Is there such thing as a goood loader?

[kopfjaeger]

I bought Empire loaders as gifts for Christmas. I bought 3 reloader A, 3 reloader 2, and 1 reloader B. Every single one of them broke within the 1st 2 games (mild play) we played. I like the sound activation of Empire loaders, but they just are not built to withstand paintball. I have also been through various Viewloaders and they too are crap. Is there anybody out there that makes decent shells for any of these loaders? I know Viewloader used to make good shells before they sold out to Brass Eagle so I know it can be done. Is there any company out there that makes a durable loader? I am to the point of wanting to make my own.

By the way, Empire's customer support absolutely sucks. My opinion of this company is that they have good ideas, very poor quality construction, and crappy customer service. It is amazing that a company like this can exist.

[Big Boy]

The Pulse.

In one of these videos (don't remember which) he uses it to drive in a nail

VID: http://media.putfile.com/Pulse-Video-1st

http://youtube.com/watch?v=exlVFu92nsA

(twoards the end of this video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8FDPi4eeC8

[Tao]

I bought Empire loaders as gifts for Christmas. I bought 3 reloader A, 3 reloader 2, and 1 reloader B. Every single one of them broke within the 1st 2 games (mild play) we played. I like the sound activation of Empire loaders, but they just are not built to withstand paintball. I have also been through various Viewloaders and they too are crap. Is there anybody out there that makes decent shells for any of these loaders? I know Viewloader used to make good shells before they sold out to Brass Eagle so I know it can be done. Is there any company out there that makes a durable loader? I am to the point of wanting to make my own.

By the way, Empire's customer support absolutely sucks. My opinion of this company is that they have good ideas, very poor quality construction, and crappy customer service. It is amazing that a company like this can exist.

Yes the pulse, they hade it with the features that are lacking on any other loader in mind: good quality materials (plolycarbonate, same as what your gogle lenses are made of),

easy to clean

and feeds 40bps (yet to be proven but they claim its feed system is way faster responding that sound activation.

I think it costs about as much as a halo too $150 us.

[Lohman446]

And you have to buy a $30 board to make it work right in every setting. If you just push the on button when you run to the center and need your marker you have to pause and press it just right to get the red light system on....

Stupid loader....

yeh, it works good though....

[StygShore]

I was just going to ask for a review on the Pulse since some of the hype has died down, and there have been reports of a bunch breaking over on PeeweeNation.


Styg

[rkjunior303]

I've used nothing but Reloader B's and they've been tanks.. Aside from cutting the necks, they've been PERFECT.. When one of them DID act up, I got an RMA from Empire within a day and it was sent in. They fixed it FOR FREE and even rebuilt it for me (cone, springs, etc).

Empire FTW.

[BigEvil]

Cant beat a Halo with an APE board in it....

[maddboy32]

i got one thing to add, it starts with a Q and ends with a -LOADER.

[neppo1345]

Yeah, I've never had any problems with my reloader as long as I've owned it...

Bad batches?

Who knows.

[Big Boy]

My shell broke on my halo when I first got it, but I bought a new shell for it and it's been great since then.

[Lohman446]

My reloaders tended to crack after a year or so of HARD use. I tend to abuse equipment and never saw a catastrophic failure though

[iambored]

soft shell rvvy's are good. but must say that i've never used nor needed anything faster than a revvy so that's about all that I've used that's anygood.

[wjr]

i got one thing to add, it starts with a Q and ends with a -LOADER.

I wasn't such a fan of mine. To much of a hassle IMO.

But my old empire reloader has never given me problems... I've had it for about three or mabye four years and its never once broken (the shell did once, but never the electronics).

If you really want reliability, use a gravity fed hopper.

[SR_matt]

you have broken all of those hoppers the first 2 games you used every one.

first you might be over tightening your feedneck.
second how ahrd are you playing? i had an original reloader (original meaning before the revy style shells had the empire logo on them. they started to ge some stress cracks from using them so much so i epoxied all over the inside where the cracks were and that held for almsot a year longer. the last straw on it was when the battery door grove broke streight out but that was after 3 years of use.

i havent used the stock reloader shells but they are basicaly the same as the halo ones and the most comon reason for any breaks were over tighteing of the feedneck.

i cant believe that you went through all of those hoppers that quickly unless its user error (no offfence)

-matt

[Lenny]

What I've learned is when dealing with Revvies (my personal favorite), ALWAYS buy a soft shell for it (if you can find them). They last a helluva lot longer than the stock shells.

Ricochets are good, too. Probably my second favorite loader.

But then, I've never had problems with a QLoader before...

Or a Halo...

There are lots of good loaders out there.