combustion paintball?
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newkidspudster
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I need to know if its possible to make a combustion paintball gun,? or will the paintball pop?
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I've done it and it worked really well. It was pretty powerful too. Just keep the chamber sorta small.
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Paintballs are not always exactly .68cal. Different brands will run small or large, and the moisture content will also affect the size. Anyway, if you want to use it for paintball, you would probably be better off using a stock barrel off a Spyder. At least that was meant for shooting paintballs.
And yes, if the Tippman C3 can be used for paintball, it must be able to reach a pretty high velocity. It must at least get close to 300fps, if not capable of more.
I was thinking of making a combustion pump action. But, the design I wanted to use would probably require more sophisticated tools and parts than I would have access to. Basicly, I wanted to have the chamber be basicly like a bike pump. A ram will have a disc and at one end of the chamber will be a one way valve. You pull the ram and it brings in fresh air, and exhausts the old out the barrel. Then there would be a propane meter that would release a small amount of gas electronically when you push the ram back in place. And of course the ram would also have to let another ball in, which could be done like 2 ways. Either directly connect the ram you push/pull to vent the gun to a bolt, or a switch could trigger a solenoid to open and close the bolt.
I just figured a cheap Spyder blowback would be faster and more reliable, so I abandoned the idea. The only way you could make a semi auto or full auto would be to use big rams to exhaust the gun, or to meter oxygen also. And that would be dangerous, and bulky. Or, I guess you could have 2 chambers and one would fire, which would provide pressure to power a ram that would push a piston through the other chamber and vent it. But, then you would have 2 chambers, a couple rams, and other junk. It just doesn't seem practical. It would be complex, heavy, and bulky. Plus, you would need like 2 hoppers or to split the feed up which I would assume could cause feed issues or would make it hard to clean if you chopped a ball. Also, with the addition of eyes like many new guns have, it would require the circuit to be timed exactly to the firing order of the gun. Although, I guess that could be solved.
And yes, if the Tippman C3 can be used for paintball, it must be able to reach a pretty high velocity. It must at least get close to 300fps, if not capable of more.
I was thinking of making a combustion pump action. But, the design I wanted to use would probably require more sophisticated tools and parts than I would have access to. Basicly, I wanted to have the chamber be basicly like a bike pump. A ram will have a disc and at one end of the chamber will be a one way valve. You pull the ram and it brings in fresh air, and exhausts the old out the barrel. Then there would be a propane meter that would release a small amount of gas electronically when you push the ram back in place. And of course the ram would also have to let another ball in, which could be done like 2 ways. Either directly connect the ram you push/pull to vent the gun to a bolt, or a switch could trigger a solenoid to open and close the bolt.
I just figured a cheap Spyder blowback would be faster and more reliable, so I abandoned the idea. The only way you could make a semi auto or full auto would be to use big rams to exhaust the gun, or to meter oxygen also. And that would be dangerous, and bulky. Or, I guess you could have 2 chambers and one would fire, which would provide pressure to power a ram that would push a piston through the other chamber and vent it. But, then you would have 2 chambers, a couple rams, and other junk. It just doesn't seem practical. It would be complex, heavy, and bulky. Plus, you would need like 2 hoppers or to split the feed up which I would assume could cause feed issues or would make it hard to clean if you chopped a ball. Also, with the addition of eyes like many new guns have, it would require the circuit to be timed exactly to the firing order of the gun. Although, I guess that could be solved.
This gun is said to be many times more efficient than a air supplied tippmann.
Depends what you mean by efficient but it does get a hell of a lot more shots per tank of propellant than any other marker type.
Downside it is it has to be a pump action to cool the marker enough to prevent the components from getting too hot.
Downside it is it has to be a pump action to cool the marker enough to prevent the components from getting too hot.
I thought it had to be a pump action because they had to use it to drive a pump as a method to vent the chamber quickly enough, because they didn't have any other way - not because of overheating.Hotwired wrote:Downside it is it has to be a pump action to cool the marker enough to prevent the components from getting too hot.
They don't currently even have any way to make a working prototype in semi as I understand.
Does that thing kinda look like a big cat to you?
As I understand it can't go above 3 bps or it will overheat, which is a serious issue if you're after semi-auto or auto.