The majority of regular maintenance that must be done to an Ion involves cleaning and regreasing the bolt assembly. It is said that you should service the bolt after every day of play, ideally. Personally I agree with this suggestion, because not only will this ensure that the marker functions good, but it will also help to make future disasembly easy as well.
When cleaning your equipment, I suggest you have at least two lint-free cloths nearby (or equal substitute). You will use one to clean with and the other to set parts upon. Disposable paper towels, napkins, or other materials can suffice too.
Smart Parts as well as myself recommend the use of Dow/Corning 33 Shocker Lube (sl33k) with your equipment. Never use any gun oil, or Dow/Corning 55 grease.
Lastly, you must always de-gas any marker before it can be disassembled.
Select Your Bolt:
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| Stock bolt; stock-replica bolts |
Most Ion bolts fall within this category. Bolts of this type are elongated to include a "tail" for sealing off the fire chamber.
This includes the following: stock, Firebolt, Unicorn, Lucky, L6, NDZ Pro-Equ & Skeleton, Shocktech, Redz, Trinity, ANS/Warrior, BL Pillow, others. |
| Inside tailless bolts | These bolts have no tail and instead use a small-diameter boltstop.
This includes the Orange Nano and TechT L7. |
| Guided tailless bolts | These bolts have no tail and instead use a large-diameter guide or stalk to guide them.
This includes only the Deadlywind Hollowpoint. |
Related Links:
· Solenoid maintenance
· Regulator maintenance
· Infrequent parts maintenance
· Ion firing assembly details
· Troubleshooting Leaking/Shooting