On the Halos I've seen so far - all 3 of them, & 2 of them were mine 
- there's quite a lot of slack on the lid when it's open, allowing it to wiggle from side to side, which can make it difficult to close it quickly.
What I did is pop along to Maplins & pick up a box of their thinest plastic shims. I then dismantled my Halo, slipped a shim on either end of the lid retaining pin and got rid of the slack.
The good point: I don't need to worry about the lid skewing off to one side & thus not closing when I'm in a hurry.
The bad point: It can be a pig to find thin enough shims which means that the lid sticks shut , I ended up sanding down one of the shims to get rid of this problem.
As a last note: get a Revo as a backup hopper. If you get a broken ball in a Halo, it's a major job to clean it, it took me longer than having to swap out an exhaust valve on an Angel LCD. Whilst I find the Halo to be the better hopper, the Revo is far easier to clean.
Mike
- there's quite a lot of slack on the lid when it's open, allowing it to wiggle from side to side, which can make it difficult to close it quickly.What I did is pop along to Maplins & pick up a box of their thinest plastic shims. I then dismantled my Halo, slipped a shim on either end of the lid retaining pin and got rid of the slack.
The good point: I don't need to worry about the lid skewing off to one side & thus not closing when I'm in a hurry.
The bad point: It can be a pig to find thin enough shims which means that the lid sticks shut
, I ended up sanding down one of the shims to get rid of this problem.As a last note: get a Revo as a backup hopper. If you get a broken ball in a Halo, it's a major job to clean it, it took me longer than having to swap out an exhaust valve on an Angel LCD. Whilst I find the Halo to be the better hopper, the Revo is far easier to clean.
Mike
