Problems with Q-loader

[Lohman446]

Ok, one of my Q-pods suffered a fatal incident today, my fault... it wouldnt work... now its broken

The things (all of them) seemed to be loosing prewind during the day, I had eight prewinds and they were tempermetnal as can be, I ended up putting them all to twelve and testing them at home (I did at eight too) and they work good, of course. Just not worth a dang at teh field (where they had eight)

Anyone else have issues with theres, it seems i was toying with it mroe than playing with it

[yaddatrance]

Orph broke the screw inside one pod and Kirk from Ancient
sent a replacement. Call them, they were pretty
enthusiastic about finding out what breaks.

I keep mine at 11 prewinds and it works well. I do
wish the pods held 20 more balls... oh... and I
wish the pods were cheaper... I think 8 pods would
be perfect.

The pods came shipped with 10-11 prewinds... I figure
there's a reason for that.

[Lohman446]

Well.. mine broke after it failed me, and I tossed it onto the ground, then took it apart to fix it and stretched the spring out (and the otuer case was cracked, it was a bad day)... its not really a manufacturer defect. Ill just buy a new one

[Beemer]

Y

Why did it fail?

[barberjohn]

it probably didnt help throwing it on the ground .

[yaddatrance]

Hmm, I've started chucking mine when there's no place to place it near me. No problems doing it so far, but I don't do any crazy hail mary tosses either. I've been keeping an eye out for stress fractures/cracks but I haven't found any.

I do a complete teardown, clean, oil and reassemble after I get home every time I use it though. The innards look like they have very little tolerance for crud/slop/anything.
You won't find these as a rental anytime soon.

I really do miss the materials they made the pre B.E. viewloader hoppers out of... All these new systems use that cheap brittle plastic... I'm on my third Halo shell and it already has little stress spiderwebs on the feedneck.

(edited for clarity)

[Lohman446]

I think 8 prewinds may be too little, I Have put them all to 12 (or 13 or 14 I am easily distracted and counted poorly). I will tell you next week if that works better. It was likley user error (most things that fail on me are user error), and user temper (my bad) that caused my problems

[Lohman446]

And it wasnt normal toss thing... just, it involved the cement floor inside the shop and.... well it had been a long day

[yaddatrance]

Originally posted by Lohman446
I think 8 prewinds may be too little, I Have put them all to 12 (or 13 or

Yeah, I ran one pod at 6 prewinds and it felt really
soft and slushy... Let me know how your winds go...
When I shoot the hopper dry, I usually end up shooting half
the balls in the stack. I'm still worried about it going
splat from the rush of balls when I engage a new pod.

[Lohman446]

The feed tube on mine is only like three inches, and I preload it... and with eight it was sticking, sometiems they wouldnt feed and then Id get a rush of feeding... not sure, was screwed up.

[yaddatrance]

A thought!!!

Oh! I just thought of something... When you reassemble
the pod, make SURE you keep track of that white ball.
It needs to be engaged at the very top of the stack
as it's the only thing keeping the pod pre-wound. If it
isn't in one of the top slots, when you engage to fill,
it will unwind a few turns (And possibly break your
screw as orpheus found out when he tried it)

[Lohman446]

Good thought on that placement, and after I screwed it up the first time I disassembled all of them and redid it.

[trains are bad]

I took the white balls out of all my Qpods.

[Lohman446]

I fixed it to.. I called AGD and ordered a warp.. anyone want a Q loader?

[Altimas]

well if your giving it away I GUESS I'll take it off your hands....hehe