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We recently announced that we'd be running a PAL Upgrade Programme for all Gen1 EMEK 100 owners. And this awesome programme is now LIVE! Here is the link to our PAL Upgrade Programme official page featuring all the information you need to turn your Gen1 EMEK into a battery-free, fire breathing, PAL Enabled monster:  PAL Upgrade Programme How to identify your Gen1 EMEK 100. Safety Switch: The Gen1 has a rotating safety switch in-frame. Trigger: The Gen1 has a GRN trigger - same tough material as the marker body. Feedneck: The Gen1 has a regular DefTek clamping feed neck. How to identify a PAL-Enabled EMEK 100: Safety Switch: The PAL Enabled EMEK has a push-button safety switch in-frame. Trigger: The PAL Enabled EMEK has an aluminium trigger. Feedneck: This is the major difference. The PAL Enabled EMEK features a different body to accommodate the PAL System. This allows the PAL feedneck and PAL plunger to instigate the agitation when combine...

As we're about to launch the awesome EMEK into the Planet Eclipse lineup of markers, our friends in Germany at Paintball.De grilled Jack Wood to find out more about it. So we decided to steal the interview and post it here too. After all, Jack is OUR property. And don't panic, the interview is in English. Enjoy. You’re known for creating high-end markers that are beautiful, super-reliable and have industry-leading support. So why the decision to make a field marker? Well we have been asked for years and years by our sales guys to produce a good, reliable field rental marker. But we never felt we had the ability to produce something with the same level of quality that we demand from our products at a price that the Paintball parks would be willing to pay. But with the method of construction we used for Etha2, and then the technology we employed for Gmek, combined we could make a very very reliable, very high quality, amazing shooting marker for a price close to th...