>> Building reliable paintball feed that fits within the scale confines of a >> model is one of the biggest PITA's in the hobby THE biggest, I think. Why do you think they should be exempt from hits ? It just seems like more grounds for debate about valid hits. If you have the skill to build a small hopper then you should benefit from your skill. If you want to take the quicker, easier, route of using stock parts than you should enjoy the fruits of that decision, too. I'm opposed to all hit exemptions. Except maybe shooting the operator. - Doug
----- Original Message ----- From: "TyngTech" <steve...@gmail.com> To: "rctankcombat" <rctankcombat@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 3:50:26 PM Subject: Re: [TANKS] Re: "Small Fry" lives 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 . -- -- 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.
