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  • GT
    Automag?
    • Dec 2001
    • 5786

    #1

    metal elbows

    Anyone try these?

    http://cgi.ebay.com/45-DEGREE-ELBOW-...QQcmdZViewItem
    FOR SALE
    on/off, sear, PROConnect
    AGD back bottle asa, laser logo
  • olinar
    mech>electro
    • May 2006
    • 1777

    #2
    id imagine they work pretty good but they look like crap.

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    • m-a-r-k-7
      I less than three myself
      • Oct 2005
      • 279

      #3
      check out the ones from palmers, they look nicer and are probably better made.

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      • Doc Nickel
        Unrepentant Gadget freak

        • Jul 2001
        • 499

        #4
        They've been done before.

        Keep in mind that a plastic elbow on your feed neck is a sort of "fuse". It breaks to keep the gun's feed neck or the loader's neck from breaking.

        A $4 elbow is much cheaper than a new set of HALO shells or having the feed neck pressed back in or rewelded to your gun body.

        Fact of the matter is, 'til somebody redesigns the loader-to-gun attachment method, we're stuck with the legacy thin, fragile feed neck arrangement, which was designed years ago to hold up unpowered, thin plastic 40-round loaders. Today we're using an only slightly beefed-up version, to hold two-pound loaders filled with batteries and motors and another pound of paint, and we're running faster, swinging the gun faster, and taking huge dives and tuck-and-rolls into bunkers.

        I am constantly patching Angel-threaded bodies, when the feed neck strips out. Those bodies don't have the "fuse" of a cheap, replaceable, breakable elbow, so the next weakest point is the thin threads where the neck attaches to the body.

        Doc.

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        • GT
          Automag?
          • Dec 2001
          • 5786

          #5
          Doc,
          Nice post, I never locked at it that way.
          FOR SALE
          on/off, sear, PROConnect
          AGD back bottle asa, laser logo

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          • mag_lover05
            AEQUITAS
            • Jul 2005
            • 970

            #6
            Originally posted by GT
            Doc,
            Nice post, I never locked at it that way.
            me either...but it happened to my friends shocker, so he just covered the feedneck around the outside with JB weld....it hast mooved since

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