smaller feedneck helps prevent overfeeding?

[brokenleg]

someone suggested to me in another forum that a slightly smaller feedneck might help in curing yet another minute bit of forcefeed caused double feeding... i suppose it makes sense n as much as the top ball would have less room to move forward... anyways, it seems like the stock neck is almost as small as possible, and i was wondering if anyone who had a CCM, Check-it or other brand feedneck could check and see if it is tighter than the stock one...?

[snoop]

umm... i dont think that would be a big issue because the only difference would be if their was less force, and the way i see it it would have to be a much longer feedneck???

make sense or am i talking out my arse??

[brokenleg]

makes sense, and i' might just rig something up for §§§§s and giggles to see if lengthening the hell out of a Reloader b fixes any of the overfeeding. probably will look pretty funny...
still what i see as legitimate in this idea of less diameter in the feedneck is that there are two conditions that create over feeding... 1. the chambered ball rolling back and 2. the next ball in the neck moving forward and down... if you eliminate a little bit of width in the feedneck you would eliminate a tiny amount of space that the top ball has to poke down... when i say tiny amount, understand that i am talking about a mm or less... but every little bit counts, right?
i just figured i'd buy a new neck eventually anyways and might as well see if there is a tighter one available. i get about 4 breaks per 500 balls out of a reloader B on 2...
i am aware of all the problems associated with Bs, but I also know that many people use them on speeds with zero complaints. I am just trying to work out the variables.

or i could just start shooting really big paint...

[snoop]

true... feednecks have a lot of extra space.. try it out :)

[Klassy Guy]

I don't think it will because the halo/reloader senses when to stop feeding, and adding more space in the neck will not prevent the electronic eye or microphone. There will always be the same amount of pressure on the paintballs (when there are decent batteries in) adding space will just add more paintballs over the feedneck. This is just from my point of view though.

[brokenleg]

I don't think it will because the halo/reloader senses when to stop feeding, and adding more space in the neck will not prevent the electronic eye or microphone. There will always be the same amount of pressure on the paintballs (when there are decent batteries in) adding space will just add more paintballs over the feedneck. This is just from my point of view though.
ummm... i'm talking about using a smaller diameter feed tube... read the post... the problem with reloaders and halos isn't the amount of pressure as much as it is an issue of the bolt hitting the second ball in line and fracturing it so that it breaks in the barrel... i know this is the case because it doesn't happen in other open bolt guns that have a means of preventing roll-back... have you ever held a reloader and put your hand over the neck and tapped it? the most pressure a B can exert is only enough to hurt the most brittle of paintballs... when the bolt smacks it on the bottom and sends it back up the tube into it's pretensioned followers is when the problems start occuring... it is a painfully clear design flaw that hasn't been addressed until the uber pricey G7 fixed it once and for all...

[shaq787]

well i do see how a smaller feedneck will stop the ball from rolling foward and being exposed to the bolt, but the seccond ball does depress into the ball on the bottom sometimes. basically the seccond ball is sitting inside the first ball and is knicked then. i now use an egg II and it has eliminated the problem its a cheaper alternative. ill take the ROF hit to make sure the paint hits the enemy and not oozes out of the barrel.

[Talfuchre]

Also - reloaders don't know when to stop. They just feed as much as they 'hear' they need to.

TF

[tgaffner]

Just so you know No-Pro's will not even thread into the Marker.

[Klassy Guy]

The first post didn't say smaller DIAMETER, smaller could be taken as shorter too, don't spazz, anyways a smaller diamter feedneck may help, but I would just get an egg2 and do the impeller mod, its the safe reliable way.