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| History of the 2250 project | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The first time I used a CPS-2000 was at a church party. One of my friends brought one and we enjoyed playing with it like we always do with water guns and other toys of the like. What I really loved about it was the total power it seemed to have. Before this the biggest gun that I had was a Super Soaker 300. Now that’s a great gun, but it is really big and awkward to use, and I was amazed by the power of this new gun (my friends CPS-2000). This experience (and my SS-300 breaking several times) let me to invest in a new gun. The new gun I ended up getting was the CPS-2500. After much research online I found out that this gun was essentially a CPS-2000 (or so I thought then). When I finally got my 2500 I was not disappointed. It was (and still is) an awesome gun. I loved it, and used it no problem for a bout a year. Until I broke the trigger. One of the weak points of this design was the trigger system. It was made of thinner plastic than it should have been in several key places. So the gun got put away in case I could someday fix it. In the mean time I looked up what I could find on line. I leaned that there were 2 versions of the 2000 and that the original had a more powerful pressure chamber. At that point I wondered if I could take the PC out of a 2000 and put it in a 2500. I considered this a little and that was all for then. This was like late 99, or early 2000. So I eventually got the trigger on my CPS-2500 fixed by replacing it with a SC-400 trigger. Check the Mods and Repairs section for more info on this. At a small skirmish at a friends house I was using my CPS-2500 and him his MXL and we were talking about how we could make our guns better. I then brought up my idea of using a CPS-2000 PC in my CPS-2500. He thought it sounded cool, so we both went on eBay and started the hunt for a mk1 CPS-2000. eBay turned out not to be the place to pick one up. The prices just got too high. The hunt went of for a few years until one day during Santa Clara curbside pick up week (a time when people pile the curbs with all the trash they don’t want… but often good stuff ends up with it). I found a CPS-2000 mk1. I was really stoked. When I brought it home and tried it out it turned out it had a small leak in the PC. I was really disappointed, but the world goes on. About a week later my dad came home with another CPS-2000 mk1. Now I don’t know what the odds of that are but that was pretty awesome. The pump on this one was a bit shot, but we were able to get it working enough to try it out. And it was awesome. The CPS-2000 really does have a feel like no other water gun. So within the week I had it and the other CPS-2000 apart and a CPS-2500. I took parts from each and made them into what some have called the ultimate water gun. Now I don’t know if I would agree of disagree with this; it was a good gun, but the best, I don’t know about that. So anyways it turned out to be a great gun. Now mind it did have its own set of problems, just like any gun does, but those are discussed elsewhere. So I ended up using it for one battle before I reverted it back to its original CPS-2500 and CPS-2000s. This was mostly because I missed the total power of the CPS-2000. So I used the CPS-2000 and CPS-2500 for a while just fine. Until one day in the middle of a fight the triggering system broke down on my CPS-2500 again. (I had happened one more time that went un mentioned here). So that gun is still awaiting repairs. Hopefully to be service in the summer of 2004. The CPS-2000 sadly died in a battle. When I was pumping it up the pressure chamber burst lengthwise. That rendered the gun useless… for now. I still plan to try to attempt to fix one of them, but that may or may not happen. So that concludes that chapter in the history of me and my water guns. At least for now… |
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