What to do when pulling the pen on a paintball gun?

Answer 1

Be careful:

First off, you must likely have a spyder or spyder replica (copy, clone, wanna be, etc.).

Bottom line is if you have a pin hanging out the side of your gun here is what to do:

If you pull the pin out, both the upper chamber (where the bolt is) and the lower chamber (where the air passes through) will spring out! This will happen because 1) they are connected (top and bottom chamber) and 2.) because there is a spring in the bottom chamber which assists in re-cocking the semi automatic (or fully) paintball gun.

Before you do any work on the gun you want to make sure you have disconnected the air. Manually cocked the gun after doing so, and test fire the gun. In your test fire(s) you are trying to make sure all the air is out of the gun. Shoot the gun repeatedly until all the air is gone. Once all the air is out, the gun is safe to work on.

So, when pulling the pin on your paintball gun (after all the air is out) you may put your hand on the back of both chambers (bolt and the bottom [velocity adjuster usually]) and catch the parts before the fall to the ground. Then pull them out slowly, as they are attached, and take careful notice to how everything is arranged. Hope that helped.

Picture of gun with pin located on the side, between top and bottom chambers:

http://www.pbreview.com/productpics/?product=2762&photo=5778

Hence the air being disconnected.