Pod adaptor for the A-5 cyclone.
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Topic: Pod adaptor for the A-5 cyclone.
Posted By: Monk
Subject: Pod adaptor for the A-5 cyclone.
Date Posted: 23 April 2005 at 3:27pm
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How about and attachment to the cyclone, that you can just pop a pod onto it. When there is no more paintballs. Take the pod off and put a new one on. This would be like super fast. It would be fairly realistic for woodsball, and awsome for speedball (course why would you take an a5 onto a speedball field---somepeople do though). Or maybe they already make it, I dont know, whatever. EDIT: It could be angled so that it doesnt stick up so high. |
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Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 23 April 2005 at 5:10pm
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That would be really cool. You would just need to make sure the pod attaches securely to the cyclone so it wont fall off. ------------- Pumpker'd; (V.) When a pump player runs up and shoots you at point blank range because you thought 20bps made you good. |
Posted By: Sureshot3091
Date Posted: 23 April 2005 at 7:24pm
| the only problem is that when you flip the pod over to load onto the A-5 paintball would spill out....would be quicker though |
Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 23 April 2005 at 8:29pm
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The pod would just turn the cyclone into an even bigger target. ------------- A-5 E-Grip JCS Dual Trigger DOP X-CORE 8 stage x-chamber Lapco Bigshot 14" Beadblasted Optional setup: R/T Dead on Blade trigger |
Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 23 April 2005 at 10:30pm
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Not if its angled back. I accually could be smaller...could be... |
You Wont See Me wrote:Posted By: Psyrecx
Date Posted: 24 April 2005 at 12:38am
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didnt they have something like that called a slammer pod? ------------- 
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Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 24 April 2005 at 8:54am
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yeah but those attached to the feedneck of the hopper.
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Posted By: meteora
Date Posted: 24 April 2005 at 9:10pm
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saw some dude at twc cut out the front of his a-5 hopper, and put the pod(no like side thing or lid) and tape it to the front, so the only bigger difference it made was from the side, stright on was the same, it just held 140 more rounds, looked kinda cool too ------------- http://imageshack.us"> 
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Posted By: DflyNchimp
Date Posted: 24 April 2005 at 10:11pm
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I'd think that having a 140 count pod sticking out the front end of your hopper would look kind of strange and awkward
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Posted By: MT. Vigilante
Date Posted: 25 April 2005 at 8:22am
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I saw a while ago in a paintball magazine that some company had made some Hoppers that doubled as pods, so that when your hopper ran out you would just replace it w/ another, the only problem was that they held a lot less paintballs than a regular hopper. They didn’t make any for an A-5 either. -------------  Join the XP Re-Revolution!
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Posted By: MT. Vigilante
Date Posted: 25 April 2005 at 8:24am
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It wouldn’t be much different than having one of those Q-loaders mounted under your barrel. ------------- Join the XP Re-Revolution!
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Posted By: SgtPoisonMiller
Date Posted: 26 April 2005 at 1:08pm
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Don't laugh at me, but A5 rules in speedball... 1(me) vs 2 I won 4/5 games... and I had a stock A5. ------------- ------------------ Sgt. Poison Miller ------------------ Current Owner of: A5 w/Remote, 68/45 Crossfire, Flatline, Ricochet R5, Tapco T6 Stock Vforce Shield Standard (Green) ------------------ |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 26 April 2005 at 7:27pm
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It's not the marker that makes the game. It's the player. If you could
do that with the A-5, you could probably do it with a brass eagle. I'd
venture to guess that your opponents failed to work toegether. that beign said, A5 is still an excellent marker. ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: PB MISFIT
Date Posted: 27 April 2005 at 2:31am
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The more the angle, the slower the grav feed. The less the angle, the more visibility.
Current hopper designs are ideal for feeding, and maintaining a low profile. With Dye Lock-Pods, and a launchpod pack, you can reload rather fast. |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 27 April 2005 at 9:45am
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The Ricochet hoppers seem to have a good combination of looks, profile, and speed...
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Posted By: x-mo-x
Date Posted: 27 April 2005 at 11:54am
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Ya but for the A-5 I think that the pod thing is pretty smart. straight on top of you cyclone feed you put a 50 deg angle you can click a pod in!! the 50deg angle is good enough to keep it out of sight but sloppy enough to feed the same then a normal A-5 hopper. Plz correct me if I'm wrong!!! ------------- Eyes up this one's for you!!! Brought to you by the Canadian Guy!!! |
Posted By: PB MISFIT
Date Posted: 27 April 2005 at 12:04pm
Good thoughts, but again. You wouldnt get optimal feeding. The fastest way to get to point a to point b is a straight line. Well, the force of gravity is pushing straight down, not at an angle. Think of it this way. Which way would you get down faster, jumping off the 2nd story to the first, or going down the stairs? |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 27 April 2005 at 12:45pm
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Keep in mind, misfit, that the width fo the pod would definitely let it feed to the Cyclone's maximum capacity. Either way, I'm not a fan of replacing hoopers with pods except for Qloaders. If you want a better loader, get an Apache Ricochet A5... ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 27 April 2005 at 10:41pm
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you know, they do make a 2 or 300 round hopper for the a-5 specops or opsgear sells it (cant remeber which one)
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Posted By: Arbites
Date Posted: 30 April 2005 at 4:17pm
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Hmmm, How about the JT Speed Pods? I bought one and put it on the hopper mouth of my A-5 and HATED it. But i never tried putting it straight on the cyclone in place of the hopper. This might have some merit, especially if you coul dfigure out a way to angle it just slightly back or to the side away from the marker to allow you to aim. ------------- A-5: 12" Ceramic, Egrip/WAS/Duel, HPA, MP5 sliding stock SMG-68: 12" Ceramic 68-Specials(8): 12"&14" Ceramic, 12V Revy *** 1 Tip-n-Strip, 1 Blue, 1 FA w/Qloader SL-68: 14" Ceramic SMG-60 Ext. Line |
Posted By: x-mo-x
Date Posted: 04 May 2005 at 7:10pm
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well cheap way could be a PVC tube angle?!?! ------------- Eyes up this one's for you!!! Brought to you by the Canadian Guy!!! |
Posted By: Sureshot3091
Date Posted: 04 May 2005 at 10:19pm
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Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 05 May 2005 at 8:41am
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If that were for an A-5, then it would go good with this topic, however its not. I still consider this a marketable Idea, but realisticly youd be loosing over 200 paitballs in a match. Plus the time for R&D, owell. |
Posted By: Sureshot3091
Date Posted: 05 May 2005 at 2:40pm
| Oh yea i forgot it was for just a regular gun...my bad |
Posted By: Sureshot3091
Date Posted: 05 May 2005 at 5:55pm
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couldnt you do the same idea though...just make the neck bigger...Im SURE it can be done sorry about double post
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