My hopper Exploded!

[gungrave253]

okay i got my viking on saturday and dryfired it til i was out of air thinking that i could get more on sunday. well the stores were closed on sunday so i had to wait to shoot paint through it til today. so i get home with my full air tank, put everything on and the i find out my hopper turns on but doesnt seem to want to spin. i was like wtf? because this had happend before like month ago. si i go inside to take it apart, too the battery out then smoke was comin out from inside. i took it apart and now cannot get it to work. i can get the motor to spin when i turn it on and off but when i try to trigger it to spin it doesnt work. so after using my new hopper only 4 times its now garbage and im goin to pick up a blue halo to match my blue viking. which will put me 120 dollars further into debt.


oh and i forgot to say the broken hopper was a ricochet ak and was a piece of junk. i would recomend it to noone. i have played with a friends 12 volt revvy and a egg and both are far superior to the ak. i hated it.

thanx for letting me get out my gripe.

[RT pRo AuToMaG]

lesson learned, don't buy a ricochet!

Lol, but seriously dude, that sucks that it broke. Try calling up teh factory and see if they will fix it. Most companies with good warrenties will fix it.

[Mag Master 04]

gotta do what u gotta do i guess... we all have those days man, hopw u have better luck with yur halo

[Automaggin2]

Check the motor, you my have gotten something tangled around the paddle to cause the motor to freeze up and fry.

[ICOM]

wires crossed, something just wasnt put together right.....?

[notcreative]

call richochet factory first they will fix it for you they are pretty good techs and all.

But you got a halo.......................Guess what halos burn there motors up more often then any other hopper but just like richochet they got great techs to.

[SpecialBlend2786]

I got my AK fixed for free.

Halo's have been known to catch on fire........

[Steelrat]

A viking with anything other than a halo is a crime.

[lord1234]

A viking with anything other than a halo is a crime.


says the man who broke a revvy in his own AKA product.....

[Steelrat]

Which proves my point ;) You know its bad when im shooting pieces of my revy out the barrel.

[Tron]

Did you overload the thing? I always see people jamming paintballs in their hoppers and either breaking paint or finding out it wont spin for some strange reason. :rolleyes:

[BlackVCG]

All you have to do is call up the Ricochet factory and they will have the new parts to you in the mail the next day. They are that good.

[SpecialBlend2786]

All you have to do is call up the Ricochet factory and they will have the new parts to you in the mail the next day. They are that good.
Yep, thats exactly what happened :)

[edweird]

yeah one think I can never say bad about Rico is their customer service...

heck its even easier for me since they are up the road about 3/4 of a mile

[tribalman]

if you wanna get away from ak's, can i buy it off you, i personly love those things. plus i'm going to try and mod my own hopper, but i don't wanna ruin my ak, so if i had a shell and some parts, i could make my own. pm me if u wanna sell it.