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I play for the scenario paintball team Pub Crawling. We have more than 20 members on the team and over the years we have come up with ideas that keep the staging area better organized. One of the items we get asked about a lot is the custom Paintball Pod loader station we built.
A pod is the plastic tube paintball players use to carry extra paint onto the field. Pods range in size from being able to hold 50 to 150 paintballs. When you have 20 players each carrying 6 pods of paint on the field you need a way to keep them loaded up with paint and on the field.
Requirements for the station would have to be: stable base for loading paint, light as possible for travel and convenient for loading paint. Since this was the first attempt at the stand and it's made of 3/4 inch plywood it isn't as light we would have hoped but it's possible with some cut outs in the panels we could lighten this up without losing the structural integrity.
The stand works with an AJP Paintball Pod Loader. This custom stand was designed by my team mate Chris "Tea Pot" Shanks and was built by one of the contractors he works with. I just reverse engineered it so we could post it up here.
You can find out more about the paintball team Pub Crawling at www.PubCrawling.Org .
A pod is the plastic tube paintball players use to carry extra paint onto the field. Pods range in size from being able to hold 50 to 150 paintballs. When you have 20 players each carrying 6 pods of paint on the field you need a way to keep them loaded up with paint and on the field.
Requirements for the station would have to be: stable base for loading paint, light as possible for travel and convenient for loading paint. Since this was the first attempt at the stand and it's made of 3/4 inch plywood it isn't as light we would have hoped but it's possible with some cut outs in the panels we could lighten this up without losing the structural integrity.
The stand works with an AJP Paintball Pod Loader. This custom stand was designed by my team mate Chris "Tea Pot" Shanks and was built by one of the contractors he works with. I just reverse engineered it so we could post it up here.
You can find out more about the paintball team Pub Crawling at www.PubCrawling.Org .
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The Wooden sections are built out of 3/4 inch plywood. I believe they used two sheets of it.
There are (3) side panels and a top piece.
(4) pod loader clamps 6 1/2 x 2 1/4 x 1
(4) slide bolt latches
(8) 3 inch hinges
(1) door handle
(1) Hasp
There are (3) side panels and a top piece.
(4) pod loader clamps 6 1/2 x 2 1/4 x 1
(4) slide bolt latches
(8) 3 inch hinges
(1) door handle
(1) Hasp
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The detergent bottles work well, I see a lot of players use them. There are even some commercial ones that are pretty much just that but with the fill port more Pod Sized. Some of the commercial ones like the one from Gen X look like it might seal better than a detergent one and it might keep your paint fresh longer if you store it in there.