Spring Loaded Pods!

All you need is hot glue, a spring, and a piece of cardboard.
 then fill it up with paintballs while pushing the plunger down. Close the lid of your pod when done filling. (Note. Put your pod in the mouth of your hopper when you open it. They come flying out very fast. Depending on your spring size they should anyway.

Step 1: Create

All you do is hot glue the spring to the bottom of you pod and hot glue the cardboard onto the spring. Let dry.

Comments

[jmessina1]

I would love to see a video of this aactually working nevermind speeding up reload time, if anything you have to take more time to make sure that the pod is close enough to he lid to open without missing and far enough that the lid actually opens

[John_234]

It would work better if you could modify the mod to dump it's contents with a button on the end or something, because as is, it's just clumsy and prone to losing all your paintballs.

[Fried Noodles]

whats the point in this, if you cant compress the spring it just wastes space in the pod

[Paintballer98]

no the spring gets pushed down then the pod is filled with paintballs and lid closed. when you open the lid it forces the paintballs out of the pod

[Fried Noodles]

what happens if you open a full pod before its near the hopper?

[mg0930mg]

You're screwed, which is a big problem. I'd rather have a normal pod, and not lose everything when you need to hold this over the pod before you open it.

[Paintballer98]

you put the mouth of the pod to the hopper before you open it

[mg0930mg]

I said that, but that seems like a waste, when I can open my pod after I pull it out of the pack and reload while shooting. This I would need to stop shooting and make sure I open over the hopper..

Do you know if this works with a speed feed? It sounds like it wouldn't be very good. This also takes up space, meaning less paintballs.

[Paintballer98]

you can still reload while shooting with this. It just decreases reload time

[mg0930mg]

Will you answer my question?

It's harder to shoot while reloading because you need to bring your pod right next to the hopper, keep it steady and pop the lid, when you could just pop it, and flip it over...

[Paintballer98]

I dont know if it would work with a speed feed, it is a little harder but no one forced you to use this pod so u dont even have to use it

[mg0930mg]

I'm just showing everyone every possibility. This instructable just isn't that great, the final product doesn't really help you. It's easier to lose paint, less paint in pod, etc. The upside, it's faster by .9 seconds.

[Paintballer98]

"This instructable just isn't that great"

-827 views as of May 5th

[mg0930mg]

http://www.instructables.com/id/Christmas-Delight/

This instructable isn't that popular, but I took my own pictures. They're my own instructions. It's something I've actually done.

It has 2,215 views.

[mg0930mg]

Views have nothing to do with it. How many people have said they followed your instructions to make this? Nobody here has said that they have in the comments.

The instructions really aren't that great.

[John_234]

Agreed.

[Paintballer98]

you dont

[cam.dav32]

You die,.........Horribly

[Paintballer98]

Exactly

[mg0930mg]

How would this work with a speed feed anyway?

[mitchell12]

Probably the least helpful instructable I've seen this year.

[Paintballer98]

this is insanely helpful so you don't get bunkered while reloading

[mg0930mg]

He means it's unhelpful because no one understands what you are doing.

[Paintballer98]

the spring pushes the cardboard and in turn moves the paintballs in about 0.1 seconds out of the pod

[mg0930mg]

Yes, now count in the loss of paint from this, it's not really worth it, the balls come out fast enough. If this was that important, I'm sure someone would have made pods like this already.

[mg0930mg]

Yes, but you don't show us very clearly how to do it, if you had your own pictures(!) we would be able to see it better.

[mg0930mg]

This seems like a waste of time, and it's most likely easier for the paintballs to fall out of the pod. It doesn't take that long for you to reload?

[Paintballer98]

2 to 3 seconds to reload normally, about 1 second reload with this modded pod

[junits15]

have you made this yet?

[Paintballer98]

yes, it works extremely well

[junits15]

kool, i was just unsure because there were no actual pics, I wasnt gonna try it unless i knew for sure

[Paintballer98]

btw the first pic is me using the pod

[Paintballer98]

sorry, meant to say this is not me using the pod

[junits15]

ill take your word for it