BL-520 Stage One
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 2:31 am
my awesome uncle was attending an ultimatespudgun demo put on by the owner Mike, and bought me a Bl-520 starter kit as a end of school gift. so i opened the box, and pulled out the 2 parts of the starter kit, the standard ignitor kit (SIK-20) and the offset coax kit w/ mix fan (OCK-20). it was pretty nicely packaged, and the parts all looked pretty cool. the standard ignitor is a piezo with the wire leads attached under some heat shrink tubing, the contacts are brass, which is cool, i like brass. all the brackets went together with (custom looking) square nuts, which fit into the holes in the brackets, and eliminate alot of the pain of tightening, because the bracket holds the nut, you don't need to. all aluminum, feels really solid. the off set kit was the the offset piece with a little batman thing cut into it for the mix fan tube, the 40mm mix fan, a piece that holds 1.5" PVC to the mix fan and fan protector plate, plus a switch and some wiring. pretty easy build, just followed the instructions, and it was done. the fan was pretty cool, its made out of about 19.5" inches of 1.5" PVC, and connects to the off set piece and the fan, so it pulls air up from the front of the chamber, and it exits the fan assembly at the back of the chamber, so that it also vents it when the cap is off. with ~2 seconds of static guard, it was a shot every single time, not so much spray and pray, and this thing was pretty powerful, actually almost of the same level ad some metered propane guns I've used, because of the mix fan. it was easily putting clean holes in 3/4" ply at ~15 yards. because of the grip, its pretty comfortable to shoot rocket launcher style, instead of shouldered. decided to go for a camo paint scheme, looks pretty cool. ill get some pics of the gun up in a few hours if i can
