Anyone Have An Old School "Paintball Roller"?

[BOOSH]

I'm looking for a working "paintball roller". I know they weren't around for very long. I was wondering if anyone has one they want to part with that still works.

[Jonnydread]

Are those the machines that were basically rock tumblers?

[BOOSH]

Ya, basically. The difference was in the actual drum. There were "fins" (for lack of a better word) that were attached to the inside that would ensure the paintballs were actually moved around and not just spinning in one place as the drum moved.

[Jonnydread]

BOOSH gotcha. I remember seeing those wayyy back in the day, but when I first started playing the idea of being able to afford anything other than Walmart paint was so over my head.

[jetenginekyle]

Whats a paintball roller? do you put the balls in and it keeps the paint from dimpling?

[Grendel]

Paintball tumbler, there were many DIY and a couple commercial versions that were based on some Rock Tumblers. I own one of the commercial ones but it is in a teammates trailer so I can not get an image for you. They are used to gently tumble paintballs to do (potentially) a few things:

• Mix up the fill, they came about when playing with paint months old was commonplace.
• Clean off the oils or clean balls from a bag that had a broken ball in it. Tumble the balls with paper towel or two in side and change out until you don't see paint on the paper towel anymore
• turn eggs and dimpled paintballs into relatively round. This is possible to a limited extent with careful introduction of moisture and heat but can make the situation worse or not help at all if the paint is too far gone.

I own the commercial one but my favorite ones I have used were made out of used apartment size Dryers. You remove the paddles and disconnect or modify the heating element. Those you could jump out some of the heating element so you get heat like a hair dryer on low and introduce some slightly damp paper towels and run overnight and my team had pretty good experience with some improvement of minor out of shape paint.

Mine looks a lot like this Rock Tumbler other then the barrel is different mine is similar to a restaurant size Mayo plastic jug. It will hole one bag comfortably two will work but not as well.

[jetenginekyle]

thank you for the explanation!

[Trbo323]

This is the first I'm hearing about these as well. That is an interesting solution to a problem that is basically gone at this point. That's certainly a lot of effort for a small amount of paint

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[Spider!]

This reminds me of old APG ads.

I never figured out how large these were or how fast they ran.

[Chappy]

Rolling an unopened bag in my fingers for 2 minutes seems to have the desired effect for me.