Paintball Loader: The Torque..

Introducing the new Hard Corps Torque loader. It IS a true force fed hopper. It's super super quiet (I can barely hear it when its on). You can use 1 9V, 2 9V's, or attach a 6 AA Harness and use those. It is true that the loader has no board, the only board to speak of is the little PCB that the buttons are attached to. The loader does 42 BPS in a drop test, and at least 30 on guns. IT GETS MORE THAN 2-3 CASES FOR BATTERIES. If you were to leave the hopper on the entire time to run out the batteries, you would be able to shoot 8-9 cases is what I believe he said.

The Torque at first glance appears to be the baby of a Halo and a Vlocity according to most people. It does look like that to me as well. Thats where the similarities end. First of all the loader has no eyes and no sound activated system. Then what you ask? It uses a slip drive system. Now I'm not 100% sure the hell that means, but what I do know is this. When the tension on the balls reaches a certain point, it stops forcing them. This allows the loader to " ramp " up to speed according to how fast your gun shoots (at least thats how I "think" it works) until the loader maxes itself out.

Maintenance appears to be VERY easy. Inside the loader there are 2 spring loaded nub things. When you depress one of the spring loaded nubs, you pull toward you and away from the other half of the shell. Thats it, its done. You can remove the other side after that by just depressing the other spring loaded nub. The plastic feels very very strong, and after letting people at cup and friends open and close it all night long, I'm very confident in its ability to withstand standard paintball abuse. That includes diving and the sort.

The buttons are super simple and fairly nice. It's a simple toggle switch on off, no holding the button in for 5 seconds to turn it off. You push it in, its on, you push it again and it depresses outward, and its off. That simple. A green LED says whether its on or off. The other button is a unjamming button. You simply push the button and the loader rotates reverse and it unjamms.

The paddle wheel it's also pretty neat. It has little paddles on the inside that of course force the balls down the feed tube ala the Halo (I guess the similarities didn't stop earlier, but thats it pretty much for now). On the TOP of the paddle wheel there is a freely rotating disc called a Load Wheel. What this disc does is allows the paintballs ONTOP of the paintballs that are being fed to not have any tension on them. The loader has less mass to move.

Example.

In the halo, when you turn it on, it rotates pretty much the entire mass (looks like flushing a toilet) of the paintballs, this can cause breaks or jams or just use more battery life (stressing the motor).

In the Torque, when you turn it on, only the balls that are in the tray to be fed move, anything above them only moves when they are falling down into the tray to be fed. So its noticeably more quiet than others.

The gun comes with a pretty good 30 day warranty. If ANYTHING should happen to the loader within 30 days of purchasing it, you can send it back to them and they'll fix it free of charge.

After 30 days if anything happens to the loader, you can send it back to them with $3.00 and they'll fix anything wrong with it.

Me shooting the Torque



Me and a friend stripping down the torque



Torque drop test



The hopper can be had for $99 dollars. I would suggest purchasing it from SobePaintball.

Overall I'd say it's definitely a great buy and the experienced paintball player would be pleased.