first game with Micromag AND q-loader

[SanDiegoMag]

Hey now, it WAS mine once too! Im glad he gets good use out of it. Im almost regretting selling it to him but its a good thing that he uses a qloader.

[the larch]

First. Thank you VERY much for the praise of my marker in the above pics. I made the grips myself, and when I refine them, I will probably offer them on AO.

Second. No offense to those who complain about reload time off the field, but WHO CARES. This thing has NO PROFILE ON THE FIELD. You can put it anywhere if you are creative, it loads faster than you can possibly shoot and there are NO batteries or circuit boards.
THIRD. Once again, no offense to those who complain about pod size, but I would rather think every now and then about the number of paintballs left than CONSTANTLY think about how big of a target the BLIMP on the top of my marker is. If you are going to make a move, toss in a new pod. If you cant do it in 100 rounds, you cant do it in a 1000.
The only valid discussion on this thing is it's physical reliability and consistancy.
This type of loader (not necessarily the Q) is the future of paintballl IMHO. Marker manufacturers need to seriously look at making BOTTOM feed markers for this type of feed system.

[Empyreal Rogue]

I was being sarcastic :) Did you watch the clip?

I'm betting if I adjust that setup in the pic, I can fill a pod with paint in about 15 seconds. The clip is me winding the pod left handed (I'm right handed) while trying to point it at the camera.

Well, I didn't watch the clip. :\

I guess 'difficult' isn't the right word but awkward is a better word. The silo isn't aggitated and there's no funnel at the bottom, makes it somewhat annoying. At least it's that way for jwalker and myself.

SanDiegoMag, he's enjoying the MicroMag, trust me.

[jwalker87]

don't worry; im taking good care of it.

[chris99506]

almost everyone that i hear bad things about the q-loader from, doesnt have one. i just got mine and a few of my friends have one. and we are all very happy with it. i'd rather deal with 100 ball capacity than deal with hopper hits and lids breaking and batteries. and out shooting my hopper.
no loader is perfect, but the q-loader is the closets thing so far.

[jwalker87]

I agree. Though it's interesting that most of what I knew of the qloader before I got one was based on this really good review, done by an average joe, who bought one. He said that his first day of playing was, at first, plagued with problems with his qloader, but after he figured it out, it worked bodaciously. I just find it odd that, right out of the box, mine worked like a charm. The main modifications I would make to the qloader are:

1) motorized silo; feeding paintballs from the silo into the tube is the most annoying aspect of the qloader by far (not loading the pods; getting the paintballs from the silo to the tube)

2) more durable pods. I don't know how they would do this, but I'm constantly fearing I'll break one of them.

3) make it harder to load the pods incorrectly. It's fairly easy to stick the pod in half an inch off, and have to spend 5 seconds getting it back out again.


THis is, though, as many have said, the first of its kind, and I believe it will spark a revolution in hopper design.

[Naby]

GoatBoy, love the sound effect in the clip :)

[jwalker87]

hey GoatBoy, I just watched your clip. I'll have to try using a hopper to refill the q-pod; looks like it works a hell of a lot better than the silo

[tjmpaintball06]

Yea, the hopper would be the better choice.

[GoatBoy]

Naby: Thanks. I thought it was a little bland without any accompanying audio, so I thought I'd spice it up a little.

jwalker87: The best way that I can see to make it work is to get yourself a short, firm, clear tube (or maybe an opaque tube with a window slot cut in it for viewing) and make it sort of like a high-rise for the hopper to sit on. This gives the hopper a little bit of a buffer to work with while you wind, and it give you the user the ability to know if you need to stop winding so you don't get gaps in the feed. I think if you set something like this up, you should be able to reload pods at nearly the full speed of the hopper. My problem in the video is that the halogen lamp and weird angle I was holding the thing at were causing glare, plus I was using black paint, so I was having a hard time spotting breaks in the paint feed... so I had to kind of wind it slowly.


It makes you wonder why AIC didn't offer a solution like this. It's probably a little backwards to recommend using a hopper to fill a hopper, but it's better than offering the Silo as a solution. Everyone should have a backup hopper; why not put it to use?



Which then makes me wonder... what could I use the Silo for? *Imagines mounting the Silo on top of his gun for 500 rounds of non-agitated power!* Nah. I'd probably use it as a beverage dispenser.




Edit: Just thought of something... maybe you could get one of those clear spyder straight feed adapters that they use on the vert-feeds.

[jwalker87]

hey, i have one of those! maybe it would work...

[Archangel-6]

Qloader setup....I do own an Automag, but....

Heres a pic of mine on my WG65 I'm still setting this up, and have yet to play with it tho....

[jwalker87]

man that looks sweet! Put some pictures up of the whole marker though. The only problem I can see with that is that it looks like you used the qpod to mount it by; this means that you won't be able to reload. Maybe I'm seeing it wrong though. You should mount it by the adapter, not the pod.

[Archangel-6]

The socket is mounted through the magwell housing using the same technique as the Qloader comes default. The front bracket is a prototype, there is no pressure on the pod, it slides in, and out. The bracket was designed to flip forward, and the pod to drop out, but the barrel extension hinders this.

I'm working on a billet swivel type bracket that will swivel to the side for pod removal/install. As of now all that needs to be done is unlock the pod/socket twist the barrel 1/4 turn, and remove/replace the pod..etc it involves as much time as reloading a conventional hopper.

The gun is not complete so I only posted the neat part I'm waiting for my curved 30rnd mag mod, and airsource hardline mod before I post everything. I am doing writeups for these mods that will be posted on www.Calstrategies.com

Here is a pic of how it mounts in the magwell housing

[jwalker87]

man thats crazy custom