw in the trigger.
Back when... I bought an old Sunnen honing machine and started working on optimal barrel inside diameters along with tapered and stepped bore diameters. We sourced out barrel tube a little undersize and honed all of our barrels to size. I made a hand full of barrels with suppressors, the suppressor and barrel were honed together to insure a seamless and dead straight bore.
The Vector was basically an automated Sterling pump, with the 3-way starting a pump stroke that activated an autotriggering cycle, so that in the gun actually fired near the end of the cycle, opposite of an autococker. The Brass Eagle Rainmaker worked in a very similar way.
I had a vector for a while I always enjoyed shooting that marker
I remember a lot of those back in the day. Everybody that had a phantom was making fun the guys that had those.
I had a second hand pgp so I couldn't really make fun of anybody
Lol you and me both....I do love my phantoms but these apex’s were highly sought after at the field I played at.
Where did you play?
@@rarepaintballguns7160 Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts. Up here paintball never got very popular. So we didn't see it influx of Major Brands until the late 90s. So throughout the years I've used many markers that would be considered rare, or more accurately put oddball
That’s awesome. What was your favorite
@@rarepaintballguns7160 as far as old schoolool goes you got to love the Benjamin Sheridan's. They were all almost identical, pretty much the only change was barrel length. If your velocity was off you had to strip the whole thing down to change Springs. I love those bricks
Hey Guys! I'm the guy that designed the Air Power products here in VaBec/Norfolk starting back in 1986. If you have questions I can answer them.
Greg K
I would love to ask you some questions
Where can I find parts I need that spacer ring and a hopper lol, thankyou for your design I'm rebuilding an apex elite right now and I can't wait to shoot it
@@johndave132 Thanks! unfortunately I don't have any spare parts of sources for them.