INDEPENDENT RAM




Paintball markers typically use a round ram placed within a bore inside gun body.
Air passages, cut in the gun body, direct the air to the solenoid. The solenoid then directs the air into bores drilled in the body or by additional hoses to the ends of the ram.
Drilling air passages into the gun body are difficult and time consuming and the air takes a torturous route so the air is less efficient in usage and response time.
Multiple hoses mean the use of multiple barbs, which restrict airflow and more hoses means more hose cuts and areas for blow off. A bigger, heavier body is needed to hold the ram and air passages.
Teching and servicing these “ram inside the body” is hard because air leaks are difficult to locate. An air leak in the O-Ring on the Cup seal valve closest to the hammer can appear to be coming from the ram or vise versa. Also air

leaks are impossible to inspect while the gun is dissembled.  When the ram assembly is removed from the body O-Ring failure can be difficult to determine because it cannot be pressure tested.

Alien’s Independent Ram” solves these problems. The marker can be disassembled into its three main pieces and still be pressurized. A single Quick Release hose connects the ram to the body.

Because the Ram is mounted directly to the Solenoid the air passages are as short as possible and the air release is much quicker than with the use of QEV’s (Quick Release Valves)

The Independent Ram has one moving O-Ring, located on the Ram Piston. It has 2 static O-Rings. While the ram does not require service when used by a professional for an entire season, most players can accomplish the replacement of these 3 O-Rings in less than 10 minutes. You then have a ram that is rebuilt to “like new” condition.

Other Ramer type guns have a groove cut into the top of the ram body. This groove allows sand, paint and shell in the ram. Players using these guns have been ‘taught’ to take the back cap off the guns to clan clean and relube regularly and to replace the O-Rings when they are damaged or cut by the contaminants that get in. The Independent ram is a sealed unit. Sand and shell cannot get in. The service required by others is not needed. Nevertheless it is possible to lube the rammer by removing the back cap and oiling the rammer and the O-Ring in a couple of minutes.