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Hi everybody, I'm a newbie in pneumatics, and I was wondering if anybody has a good way of getting more than one shot before I have to refil my chamber. Since I joined the forum, I've been looking for plans, but most of them said that I would need to have an air compressor conected to the gun. I only want a BB gun that shots at at least 350 fps.
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Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:21 pm

do you have a lathe or a machine shop at hand?

your best bet would be a hammer valve...and a big chamber.

other than that i dunno.
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Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:38 pm

use multple chambers and valves.
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Use a large chamber, a low flow manual main valve, and constriction before the valve. <a href="http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/viewtop ... 415&">This </a> might help with ideas.
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Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:16 am

3/4 sprinkler valves.
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Thanks for the answers. About the sprinkler valve, I'm having trouble finding one in my country. How does a gun that has a sprinkler valve works?
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money434 wrote:Thanks for the answers. About the sprinkler valve, I'm having trouble finding one in my country. How does a gun that has a sprinkler valve works?
http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/viewtop ... 05&start=0&
Read all of the intruction that Pc Guy gives and it should be clear. If you still dont understand ask someopne for help.
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You need to seperate the link from other text to have it work. ^

money434, go to the How-To's and click on the Sticky: How To Mod a Sprinkler Valve, or go to the Spud Wiki and look around there.
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money434 wrote:Thanks for the answers. About the sprinkler valve, I'm having trouble finding one in my country. How does a gun that has a sprinkler valve works?
What country do you live in?
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I'm from Brasil. All the sprinkler valves I found were from outside the country, so the price would be the valve's+about 15 USD for the shiping+a price for the product to enter the coutry(wich is +- the price of the valve).
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well that sucks my advice would get multiple large chambers and instead of a sprinkler valve make a piston or diaprahgam
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Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:06 pm

WHy would yo want a piston?
You would want a valve that doesn't perform good.
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if you build a piston right it can be better than a sprinkler valve i actual prefer the piston valve
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If you want multiple shots, you wouldn't use a piston valve because it dumps TOO MUCH air. Read the oringinal post.
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Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:31 pm

alextheametuer wrote:if you build a piston right it can be better than a sprinkler valve i actual prefer the piston valve
Liek I said you want something with minimal perormance.

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