Sterling Paintball Marker FAQ

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From: shupe@crazyhorse.rchland.ibm.com (Jim Shupe)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.paintball
Subject: Sterling faq
Date: 26 May 1994 11:26:23 GMT
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Sterling Paintball Marker FAQ

Maintained by: J.T. Shupe JT_WayaGola_shupe@vnet.ibm.com

This FAQ is intended to be a collection of knowlage and wisdom accumulated
from REC.SPORTS.PAINTBALL and from personal encounters with the items and
users of the items listed above. No garauntees come with this FAQ.  The
author and contributors will not be held liable in the advent of misuse of
the information herein contained.  All suggestions and comments represent
the opinions of the author and contributors unless otherwise stated.
Any listed prices will be accompanied by the store(if available), area,
and date most recently observed.

TOC:
Gen: General Information
Probs: Common Problems
Mods: Mods considered required by
contributors
Prices: Current prices of items
Opinions

Gen====================================================================

Sterling Silver
Entry level pump paintball marker.  11" removable aluminum
barrel.  Stainless Steel internals.  Back bottle ASA.
2-piece wood grip.  High polished black anodized finish.

Sterling Stocker
Back bottle ASA.  2-piece wood grip. High polished black anodized
finish.  11" removable aluminum barrel.  Horizontal 20 ball feed.

Sterling Stock Gun Body
Available in all six STP colors and will interchange with the body
of any other Sterling pump.

Sterling STP
Available in six high polished anodized metallic colors.  Stain-
less Steel internals (mirror polished and matched).  2-piece
wood grip.  13" micro honed removable aluminum barrel.  Bottom
line.  Stainless steel braided hose.  Each valve individually
set for optimum performance.

Sterling STP Turbo
Same as Sterling STP except: 11" brass lined removable barrel.
Wrap around wood battle grip.  Spring and service kits.

Sterling Sovereign
Sterlings new semi-auto.  Ram Bolt system.  Blow back hammer.
Stainless Steel internals.  High polished black anodized external.
11" aluminum barrel.  2-piece wood grip.  ASA back bottle.
Numbered and limited.  Custom color anodizing and other options
available.

Sterling Rocker
Sterling pump to semi conversion kit.

Probs==================================================================

{Any contributions?}

Mods===================================================================

"When running on liquid, you can add a spacer to your bottomline to
ensure a constant supply of liquid to the valve. This measure will
prevent the liquid rolling back down the bottomline, leaving gas
in the line.
A spacer is a bottle rupture disk placed between the two screw in
components at the top of the bottomline, when you screw the two
components together it forms a bowl shape. make a pin sized hole
in the middle of the bowl, and voila! modification made.
This modification does have a performance penalty for rapid firing
though.  With single shots you should have better consistency.
This mod comes to the net courtesy of Tim Tryhorn, who heard it
from a Sterling sponsored player, who in turn got it from the
head Sterling  designer.-- Andrew Johnston a.b.johnston@cowan.edu.au

Prices=================================================================
retail wholesale
Sterling Silver
G&H Sterling Ltd. $215 $205

Sterling Stocker
G&H Sterling Ltd.** $215 $205

Sterling Stock Gun Body
G&H Sterling Ltd.** $ 99 $ 90

Sterling STP
G&H Sterling Ltd.** $280 $260

Sterling STP Turbo
G&H Sterling Ltd.** $350 $315

Sterling Sovereign
G&H Sterling Ltd.** $425 $390

Sterling Rocker
G&H Sterling Ltd.** $199

Parts Kit $87AUS (1AUS=.72US)

** G&H Sterling Ltd. :: 8362 Pines Boulevard Suite 290,
Pembroke Pines, FL 33024
305/438-7571
   Prices current as of 1-1-1994, subject to change.
Opinions===============================================================
Sterling Silver
{Any comments?}

Sterling Stocker
{Any comments?}

Sterling Stock Gun Body
{Any comments?}

Sterling STP/STP Turbo
Excellent pump gun.  Of all those I've shot this is the most
consistent, most accurate, smoothest pump of them all.  Very
few broken balls (even on really high humidity days).  If I
remember right (been a while) the velocity adjuster was easy
to access and once it was set it stayed pretty constant.
--JTS

Sterling Sovereign
Yeah right.  I called on this and production has been pushed
WAY back until late summer, if at all.  They claim they're
European buyers were all kinda pissed about the whole thing
and so they decided to introduce the Rocker instead.
--JTS

Sterling Rocker
{Any comments?}


--
The above text contains my opinions, not IBM's.  Unless otherwise stated.
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Waya Gola-JT Shupe. (shupe@rchland) JT_WayaGola_Shupe@Vnet.ibm.com
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