chopping problems, got an idea

[dirtywyrm]

this happened to me while back with my dark ir3, could happen with a speed too, I first got my halo I was in a hurry to get into the next game I sanded it down forever, then I spun it on, gun was a blender, switched to a different gun and played the rest of the day.


when I got home to clean up the messy ir3 I noticed something when I dropped paint into the feed tube, the balls hung halfway in the breech, I had accidently screwed my feed tube into the gun causing the bottom part of the feed to to curve in on itself, luckly I got the feed tube fixed and the problem went away.

but before I fixed it the gun would shoot okay till the hoppers tension on the paint was gone, short bursts it would shoot fine, but the second I ripped past the intial 5 or 6 balls that had the pressure from the paddle pushing them, then I would start chopping...

make any sense?

late
wyrm

[Emmit]

are you trying to say you bent the entire feed tube?:confused:

[dirtywyrm]

not the entire feed tube just the very bottom, screwed it in too far and the body curved the bottom inwards, causing it to make the bottom of the feed neck barrely big enough for some of the bigger paints too fall, just an idea that some people might need to check if they have a blender for a speed.

[Duckcall]

im lost u bent the feed tubs some how

[Emmit]

I guess I'm just having a hard time believing that unless your He-Man you actually bent the feed tube, even the bottom half

[tyronne]

what do you bench !!!

[RaistlinsLegacy]

u sure there were no vice grips involved?

[MoogLe]

Originally posted by Emmit
I guess I'm just having a hard time believing that unless your He-Man you actually bent the feed tube, even the bottom half

haha emmit, i think i understand what he's saying, i dont think he means he bent the feedneck, i think he means , you know the feedneck threads in the body, on the bottom the part where the threading stops, i think he means he forced the bottom of the feedneck to kinda go over that and bend a bit inwards,

hope that made sense, but yea i dont see that happening before the threads stripping but it might be possible

[dirtywyrm]

Moogle understands, it happened on my dark ir3, I've seen it a few times, it stripped the threads on my gatefeed, luckly it was silver and I replaced it with a matching new one.

I've seen this a few times and on some its almost unnoticable, but if your using a bigger paint say 690, it will catch paint when the hopper doesn't have enough in the stack to force the balls through.

[KEN CRANE]

it happens in most cases when players twist their hopper on becuse its tight.when you twist it on it keeps threading further down and mushrooms the bottem of the feed inwards.making the hole smaller.hope that helps

[Duckcall]

i understand now thanks for clearing up guys

[dirtywyrm]

yeah I did it to my ir3 last year, and just figure maybe that could be the cause of other peoples speeds being blenders.

[KEN CRANE]

rocky had it happen to him in miami only 1 out of 3 balls would feed.cant shoot many bad guys that way.