ZionMachine

I'm making a fifteen round tube magazine that goes horizontal to my paintball gun. Made of 3/4th inch CPVC pipe with an end cap and an elbow to feed them, it vastly reduces my gun's silhouette and weight.15 rounds is normally very few but I can carry a lot of them and they can be switched out in under 5 seconds(I'm working on getting that down). I also precision fire, usually three round burst when I think I can hit something. Suppression is left up to someone else.




Anyway, long story short, this magazine, due to it's horizontal nature, only feeds when the gun is tipped downwards slightly.

I want to fix that by putting a spring in the end cap. But it has to be enough force to push the paintballs forward when tilted slightly upwards, without damaging them when fifteen is loaded in for up to several hours.


So far I've looked in auto parts and home supply stores with no luck, and tried making one out of 28 gauge steel, but either it's just not the right kind of wire or my technique(Wrapping it around something!) fails miserably.


Any advice?