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New DeSignz Aluminum Vision I-Cover
From the Web site:
Impulse Aluminum Vision
I-Covers in 3 Styles
Lightweight aluminum
Impulse vision eye covers with distinctive milling. Once installed,
its easy to remove for cleaning under your cover. Just unscrew the
ball detent and off it comes. No need to remove your whole frame
anymore.
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Fits all Impulse's including all after
market boards and eyes without any modifications
- Allows for easy cleaning of your eye
and ribbon from a messy chop or from that hit down the side of your
marker
- I-Cover also provides a surface ideal
for stickers
- Comes in 3 styles and 6 different
colors. Standard, flame and narrow
$ Engraved versions available
*Available Red, Black, Green, Purple,
Blue & Silver.
Some people are going to look at this and say
"Why the heck did New DeSignz make a cosmetic upgrade for the
Impulse?" Now I can understand what you are thinking, but the difference
with the New DeSignz I-Cover is in what you are NOT thinking about.
Why do you need a New DeSignz Vision
I-Cover?
Ok, the purpose of the stock Vision eye
cover is to protect the ribbon cable that connects the eye mounted on the
side of the Impulse to the daughter
board. Hopefully everyone understands this much. So why the
new cover?? There are a couple reasons:
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It's happened to you at least once, it happens to
everyone, you are having the game of your life and then SPLAT!
Someone just shot the side of your Impulse. Or worse yet,
you got bunkered. If it was a good day it would have been on the left
side of your marker, but no, it was right before the Vision cover and
there is paint all over the place. You clean up and get back
into the game.
Later you get home and try to
clean things up, the problem is to get under the eye cover you first need to
separate the grip frame from the body, then take out the ball detent just to get the
eye cover off. THIS is where the New DeSignz I-Cover can save
you lots of time and effort. Because the I-Cover is aluminum
there is no need to secure it between the body and the grip frame,
so it does not have the little tab on the bottom like the stock
eye cover.
If you had the I-Cover in the first
place you could have simply removed the ball detent and I-cover,
wiped things down, put your I-cover and ball detent back in place
and been back in action with a completely clean Impulse.
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OK, so maybe you did not get shot in
the side of your gun. Even worse, you were ripping on a
sting of shots and then CHOP! You forgot to turn your
Vision eye on. OK, you would never do such a thing, but your
friend that wanted to borrow your Impulse just did. Now you
have to clean your barrel, bolt and ball detents.
Once you start cleaning things you
realize this time it's more of a mess than usual. Looks like
there is paint on the eye. Better remove the eye and wipe it
off. The only problem is now you need to remove the grip
frame just to get the little eye cover off.
I'm sure you can see where I am
going with this. With an I-cover you have easy access to the
Vision eye. By quickly remove a detent and the I-Cover you
can get to the Vision eye, to wipe it off, re-assemble and be back
in action.
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The New DeSignz I-Cover is milled
to work with the eye system on the Wicked
Air Sportz Equalizer board for the Impulse. The Smart Parts Vision eye cover will not work
and can not be modified to work. |
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It looks cool. Here is another
area that you can customize on your Impulse. While it is not
milled for a Vision Jewel, there is a flat surface that any jewel
or sticker would stick to.
If you desired, you could have the
I-Cover anodized to match a specific color scheme. NOTE:
The anodizing would have to be done by someone other than New
DeSignz. New DeSignz only offers I-Covers in the standard
New DeSignz colors pictured above. |
What if I have a Custom Impulse, will the I-Cover
fit?
The I-Cover fits great on my Adrenalin Impulse, pictured
below. I can only imagine that it will also
fit
on just about every other Custom Impulse out there.
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Picture of my
Adrenalin Impulse
with New DeSignz narrow I-Cover. |
Installation:
- Because the the grip frame holds the bottom of
the stock Vision eye cover in place you will need to remove the grip
frame from the body.
- Next, remove the ball detent that holds the stock Vision cover in
place.
- Separate the ball detent from the Vision eye cover. You
might not need to do this, but mine stuck together.
- Put the grip frame back on the body.
- Place the New DeSignz I-Cover in place.
- Screw your ball detent back in.
- Done!
I read in one of the forums someone was concerned about
adding additional weight to their Impulse by replacing the Smart Parts
Vision cover with the I-Cover. I still laugh when I think about
it. The I-cover weighs next to nothing. It's only Aluminum.
I hope I write higher better reviews than the quality of
the pictures I take!! Pictured below is a New DeSignz I-Cover on the
left and a stock Smart Parts Vision eye cover on the right. The image
contains both a front and profile. Like a mug shot (so I've heard)
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Silver
I-Cover on the left stock eye cover on the right. |
The Details
- Installation: Installation is
easier than easy.
- MSRP: $26.95
- Options: Currently available in
Red, Blue, Purple, Green, Silver and
Black.
- Pro's: Makes
quick time of cleaning your Impulse. The I-Cover work with the
W.A.S. eye.
- Cons: As always, none.
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