metal elbows

[GT]

Anyone try these?

http://cgi.ebay.com/45-DEGREE-ELBOW-ADAPTER-SP8-EMAG-SPYDER-SHOCKER-PMI_W0QQitemZ170115662489QQihZ007QQcategoryZ71157Q QrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[olinar]

id imagine they work pretty good but they look like crap.

[m-a-r-k-7]

check out the ones from palmers, they look nicer and are probably better made.

[Doc Nickel]

They've been done before.

Keep in mind that a plastic elbow on your feed neck is a sort of "fuse". It breaks to keep the gun's feed neck or the loader's neck from breaking.

A $4 elbow is much cheaper than a new set of HALO shells or having the feed neck pressed back in or rewelded to your gun body.

Fact of the matter is, 'til somebody redesigns the loader-to-gun attachment method, we're stuck with the legacy thin, fragile feed neck arrangement, which was designed years ago to hold up unpowered, thin plastic 40-round loaders. Today we're using an only slightly beefed-up version, to hold two-pound loaders filled with batteries and motors and another pound of paint, and we're running faster, swinging the gun faster, and taking huge dives and tuck-and-rolls into bunkers.

I am constantly patching Angel-threaded bodies, when the feed neck strips out. Those bodies don't have the "fuse" of a cheap, replaceable, breakable elbow, so the next weakest point is the thin threads where the neck attaches to the body.

Doc.

[GT]

Doc,
Nice post, I never locked at it that way.

[mag_lover05]

Doc,
Nice post, I never locked at it that way.

me either...but it happened to my friends shocker, so he just covered the feedneck around the outside with JB weld....it hast mooved since :)