HPA Conversion to Gel Blaster

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Hello, I was thinking about buying a HPA gearbox and converting it to gel blaster. If anyone knows how to convert a HPA engine to a gel blaster, I would love to know that. Currently I am still on the aeg gel blaster platform and in my opinion, HPA engines are cool. I was thinking about buying a Mechlabs XX-MOD v2 hpa gearbox because it has no electronics, which seems cool to me when I convert it into a gel blaster. And also, if I want to make it with zero electronics, what type of magazine is common locally and is easy to convert to a spring powered magazine. I like to also know how to convert motor-powered magazines into spring powered. Sorry if this text was too long.

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I can’t comment on HPA conversion, it’s not something I’ve ever dabbled in.

I would imagine converting a motorised mag to spring would be a tricky thing to attempt. But not impossible. You’d have to figure out how to modify the mag shell to allow the motor to be relocated to the top, redesign the feed tube and come up with a suitable spring and follower to suit the mag size and length.

I’ve done some pretty out there drum and stick mag conversions before… but I don’t know if the amount of gain from doing it would justify the work required. :person_shrugging: It’s not something I’d attempt unless it was pissing down rain and I was bored out of my brain looking for something to fettle. :laughing:

If you do have a crack at one make sure you post any results up here. :+1:

Best of luck with it. :v:

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I will open with I don’t do HPA. Not my jam at all, and I will leave that side of it to the HPA lads.

For the mag without power using only a spring… Azraels tried it, took several years and was largely a failure. I will leave the controversy aside and focus on the mag.

Firstly, I stated from the initial announcement that they were going to try it that I felt it was never going to work in the stated form. IMO unless the tpiece is designed to suit the mag and releases all pressure from holding the gels back it is only going to be problematic and inconsistent. And that is what they have as the final product!

So, basically, if you can pull off a “high cap” or even “mid cap” mag that works ONLY on spring feed, you will be doing better than a company that lost many tens of thousands of dollars trying. Now that isn’t to say it can’t be done! I am sure it could be, but as I have always said, a tpiece would need to be designed to suit the mag IMO.

There is loads of people here that have built Kythera HPA blasters that run normal powered mags, my understanding is they add a switch in the box to activate power to the mag when the trigger is pulled.

Best of luck with the project, nothing is impossible; but if an easier option exists that is proven to work I would be taking that.

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I was looking at how those hicapa mags work and was wondering if they could be ported over to gel now that gels have gotten harder and theoretically would just need a weaker clock spring
It’s on my to-do list of experiments for when I get motivated enough :melting_face:

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I reckon the LDT springs mags would be great for the other soft sport with a gelblaster etu with mag terminals so don’t have to wind them up.