force loaded paint

[havokrooster]

the other tank was an arctic cat. this will be made from a ford aerostar minivan. we are hooked on tankin man. it brings so much to the team. we did shoot alot of paint @ bastogne. but i think thats becasue we were instantly engaging right after pullin out of base. we basically pulled out the driveway, parked up on the house and just went to way laying everything that moved. so much fun.

i think we will take 2 water jugs and mount them in the turret close and level to the twin markers. and butcher a couple cheap electro hoppers, put the agitators in the throat of the jugs. have a warp feed them straight into the marker breaches. i dont know. trial and error i guess. which is why i started this thread. to see if any yall tankers have done something similiar. we had problems when we had to refill from pods on the fly.we would literally run through 10 loaded pods in about 15 mins.

[warpedx]

Can someone draw up a quick mspaint or post a pic of the marker setup you're trying to reload? I'll be able to give better ideas if I can see it.

[havokrooster]

its basically two rt tippman 98's. they are mounted via u clamps to the barrell on a axle bar that lets them tilt up and down. its just 2 rt tippmann 98's side by side. real simple. occasionally, we will just put an ion up there, when we are trying to be conservative.

[MrWizard]

Marks Tank used two large tupperware containers with a modified (top cut off) motorized loaders mounted in the bottom of each. Holding about 1500 rounds each the output reached the markers via warp feed tubing you can buy online. Some copper tubing adapters and epoxy make the system solid. BTW, Peaches designed and built all this stuff himself. Behind that cool unemotional exterior lurks the mind of a mad scientist....

I'm copying this for the new tanks since 1) it works and 2) its reliable and 3) its cheaper than any other solution.

[socoj2]

Originally Posted by MrWizard

Marks Tank used two large tupperware containers with a modified (top cut off) motorized loaders mounted in the bottom of each. Holding about 1500 rounds each the output reached the markers via warp feed tubing you can buy online. Some copper tubing adapters and epoxy make the system solid. BTW, Peaches designed and built all this stuff himself. Behind that cool unemotional exterior lurks the mind of a mad scientist....

I'm copying this for the new tanks since 1) it works and 2) its reliable and 3) its cheaper than any other solution.

Great,,, but get back to Soldering!

[crooked butt doctor]

Originally Posted by socoj2

4 feet vertical is a long haul for a warp feed, I seriously doubt its going to be able to push that.

that was my main concern... what if... and this is if money isn't a major issue... you could keep that design... but integrate another warp feed halfway up the line. that way warp feed #1 just feed up against gravity to warp feed #2. warp feed #2 feeds the marker... voila! 5gal of paintballs force fed against gravity.

[KEEG]

I've seen a flat gas tank from a portable generator mounted over the top of 2 guns. It was slightly tilted forwards (or backwards) and had 2 semi-rigid tubes tubes coming out of the bottom.

Low profile, easy to fill and easy to clean. Not too expensive either, about 16-20 bucks at Northern Tool. I think it held about 1400 - 1600 rounds.

Just a thought.

[Mr.Aggsauce]

didnt take the time to read everyone elses posts so i dunno if this has been stated before....

the thing about warpfeeds is.. yeah they can feed fairly well up the 6in tube they come w/ but much longer than that the paint stack gets too heavy and the wheels of the warpfeed will just spin and not feed.

like i think i saw warpedx say a regular force loader like a halo would have enough power to work well. take the internals outta a halo shell and cuut a hole in the bottem of your bucket and put the halo internals at the bottem. then just hook up an elbow and your tubing to the feedneck.

it should work.

our qloader got too much of a hassel last time i used it so i just hooked a velocity up to the 2 or so feet of tubing we had. it worked well until our gun started crapping out.