Grip Feed Tube

[Booti]

I have an outcast cocker that i wish to fit grip feed tube to

For the love of god i cannot get the current one to unscrew (and have therefore made the obvious assumption that it doesn't )

Is there anyway i can fit a screw on feed tube so that i can then fit a grip feed tube

Cheers in advance

Booti

 

[dr.strangelove]

Any 2k1 + vert cocker should have a removealbe feedneck, and being that the outkast is only about a year old, I'd bet that it does. There's probably just thread locker on there. Get a strap wrench and a vise with soft grips. Put the marker body in the vise, and then put the strap wrench on the feeneck and try to twist it off, it should come out. If it's not a removeable neck, you'd have to send it out to a custom body shop to have the feeneck hole re-drilled and threaded.

 

[jahlad]

DO NOT DO THAT!!!

go to where you bought it and ask first....ive seen the state of a cocker someone tried to unscrew a fixed feed neck from and the result was a new body completely.

the none screw in ones are just push fitted and tacked on it is alarmingly easy to rip the whole think apart once you get it in a vice.
also cocker bodys cannont be redrilled for a twist on feed neck, the only way to do it is to remove the push fit neck and push fit a threaded one......the threads on a cocker feed neck are on the outside not on the inside of the neck as on all other markers.
only place i have ever heard of changing the feed neck for someone was wdp themselves

 

[dr.strangelove]

Originally posted by jahlad
cocker bodys cannont be redrilled for a twist on feed neck

Unless of course the custom machine shop you sent it to threads it to another type of feedneck (eg, bushmaster, angel), and you get one for that type of neck.

Anyhow, yeah, probably wouldn't hurt to check, but I'm about 98% sure it's threaded (which means if it isn't, I'm only 98% wrong )

 

[jahlad]

the cocker bodies that you have seen that are threaded for angel necks are made like that, they arnt converted from standard bodies.....i tried to find a photo to show how a standard cocker body works but the feed neck is pressed into a hole in the top of the body, this hole is WAY to wide for any threaded feed neck.....the site that had photos on has sold out so the link aint there anymore

 

[John C]

If your feedneck is threaded but you cant get it off use a hairdryer to heat up the locktite, it will unscrew much easier.

 

[dr.strangelove]

I know perfectly well how a standard threaded autococker feed neck unscrews. After building four autocockers, replacing a threaded neck for a friend, and having seen several be replaced at the local pro shop, I hardly need it diagramed for me. There have been jobs done by Docs Machine where bodies have been tapped for different necks though. If you buy or build bodies without the holes drilled, or if you simply cover the hole (I believe in one case, (wasn't on a cocker, but could easily be done to just about any marker), a feedneck hole was silver-soldered back together, and a new one re-drilled), and re-drill and re-thread it (and re-finish the body, of course), you could put basically any neck you wanted to in there, but like I said, you'd need a custom machine shop to do it, unless you happen to have a spare multi-thousand dollar machine shop in your garage.

 

[jahlad]

i wasnt talking about the part that unscrews, i was talking about the part on the marker that is threaded, the tube itself is press fitted into the body.
yeah i suppose if you pulled that tube out you could replace it with a tube that you could put any thread you wanted on

 

[Booti]

i have had another look at it and the feed tube is definetly an all in one piece

also the grub screw that holds the e-blade eye in place is drilled and tapped thru the lower part of the feed neck

it is certainly a seperate pieve to the main body as there is no way they can have milled it the way they have

i may be offline here.....not sure why you keep refering to angel threads....but i am trying to fit the type of feed neck that comes as standard on the naughty dogs special edition or the VF Tactial marker

Jahlad......i bought the marker second hand......i think i spoke to you for advise on it....i can take it planet for advise if you think that is a wise idea

any more assistance is apprecihated

 

[jahlad]

yep if you are anything less than 100% sure its a screw in, let planet have a look....if you twist out a standard feed neck its buggered!