Your experience with Reballs (or imitations)

[xero28]

So, I'm looking at getting some reballs (or an imitation reball). What has been your experience with the real thing and/or something generic? Is there any difference between the two? What are the best for the money (links, brands, etc)? I've got some of the velcro balls, but those don't really feed that well and I just wanted something that I could fully test the limits of my Classic RT or Pneumag. It would mainly just be for messing around, not game practice or anything. Let me know what you're thoughts/experiences are.

Thanks.

[vf-xx]

my biggest problem with them is that they're smaller than any paint. And they tend to jam up my loaders.

Don't think you're going to be able to fully test the limits of high speed marker with them.

[BiNumber3]

Hmm, I've been meaning to try reballs too, what kind of loader do you use vf-xx? Wonder if my Fasta might have fewer problems due to design

[vf-xx]

Jams up my reloader.

Works ok in my Apache.

Haven't really tried it in my revvy.

[StygShore]

stay away from the imitations, A-balls, Rufus balls, etc all work for crap

Reballs work better but not great, seems an agitated hopper like a apache, revvy work better with them. My halo and prophecy are deffinately a no go with them

The Pinokio should work good though based on its design - anyone test this?


Styg

[om3n]

stay away from the imitations, A-balls, Rufus balls, etc all work for crap

Reballs work better but not great, seems an agitated hopper like a apache, revvy work better with them. My halo and prophecy are deffinately a no go with them

The Pinokio should work good though based on its design - anyone test this?


Styg

agreed about prophecy, mine jams when trying to shoot at any speeds with rufus balls.

[drg]

You can make it work with various halos if you have the right cone. I bet a freeway would help too. Mine works fine and full speed with the stock cone, but jams with a delrin cone I have (I think NDZ). I think more fins on the cone is better.

[BiNumber3]

so actual "reballs" are the way to go? no comparable or better brands?

[d4m4don3]

You can make it work with various halos if you have the right cone. I bet a freeway would help too. Mine works fine and full speed with the stock cone, but jams with a delrin cone I have (I think NDZ). I think more fins on the cone is better.

I thought it was because of friction (they're rubbery)? A more advanced cone hugs the ball better and puts more force on the reballs causing them to hug the the catch cup feednecks walls causing friction thereby slowing/jamming the hopper. I know a couple of brick and mortar shops that use them for testing, the balls are smaller so when the marker chrono's at 300 fps on a 14 inch barrell it should equal to ballpark 275-285.

[y0da900]

I've come to like generic ones that I buy on ebay from the user Fotonutt. They're a very realistic size and quite robust, I use them for all of my prototype testing. I've gotten two batches from him over a year apart and the old ones were almost identical in size and weight to the current (blue, pictured) batch.


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[drg]

I thought it was because of friction (they're rubbery)? A more advanced cone hugs the ball better and puts more force on the reballs causing them to hug the the catch cup feednecks walls causing friction thereby slowing/jamming the hopper. I know a couple of brick and mortar shops that use them for testing, the balls are smaller so when the marker chrono's at 300 fps on a 14 inch barrell it should equal to ballpark 275-285.

No, the jams are actual ball offset type jams, so I think the wider spaces in a cone that has fewer fins allows more ball misalignment, causing outright jamming.

[fishmishin]

My pinokio feeds reballs and vballs fine. As a note reballs are supposed to be cleaned and lubed after each use to help from preventing jams. Most places don't really adhere to that, but it is what is suppose to be done for optimal performance.

Some lube may help with the ball offset type jams that drg was speaking of.

[drg]

I think real reballs should not need lube of any sort ... that's part of the deal with genuine reballs

[rdb123]

When the reball advertisement videos with Max Lundquist were released, he said to break maybe 3 paintballs and mix the fill in with the reballs to lightly lubricate them. Everyone forgets to do this.

You should be able to find those videos somewhere on YouTube.

[phill7]

reballs

i have the real reballs not the imatations they are great they never need lube and you never really have any jams maybe wonce in a wial there great tho i use them all the time