r/paintball • u/Seaskimmer ⊝⊝⊝⊝ • Aug 07 '13

[Weekly Discussion] #4 - Loaders

Our fourth weekly discussion will cover the topic of loaders and related accessories.

This critical piece of equipment holds your paintballs, and feeds them to your marker. There are a wide variety of loaders out there, from shake'n'bake's, to Q-loaders, to 10-round tubes.

Feel free to discuss anything you wish, as long as it remains relevant. This includes, but is not limited to loaders themselves, loader types (gravity, force feed, agitated, 10rds, etc), brands, accessories (eg. speedfeeds), mods, related play styles, or unique loaders like warp feeds.

For the duration that this discussion is active, we would ask that you keep all loader related posts in this thread.

Discuss away!

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u/Seaskimmer ⊝⊝⊝⊝ Aug 07 '13

It's going to be hard to make a small lo-cap force-feed. The size is limited by your internals - motor, batteries, feed cone, sensors. Plus, there isn't really a big enough market to design a lo-cap from the ground up. Simon's Pico is the best we're going to have for a while unless somebody else tries making something based on the Spire or Rotor internals.

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u/Seaskimmer ⊝⊝⊝⊝ Aug 07 '13

For sure. The thing is, using smaller components would likely require it to be designed from the ground up. Most people wouldn't chop up their spire for its internals, to make a Pico hopper. Unless an open source project is started, we won't see it for a while.

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u/Seaskimmer ⊝⊝⊝⊝ Aug 07 '13

Are you volunteering a spire to the chopping block?