bow's warpless Halo build

[bowcycle]

I originally wanted to do a boxmag, but when Loguzzzz's brackets came out, I decided to switch over. Plus, I had these great, red Halo shells and I play German side at OK D-Day, so the timing seemed perfect.

There's a picture limit per post, so you'll just have to scroll to see the whole thing.

Let me know what you think.

I can talk later about the things I did wrong. One of those was trying to get too fancy with the raceway rerouting. I wanted the copper elbow to snug in there and contour to the path of the paintballs. This is unnecessary, complicated, and means I ended up chopping way more than I needed to. It only partially worked anyway. Also, I shouldn't have cut the bottom off the feed. If I had left it alone, it would have added more support in the end.

Here's what I did cut


and here's what I ended up with









I wanted to use 45* elbows to make the upward transition smoother and I wanted the first elbow to line up with the path of the original raceway as closely as possible.

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next comes the shells.

Basically, I just went really slow and used the sanding bit on the dremel to try my best not to take off too much.

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To get facing up, I just needed to add another 45* elbow.
Make sure to smooth off the front edge as the one I got was rather sharp and could have shredded the paint.




I have a torque-tuned motor for this, but thought that I might be able to get away without it if I used a detent somewhere along the line. The easiest place seemed right after the turn.
I found that a 3/4" PVC pipe fits pretty closely over the 3/4" copper elbow. So I decided to see if a Tippmann detent could fit between them.
Sure enough...

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And here's the final thing. I hope to get some video up next week at D-Day. If anyone is coming out, hit me up and I'll let you throw it around a bit.






I need to give a word of thanks to all the guys who have done this mod in the past and posted info about it. Mine may look a little different, but there's no way I could've done it with out all your work and great information.
Peace.

[BigEvil]

Great job!

[93klauss]

Nice work...Like the detent idea... We all look a little different....

[barkingspider]

Thanks for showing the details, I like to learn from these projects. Looks nice and clean.