Homemade cyclone feed!!

ms2013 wrote: have fun chopping paint. the cyclone works only because it rotates only when fired. exactly when fired. if you can do that, and get it spin once, for whatever the rotation is, good job. john.

Actually the cyclone spins when the bolt retracts. And it doesnt need to be exact. The sprockets rotate by spring power, not by air. The air pushes the ratchet in place, then when the gas is let off, the spring return rotates the sprockets.

Wouldnt chop if you made it wrong at all. Does your a5 chop when you push the manual feed plunger when the bolt is closed? No, it just puts a bit of pressure on the ball, and finishes rotating when the bolt clears.

And to the dude that said the cyclone patent only covers blowback power, try again. If you look up the patent number on the bottom of the cyclone, you get the patent for the factory f/a, which used spring power.


Edited by Enos Shenk

See, I was right, pic of dennis, and prototype for the 98:

http://www.warpig.com/paintball/technical/loaders/tipp_force /index.shtml

there its is how they hooked up the gas is where the little nub is where you would hook up the hose line for the response trigger

have fun they wont get mads unless u make money off it

oh yeh u dont need to make a homemade one u can find a new cyclone in classifieds cause some people that bought a-5s early in production bought a better cyclone that keeps up better

 

on a personal note I BROKE 100

Edited by SPtippmann98

There is a pic somewhere of Dennis with a cyclone on a 98. I remember first hearing about the cyclone system, and I swear I heard it was for the 98, but they put it on the A5.

Go for it.

try it. if you want tell us how it turned out.

You can do what you want.  They only patenized it so other companies wouldnt do it.  You could make your own,  your not selling them.  Even if you did sell it to some one I wouldnt think you got in trouble.

If someone comes up wit a better feeder system(similiar to the A5's) fer the 98c's, jus make sure it doesnt suck up too much gas like the A5's.

Just send me $100 and Dennis Jr. himself will personally give you permission.

Tippmann would be mad............very mad..........

I wouldnt use a motor though, I would just reroute the gas like on the A-5.

Just my two cents.