Check that barrel insertion, for sure. Exploding gels is a dead giveaway that something isn’t right there.
Also, think about making up a spring and plate for the mag, solve all your feeding issues. Maybe check if a P90 mag spring and follower would work with some modification. Wouldn’t be difficult.
With that low FPS it should feed the medium hardness gels like pinks no problem. I’m surprised it feeds the harder iHobby gels without jamming being so low powered.
Gotta be a t piece problem… maybe even the mag feedwheel cutting up the softer gels a bit before they even make it to the t piece.
Trial and error… eliminate one possible cause at a time until you find the culprit.
I was looking at these last year just after I started getting into gelsoft, my idea for it was to just tape a 3ltr milk bottle with a speed loader nozzle to the magazine…
Considering the expected performance and physical impracticality of these units, I’d be keeping it as a non-functioning static prop if I had a broken one. About all it’s really good for… if you’re going to be honest.
A lot of dosh and work for something you’re not likely to run around a field with. Then again, I also get the OCD factor whereby if you got it, it has to work. Something I suffer from and I’m trying hard to get away from. I’m okay with non-functioning props these days.
Never got to take mine to a game, as arrived right in the middle of the Bans were being announced after a month of waiting for it to arrive , being ordered before the Bans were ever even mentioned to the public.
There’s a 2 story Wooden Fort at one of our fields, and the idea was to be able to up the ante when we played “defend the Fort” games by getting it set high up on the corner, which is very protected by the height above the attacking team and gives a wide field of fire.
Would I run around in the scrub and trenches with one… HELL NO!
Excuse my shabby laziness at not editing these screenshots, but just wanted to show that these were the closest cylinder head/nozzle designs to the ZB26, but never got the chance to order some and trial them out.
The nozzles have a half moon ground off the upper surface to allow clearance to operate on the outlet tube, looking a bit weird, but in reality, I’m sure that any nozzle could be ground down to the right shape to be able to fit.
Be Super careful with the t-pieces…they are Very fragile.
FULL LENGTH SEATING:
if your barrel is requiring a lot of force, into the fragile t-piece, soak the tpiece in some just boiled water. This will soften it, and it will go on/off with a lot less force, to the full length, without risk out snapping the tpiece.