HALO and Warp Feed (tube)

[cphilip]

Originally posted by the123
I'm not too fond of losing capacity of the Halo

You wont lose a darn thing. Its replaced by the fact that the tube going through there is full of balls and offset by the warp's capacity as well. Drilling and passing through has more pluses than minuses. Any water in side your Halo in that area will not cause you any problems like the water in the battery areas of your Warp and Halo by any means. That hole is the least of your worries if its raining.

[raehl]

Erm.. yes it does...

One of the things I like about the WF is I can come over the top of a bunker to shoot without the hopper coming up first and coming down after. Also, when shooting the left side, you have to hold the gun at a 90 degree angle to keep the hopper inside your cover. If the hopper gets higher than your marker, then it's starting to get visible when it wouldn't otherwise be.

- Chris

[cphilip]

Yes! the lower and tighter the better...um...hopper on warps that is.

[raehl]

Alright folks...

Ever post a question and then feel really stupid afterwards? This would be one of those cases.

So I put the halo on the warp feed again and...

I can't figure out what I was thinking about before. What I *THINK* was happening is I was not pushing the halo all the way into the WF (since I hadn't loosed the WF screws to allow the extra large neck to fit in where the rico was) and now that the halo is a half inch lower, it's JUST low enough to allow the feed tube from the WF to the marker to bend around it. Here are the pics:

- Chris

[raehl]

and..

IS there a way to attach more than one at once?

[raehl]

Oh yeah, and ignore my hairy toes up there.

[raehl]

Now...

The tube *IS* still pushing the halo out to the left a bit, so it would still be nice if there were a way to bend in the plastic where the tube is currently being forced to bend around so that the tube could be straight and there wasn't stress between the tube and the halo.

You can see in the first pic how if the halo is a half inch higher the tube doesn't have the space to bend around the halo (since it'd be coming straight out of the connecter into the halo), which was causing the problem I was having before. Now with it a half inch lower from having the neck IN the warp feed, the tube has space to bend.

- Chris

[cphilip]

Yep!!! Know how it feels Chris...Unfortunately. Good picts I see now how they fit now. Looks closer than I would have thought.

ps: Need to get that bruise one the left foot looked at...and a good Pedicure would be nice!

[raehl]

Believe it or not...

That "bruise" is actually the remnants of a bugbite I got about 8 months ago.

The tube is still pushing the HALO out a bit, so I'd like to get maybe a half centimeter deep "dent" in the side where the tube it to provide a little more room. The "stubbyness" of the halo definitely helps though, were it more like the VL with that full volume up on the top-right you couldn't get the tube around it like that.

- Chris

[cphilip]

Yes... I can see now that the HAlO is not a good candidate for "Drilling" and denting is more practacle for that small amount. Good to know.

Bug bite huh? Dang! Sounds like a Spider or something.

[raehl]

The thing is....

Since the HALO plastic is so hard, I'm thinking any heated denting attempts will merely result in melted plastic. I'm thinking maybe I file out a bit of a hole and then reseal it with some combination of paper and duct tape or something. Actually, maybe laminated paper and hot glue.... Hrm....

- Chris

[cphilip]

Re: The thing is....

Originally posted by raehl
...maybe laminated paper and hot glue.... Hrm....

- Chris

You are scaring me now...

[ben_JD]

Has anything come of this process yet? I am now getting antsy trying to figure this one out.

[raehl]

Well..

I managed to get it to work just fine with the wap feed mounted to the left of the tank angled "in" a bit (so front end is closer to the plane of the marker than the back end) and the halo mounted parallel to the marker. Tube clears the HALO battery compartment and gets up to the feed no problem.

I do, however, have a warp feed body - if you ahve a vert feed you're using an elbow with I'm not sure if that setup still works or not.

- Chris

[ben_JD]

I'm trying to envision using this set-up with a warp-feed breech module (e.g. from the Extreme). That would actually require a bigger bend then the warp/power feed that you are using. I think that someone will have to get violent with a Halo hopper in the very near future.