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gun. When I heard that the 2012
design was going out of production
to be replaced by a new design, I
wondered how Machine Paintball
would keep the good while getting
rid of the ‘bad’.
The 2014 Vapor is an evolution and
simplification of the 2012 Vapor,
with an entirely different bolt design and a new-to-paintball paint
sensing system. While still looking like a Vapor, there are many
changes to the design to lower the
IQ required to maintain the gun
while preserving the accuracy and
quietness of the previous gun.
The only real fault the 2012 Vapor had was that it required an IQ
higher than room temperature to
maintain and operate. One bitterly
complained about ‘fault’, was the
necessity for low pressure input
into the inline regulator. Doing so
with the 2012 gun would instantly
cause over pressurization, which
in turn would cause massive air
leaks.
Properly maintained by a reasonably intelligent player and given
450-550 psi input into the ASA,
the 2012 Vapor has proven itself to
be a extraordinarily quiet, devastatingly accurate and stupidly fast
July 2014
Right out of the shipping box,
the case the 2014 Vapor comes
in a new case, this one made of
a semi-rigid material. Inside the
zippered case we found the gun,
a large assortment of o-rings, hex
wrenc