Ultimate Gravity Hopper

[XSiv Force]

Here is a problem i can see with the channels....what if by any chance you get an oblong ball that jams in the channel? Other than that i cant think of anything off the top of my head i'll think about it some more!

P.S. Sniper vs. Ferret generally leaves one alive and the other scattered in pieces over the ground at a 1000 paces

[Celtic]

Originally Posted by slim and shady

well ferret seems to have the critisize part down so I will give you a sugestion. mhy not try one single coiled tube?

I like that idea the only thing is how man pbs would be able to fit inside?

Originally Posted by XSiv Force

Here is a problem i can see with the channels....what if by any chance you get an oblong ball that jams in the channel? Other than that i cant think of anything off the top of my head i'll think about it some more!

P.S. Sniper vs. Ferret generally leaves one alive and the other scattered in pieces over the ground at a 1000 paces

Maybe by making each channel a mm or 2 bigger than the actually pbs

[slim and shady]

Im not sure I would assume it would be a considerable amount less probably 75 or so if you were lucky as you would have to have fairly wide bends to it. More I think about it probably not do-able at all.

[DFSniper]

Originally Posted by ferret15

umm the a-5 cyclone doesn't use the air for that. the air is used to push a piston that turns a ratchet that turns the paddles. even the the modification for the sleeve that piston moves in have been modified to exhaust the air so that the cyclone can feed faster with out having to deal with the back pressure of the air after the cyclone has done its job.

-1 for DF

-1 for ferret. i was referring how the a5 uses excess air to power the hopper. i know how the cyclone feed works...

Originally Posted by Celtic

as i mentioned before, Archon Tacamo hopper:

[ferret15]

Originally Posted by DFSniper

-1 for ferret. i was referring how the a5 uses excess air to power the hopper. i know how the cyclone feed works...


as i mentioned before, Archon Tacamo hopper:

I have the tacomo hopper and it sits in my parts box.

but the a-5 doesn't use the air to popcorn the balls.

[paintballkid0206]

Originally Posted by DFSniper

-1 for ferret.

its down to -2... wait...

-3

is the Archon hopper actually using the excess air? or am i looking at the picture weird? and it seems like Celtic's design is much like the Archon hopper, just a little more complicated. and that paintballs are coming to the feedneck from the left, right, AND center.

[slim and shady]

Originally Posted by ferret15

but the a-5 doesn't use the air to popcorn the balls.

I think he clairified that already The idea he was getting out there was for THIS new design to use air to popcorn the balls.

[DFSniper]

Originally Posted by paintballkid0206

its down to -2... wait...

-3

is the Archon hopper actually using the excess air? or am i looking at the picture weird? and it seems like Celtic's design is much like the Archon hopper, just a little more complicated. and that paintballs are coming to the feedneck from the left, right, AND center.

the archon hopper just funnels the paint a little better so that it doesnt jam going into the feedneck, and it stops the blowback from pushing the paint back up into the hopper, which causes chops.

[bigred76]

The hopper with the air ratchet for Spyders and the A5's Cyclone both use the excess air to spin an impeller. How does not matter as they both achieve the same end.

[Celtic]

Ok what about a light suction system? say you had a air tight hopper and as a ball left the feedneck suction pulled another down?