Posted by: Hons on March 09, 2003 at 14:26:51

: Okay, I keep seeing differing opinions on how light/hard your hammer/valve springs should be, and I just want a straight answer from SOMEBODY. With a LP valve, what is the right combination for gas efficiency/lowest pressure? Are they necessarily different setups? Somebody set me straight. : Thanks in advance, : Devman ok here goes. first of all... "combination for gas efficiency/lowest pressure?" Efficiency and lowest pressure are 2 phrases that don't belong in the same sentence. HIGH pressure = Efficiency, LOW pressure = consumption of more air. A high pressure gun uses a short yet high pressure (hence the name) blast of air... therefore uses less air but with greater force. Low pressure allows a longer exhaust of air at a lower pressure... volume vs. pressure. Low pressure guns get less shots to the fill, that's how it is. If you have a low pressusre valve in your gun, the lighter the spring, the harder the spring, the higher the pressure, the lower the spring, the lower the pressure

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