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[Firefox551]

I have just dissasembled my titan, and the tubing was exremely hard to get off. When it did finally come off it was so mangled that it had holes in it, rendering it useless of couse. So my question is, is there a type of vynle tubing that is the same inner diameter (or very close to) the diameter of a titans tubing. I measured that the inner diameter of the titans tube is 2/8in or 6mm. If anyone could point me in the direction of where to get vynle tubing, or tell me if this size doesn't exist, it would be much apreciated. I did search for this and didn't find anything on size. On one thread it said that it could be found in hardware stores, but I havn't seen anything remotely close to it at my local ACE. I'm new to all this tubing buisiness, so if there is anything I should know that would also be much apreciated.

Oh, and, sorry for the speech.

[BlackFox]

1/4" vinyl tubing is pretty standard for nerf guns. That should be primarily what you use but if you've got, say, a break in the tubing, 3/8" fits over the 1/4" very well.

When I'm doing work on air guns, I usually cut about 1" of 3/8" tubing and stick both ends of the 1/4" inside then glue it down. Works every time.

[Firefox551]

1/4" vinyl tubing is pretty standard for nerf guns. That should be primarily what you use but if you've got, say, a break in the tubing, 3/8" fits over the 1/4" very well.

When I'm doing work on air guns, I usually cut about 1" of 3/8" tubing and stick both ends of the 1/4" inside then glue it down. Works every time.

Ok thanks, sorry I just realized that 2/8 = 1/4. I'm really smart as you can tell . I'll be checking to see if ACE stocks it, if not I'll have to make a trip to Home Depot or somewhere.

[Lynx]

Sorry, but usually you need to go to an aquarium store with a measuring instrument to get correct sizes of vinyl tubing.

[TantumBull]

Or Home Depot...

[Draconis]

You definitely want something that can handle some pressure. Most aquarium tubing is not pressure rates, and is quite this. Might work for stock air blasters, but not for the 50-60 PSI that modified units get up to.

[imaseoulman]

Titan uses approximately 1/4" ID tubing. Most other guns use approximately 1/8" ID tubing. They are often off by as much as 1/16" from any standard size, but fortunately, most vinyl tubing is fairly forgiving. And just for the record, BlastFires use something around 7/32" ID vinyl tubing.

General rule, go with 1/8" ID unless it has abnormally wide tubing, then 3/16" or 1/4" ID tubing is the way to go.

[BlackFox]

Any time I cut vinyl* tubing...
(*) see! It's not so hard to spell.

Courtesy of your friendly self-appointed spelling Nazi.

[Draconis]

Any time I cut vinyl* tubing...
(*) see! It's not so hard to spell.

Courtesy of your friendly self-appointed spelling Nazi.

I think he would prefer "Grammar Enforcement Agent". Nazi has so many bad connotations.... Like, well, ALL of them.