Building reliable paintball feed that fits within the scale confines of a model is one of the biggest PITA's in the hobby. I for one would advocate external loaders like the old Kingman 40 rounders IF they were exempt from hits. Comments?
Steve Tyng On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 2:25:20 PM UTC-4, Frank Pittelli wrote: > > Since your magazines will only hold 20 paint balls, I think that a > straight tube would work best, using a light-pressure spring, like the > one used in the magazine that comes with the marker, only longer. If > you made a simple socket to receive the tube, then you could reload > quickly using a modified Navarrone Gun loading process: > > - Disconnect magazine from marker > - Cock spring > - Pour 20 balls down the tube using preloaded tube of 20 > - Reconnect magazine to marker > - Release spring to push balls into socket and marker breach > > It's cheap and easy to make 6-10 pre-loading tubes out of PVC and simply > load them with a funnel before the battle. > > For the spring, you could either duplicate the spring provided with the > marker and make it twice as long or buy a replacement spring and place > two springs in the longer tube. > -- -- You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to rctankcombat@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, send email to rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R/C Tank Combat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
