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« on: March 12, 2007, 10:16:19 PM »

i've used the search feature and it wasn't much help. i know keepiru works for tx-tuing but he/she hasn't posted in months. i want to know if anyone here has had any experience with thier breakbeam eye conversion? i'm close to buying the kit but i have some questions not to mention their site doesn't give an option for credit cards or paypal. if you have any input please post up.

btw, kick ass site.   Cheesy
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« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2007, 11:18:03 AM »

Glad you found the site and welcome to the site.

I don't think very many people here in North America have experience with TX-Tuning.  Their pump-arm-less cocker conversion was highly popular, but due to them being overseas and the fact that their conversion was really only viable on 2002 and older bodies that hadn't been milled much, most people just looked and that was it.  From the looks of their site, they've dropped the conversion entirely.

Blackbean from this site offers a breakbeam conversion that doesn't require custom eye covers like the TX-Tuning setup.  You can find more information on his site at:

http://www.cocknpull.com/

I have a feeling that the TX-Tuning version might be a bit cleaner looking with the eye covers than Blackbean's setup, and since I've always been interested in converting to breakbeams, I dropped TX-Tuning an email just to see what it would take to get one of their kits over here in the US.  Just like you I noticed that there doesn't seem to be a good way to pay for the item.  I created an account on their site.  Since I'm in the US, I don't have to pay the 19% tax which dropped the list price to 58.40 EUR which currently converts to $77.25 USD.  The site didn't list any shipping charges and offered money order/check or a COD option.  I don't even know if the COD option would be available since they are shipping overseas and I have no idea if I'd have to pay the COD in EUR or USD.  Getting an international cashier's check through my bank to pay in EUR would cost me another $40.

So anyway, I asked them if they had a US distributor.  If not, I asked what the best way of paying for the item would be.  I further mentioned the COD option, the $40 cashier's check cost, and the lack of shipping charges.  I also asked if they could provide a template so I could drill and tap the holes myself.  Lastly, I asked if they could send me pictures of both sides of a body with a completed install so that I could see how the new covers line up and how the left side gets its wires into the grip frame since there's no groove on the right side.

Odds are I personally won't take the leap to breakbeams.  While some people say that bouncebeams are slower than breakbeams, they both use the exact same sensors, so the reaction time should be the same.  The only real difference is that breakbeams are usually installed at the bottom of the breach so that they only see the paintball once it is fully in the breach while the bounce eyes are in the middle and potentially see the ball before it has dropped all the way in.  While some have trouble with different paints and a bouncebeam setup, the eBlade software does an excellent job and I really never have problems even with black shelled paint.  Breakbeam setups can also have problems such as see-through paint, light shining down the barrel, and even problems when the ball rolls forward or backward since the sensors are so low in the breach.

Anyway, I'll let you know if I hear anything from them.
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« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2007, 08:06:10 PM »

wow  8O  i was not expecting such an informative response. to be honest i know the BB wouldn't be great improvement over reflective: however i'm a cocker whore and wanted another way of making my gun stand out.
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« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2007, 11:38:49 AM »

I still haven't heard back from TX-Tuning.  I managed to find a few more pictures of markers with the eyes installed mostly from the TX-Tuning forums which are in German.  Online translations didn't provide any new information really.  There were also a few pictures without the eye covers and of the additional slot that they milled into the trigger frame to allow for the additional eye on the left side of the marker.  From what I can tell, the eye covers are made of aluminum instead of the rubber-ized Eclipse eye cover.  I'll update if I ever hear anything from TX-Tuning.
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« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2007, 01:47:30 PM »

thank you.
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