Hmm.. Makeshift Revy?

[personman]

I know it would be easy, but everyones like :
What if you got shot in the motor or What if you got shot and it hit the batterys.
and stuff like that, and ppl are saying 20 bucks for equipment and your time isnt worth it, just buy a used one in the classified. Well, If Im buying a revy, it might as well be new.

[RJR99SS]

ok, i've been up for about 28 hours now, so my judgement may be impaired....but here it goes.

yeah you could do all that work and make it work i'm sure. But i thought the main advantage of having a power loader was that it senses when the hopper needs to be "stirred" and does it automatically.

Now with your setup, you'd shoot just air and realize your hopper needs a little shake so you'd push your little switch right?

Well....wouldnt it be cheaper just to give the gun a little shake with your own two hands....?

Back to my earlier point, the purpose of the powerhoppers is that they sense when there isnt going to be a ball going into the gun and prevent that from happening right? in your setup you'd find out the hard way it needs adgitated then go through a complex series of electrical motors and batteries and mountings....etc to stir it up; when you can just shake that sucker with your god given paintball hopper agitators right?

hope that made sense....

[Dealaman]

Why?

Why would you want to put the switch on the grip instead of the hopper?

[personman]

cause if was on the hopper you would have to take your hand off the mag and hold the button down on the hopper

[Mossman]

alrihgt, listen. the problem with your idea is that revies work by them selves, when you fire fast enough to clear the balls in your feed neck with out giving them a chance to fall down on their own. this is precisely the time you dont want to be pressing a button. i think if you got a nice small quiet motor that can handle 9v....put it maybe facing upright, and shooting balls down the feed neck, and you could leave it on all round that might be cool. except, what does this thing do with a full hopper when theres no room to toss balls around. It either stalls, creating heat and im guessing bad for the motor, or breaks balls probably. maybe you could just turn it on after 1/3 of your hopper is gone...or maybe make the fins that knock balls skinny, so they will agitate but not hurt balls. seems like it would be fun at least.

here are some good places to get motors

look there

http://www.mpja.com/

or....

http://www.excess-solutions.com/12vdc_fans3.htm#118MM

hope i helped

[Mossman]

wait a sec! that got me thinking....what about just a regular computer fan motor...... take off the box but leave those prong thingies and secure it down by those. then file down the fan blades maybe, i like using zip ties or something, and run it off a 9v with some kind of a resistor? a few AAs in series? i dont really know, but not as fast as it would normally run at a 9v (they do anywhere from 2000-7000 RPMs, and thats at 12v.

[BEEFYSAUSAGE]

ok

dude now your getting adventurous..just buy a java agi hopper and save your self troubble..

[animal]

A computer fan just wouldn't have the torque to turn with the weight of the balls.

By the time you figure it all out you could've worked to buy your own older VL rev.

[z_mann_z]

I have made a pseudo revvy.....

I have made two out of 45 rd. hoppers for a guys nasty phoon once. I took some small motors and mounted them with sheet metal and a modified 12 volt blade in each one. Battery was mounted between the two, meaning both were connected. Used a trigger activated switch.

[BEEFYSAUSAGE]

LOL

45 round agi ...lol....thats goto be a waste of time..
well now it is but years ago it would have been super hi tec
with 40 rnd guppies(loaders).
ah nastalga..i love it
BEEFY.

[z_mann_z]

Actually they are kind of handy...

I will soon get around to making a few as well as some three hundred round hoppers. on my micromag, a forty round hopper would be perfect for when I play front. And I am building a couple of homemade "Proflex" 300 round hoppers for playing rec.

[Mossman]

i made one using a computer fan. works great when theres like 30 balls in hopper, but too high speed, too low torque. gonna order one soon...trying to figure out what I want. Im thinking about 6v (if I can find it, so its like 4 in series AA batteries, and 600-1000 RPM.

guys, got an idea.

you think you could make a zap like loader with a few pager motors that make pagers and cell phones vibrate. there tiny little motors that need around 1.5v (AA, AAA, C, or D battery), and there off center so they vibrate. I would love to run like 4 of em all around if they did a good job vibrating, try to intellifeed it so it gave the hopper a nice shake between every shot

[bubba]

ok if you take a servo off of a rc car ill give you one and there a stoper in side to make it go the oppisite way when you turn but all you do is take it out and ywhen you turn the loader on it will run all the time to help currurlate the balles bvetter which will in turn feed balls faster

[personman]

Heh.. I bought the Revy last night people..

[BEEFYSAUSAGE]

ok

Now wasent that easer??