Whatever happened to magnetic dents? In 08 they were the next big thing i have a set on my mini and a couple autocockers I have one that lost the magnet and i was able to find the replacement magnet at at hobby store. I have been away from paintball for about 10+ years and am now dipping my toe back in (roll my eyes) and noticed that i cant seem to find them for sale anywhere. Were they a bad product? Did they break a lot? Were they to expensive for what they were? I noticed that there are a couple companies (e-paintball) that appear to have them, but i am not sure about most of the sites as they seem to be scam or defunct sites. I know that the sole provider seemed to be a company called Kila paintball I cant seem to find much history about them and maybe they are still being built sold and used, my google fu is just falling short.
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I'm curious on this one as well. Killa Detents were the primo back when I started playing, and I managed to pick one up not very long ago.
I can say definitively that E-Paintball is both not a scam and has none of them in stock. I used to work for their local shop, and the whole E-Paintball side of the business is on hold/being rebuilt.Comment
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What other word would you use to describe an unresponsive company that allows people to buy parts they don't have in stock? If their online business is actually being rebuilt then they should close their website and re-launch once things are fixed. At a minimum they could take the time to mark all of their old items as out of stock.
If I recall correctly you also defended Josh at Avratech so this just seems to fall in line with that. Just because you have had good dealings with someone doesn't mean what they're doing isn't wrong. -
Well first off, the website does not let you purchase anything that is out of stock. It won't even let you add it to your cart. And if you do manage to get that far, each payment has to be manually approved by the owner before it's processed. It is literally impossible to order something from the website.
So no, "scam" is absolutely not the right word.
As for why the website hasn't been taken down... well, that I can't answer. I'm assuming there is a good reason, otherwise it would have been done by now.
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I’m guessing magnetic detents never took odd because springs or just rubber spyder style detents are both functional and more cost effective.Comment
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I tried them on my 08 EGO and went beach to stock. They did not work well with the EGO. I never tried them after that.Comment
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Too harsh with brittle paint and with everything going to built in contoured detent covers they can't keep up with the design changes.
Most of the magnetic detents were bulbous add ons to make them functionalComment
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Those Kila detents were kind of a relic of a time when there were a ton of small companies making aftermarket parts for guns because, well...guns just weren't that good out of the box. Round about 08/09 you could get a Gen 4 or 5 timmy or an SFL shocker and while they were getting smaller and more efficient, the stock detents kind of sucked as did the boards, feednecks, grips, triggers...and well pretty much everything else. It was a feeding frenzy in the aftermarket to just throw things out there to "upgrade" various parts of guns at the time and Kila was definitely part of that. The magnets didn't actually help anything, nor did the detents themselves. As paint got more brittle, things drifted towards paint handling instead of outright speed and things like the magnetic detents just fell by the wayside as companies like Planet Eclipse started making the EGO and GEO's so much easier on paint as well as just including great feednecks, detents, and boards out of the box so very little was needed in the way of aftermarket parts. A waning interest in paintball made those aftermarket companies go out of business like Kila, Tadao, and others. Now trying to find those parts that I used to run on my Ripper 3 timmy like the Kila detents or Tadao Yakuza board are all but impossible and the parts themselves have a limited lifespan. Best just to go back to stock detents since paint handling at 10bps isn't as big an issue as it used to be at higher rates of fire.Comment
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Kilas work in automags about as well as cocker detents, but you can't ask any more of them. They have a round nose and cylindrical body (on the actual detent). When the paint started shrinking, people would adjust them in deeper. Then the bolt strikes the nose further to the side of the cylinder, loading it sideways and eventually tearing it off. They are a smaller diameter in the nose than a cocker ball, so they don't really have as much travel available when you keep them set to last a while. If you keep them shallow (for larger paint), they work well.
Automag breeches are kind of wide (0.689?). To hold a 0.675 paintball reliably, a lot of people went to double cocker detents. That kept the bolt rub down on detents. It's hard to beat those long rubber fingers (like Doc's adapter). The Kilas did last longer than the plastic AGD detents, but you paid about the same money in the end I think. None of them lasted when the bolt started hitting the housing of the detent.
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