Oil vs. Lube

Both paintball oil and paintball lube are a way to lubricate your paintball marker (gun) and all the moving parts in the paintball marker. Just not all paintball markers use oil or lube. Most non electric mechanical paintball markers use oil as a form of lubrication. For example, Tippmann’s, Spyder’s and many more. One of the main reasons why paintball oil can’t be used on electric, high end paintball markers is because they contain a lot of o-rings. Oil will have the o-rings expand; therefore your paintball marker will not seal correctly and will leak out air. Also no liquid can go through the pneumatic solenoid (it’s a computer like piece that give the command to let the air go to the bolt, to push it forward and back so the paintball marker will fire) .One in not necessarily better that the other. It just depends on what the paintball marker requires for it to work smoothly.