Restoring an antique Puma paintball marker 

Absolutely fantastic restoration and one of the best restoration videos I have seen. Cue the dramatic music!

Awesome work Doc! Very satisfying to watch even when I don't understand what's being made

A piece of paintball history brought back to life! Nicely done.

First teardown and tool made for that thing in almost 40 years. Wow!

Nice to see the Ductor helping out with another restoration... As is proper for a RU-vid restoration video featuring parts getting a bath in soapy H2O :)

I was going to pop in an suggest a rubber duckie in the sink while you were washing the barrel assembly… then you zoomed out and it was in the soap dish! Touché! Nice work Doc, that thing shot with more authority than I was expecting!

Back when I was into paintball, about 2 decades ago, I collected antique markers and often used them as backup or to make games more interesting. Sold most of them later on…

7:05 Rubber ducky for scale.

Do more work videos like this! I loved it

I really enjoyed this!

A very nice restoration, the looked real good once ya finished. Boy were they crusty in that disassembled shot.

Outstanding video Sir, thank you very much for sharing. As a long time lover of Paintball and an affinity for it's History, coupled with an almost equal admiration for Machining and Restoration, this video checks off so many boxes. Although I've never owned one or even held one, the Avratech R7 is my pick for best PB Pistol. Those aside, these Pumas are darned cool in their own right though. If only they had a means for a control bore insert and likely a .45 grip compatible frame, these would be that much better-er.

Its kinda zen. I find myself thinking.. is that him wearing a respirator because it smells, what's he thinking while silently scrubbing away at this enigmatic piece of paintball history? The attention to detail and passion for preserving this piece of the past is inspiring.

Very awesome video

Love it. You are awesome.

Anyone else waiting for the rest of Shine On You Crazy Diamonds to kick in? Just me?

This is my favorite ASMR channel

Very nice. Interesting to see the internals of the machine.

Great restoration vid! Hope to see more!

Saw the plastic bottle bobbing in the soapy water and started wishing you had a yellow rubber duck in there instead...

According to fast googling, these must be priceless collectables now. "Puma" from Indian Creek Designs looks more googleable 🙂

Honestly, I'm a little disappointed that you didn't use a laser or some sort of nanites on this. Then again maybe I've just been reading the whiteboard too long. 🤣

LOL Mountain Dew cans...

Do we have any clue what happened to this marker? just old and neglected or something more spectacular? Love the vid btw

That is very cool. Did someone try to paint that poor thing white? Excellent work.

I saw on your website the you made a prototype lever action paintball gun called "The Duke" back in 2016, did anything come of it? I would love to see a video update on it.

I was doing paintball back at that point, and I don't recall anything quite like that, no. I have a couple of comments, nothing nasty. 1) Where's the barrel plug? You forgot to put that in when you finished shooting :) 2) I would call this a full refurbishment, rather than a restoration. I know it's more semantics than anything else, but what you did was clean it up, replace all parts that were missing or damaged, and put it back into a full serviceable/usable condition. That's perfect, because it's a tool to be used, not a tool to look pretty. It's just in a restoration, you generally work to put it in "like new" condition, which in this case would have involved polishing the aluminum corrosion, filling/smoothing the pits, and so forth - which isn't necessary. (and using exact material replacement parts where possible. I doubt that washer material is still around after 35 years, for example) Subscribed and voted up.

What kind of tap would you use to run that internal acme thread? Or is it a fast run bore kinda thing?