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keyler
07-10-2003, 08:03 PM
So after a few months of not playing paintball I decide I want to go check out the newly redone field in Navarre, FL.
So I'm browsing back around the AO forums and I remember the intelliframe hopper feed thingamajig. Cool I think, I'll install that baby and have some bad[b]A[/a] action goin on.

It is about 1pm and I finally decide to get out and head down to radio shack, pictures in hand. I get there and they have the roll toggle switch and the earphone extention cord but the screws and nuts are no where to be found. Lowes is about 3 seconds of a drive away so I head over there. Not bringing the roll toggle with me, I guestimate on the size, buy a few different packs justincase (.83 a piece) and head home. Wrong Size screws =-(
"Oh well", I say, "I'll just pick some up later at Ace Hardware and keep it goin." I went and got some food and crapped around waiting on the traffic to die since it is Blue Angels weekend and I love on the OTHER side of the beach bridge.
So I get home and start working again.
I get everything stripped, spliced, hooked, saudered, saudered again, wrapped in electric tape and I leave for the hardware store, I find some screws that fit the roll toggle (sine I brought it in with me this time) and roll back to my house. It is about 6pm now so I figure I have been working on this for about 4:30 hours. Time to put the screws in, yeah they still fit.
I try and put them through the intellifeed frame's holes but, oh no, the head of it is TOO SMALL!
AHHH! but wait, what is that? mm some super glue

My tired, sweaty, hungry, thristy, lazy arse doesnt want to make another trip in the traffic so I decide to screw it and super glue it on since it wont be comming off anytime soon.
I get the plastic cut, run the wires and screw everything back in. Since my airtank is practically on zero I try and screw it in but I just get a WOOOOSH sound from the bolt. Eh, no problem.

I get the grips back on, everything fits perfectly. "Awesome!" I think to myself. The hopper's wires fit nicely back into place with little if no visibly damage.
I put the hopper on and take the safety off.
I turn the hopper on and put my finger where the laser-eye is to simulate a ball in the hopper. I pull the trigger. Nothing happens. WTFH? Oh well I might have a loose connection somewhere. I pull the grips off and check the roll-trigger.
I push it down but it is barely moving. Odd, I wonder what is wrong. I put it under a magnifying glass and I dont see anything wrong with it. I try a little harder but it doesnt work, so I take a little ice-pick kind of tool and start lightly stabbing at it. I honestly had no clue what that would do and I still don't at this very moment.

I took a hammer and hit the ice-pick once(the dull end was on the roll-trigger) and the little trigger underneath went down. Sweet, we are getting somewhere. WRONG, oh so terribly wrong.
The trigger is now EMBEDDED down in the casing.
I got so pissed off I ripped the cables out of the 2 and 3 connectors and tried to pry the plastic casing off/apart to no avail.
So here I am with a non-functional intelli-frame a hopper with a wire sticking out of it and superglue on two of my fingers.
Wow, this day totally sucked.

ONTO THE PICTURES!




http://personal.bellsouth.net/s/u/suerob19/hopper.jpg http://personal.bellsouth.net/s/u/suerob19/togglefarleft.jpg http://personal.bellsouth.net/s/u/suerob19/togglefarright.jpg
http://personal.bellsouth.net/s/u/suerob19/togglecloseleft.jpg
http://personal.bellsouth.net/s/u/suerob19/togglecloseleft.jpg


SO I hope everyone realizes to CHECK IF IT WORKS BEFORE YOU INSTALL IT stuff is still in effect.

keyler
07-10-2003, 08:07 PM
not my first post here, but on this username.. and when they say superglue boy do they mean it

keyler
07-10-2003, 08:21 PM
*update*


got this thing off, here are some more pics


http://personal.bellsouth.net/s/u/suerob19/framefront.jpg
http://personal.bellsouth.net/s/u/suerob19/frameback.jpg
http://personal.bellsouth.net/s/u/suerob19/switch1.jpg
http://personal.bellsouth.net/s/u/suerob19/switch2.jpg
http://personal.bellsouth.net/s/u/suerob19/switchall.jpg

so yeah, time to start again from scratch tomorrow..

well crap, I forgot I have to sauder more of the hopper wire, but that shouldn't take too long =\\\

nt2004
07-12-2003, 06:56 PM
wasnt this in paintball talk a few days ago?

Catch22
07-13-2003, 10:54 PM
I think you mean SOLDER.

i_baked_cookies
07-15-2003, 03:54 PM
awww man that sucks

i went down to raidoshack, they had everything i needed, i hooked it up to my warp, and it worked, without soldering. haha, i hate soldering

shinobidice
07-16-2003, 08:49 AM
you do know that you arent gonna ever be able to sell that intelli for much cause you just plainly destroyed the probably like new value of it. Why didnt you think to get washers? little metal circles that make the screw head bigger? and you can use them on both sides too! Peple these days just dont think the way they used to...

aut911
07-30-2003, 10:13 AM
hey ill buy that off yah! oh and just so you know now. nailpolish remover takes off super glue.

im sure that could have been usefull before hand.

aut

Benfica4ever
07-30-2003, 10:43 AM
Thanks man now i know how NOT to intelli feed when i get my y-grip:D

ratmonkey
08-03-2003, 11:39 PM
took me all of about 30 mins and i soldered all connections. and if nail polish remover isn't your style they sell ca glue remover at wal-mart.

paintballfreak1527
03-20-2004, 10:06 AM
lol you probaly just ran out of batteries on your revvy

ScatterPlot
03-24-2004, 02:47 PM
lol you probably just didn't check the date :D