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Miniature guns are novelty custom, unique, and sometime downright crude! Common construction materials often include pill bottles or pens. Show us your work!
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Hello, longtime lurker, first time poster here. On the inspiration of JSR, I've decided to build a pengun. I picked up a 6" long 3/4" Copper pipe, as the air chamber, (I know, not exactly "Pen" size), and a 1/4" OD 8" long copper pipe as the barrel. My piston is going to be a hot glue plug molded from the 3/4" pipe. Will I need to use anything on the sealing side of the piston, or will the glue seal it fine? And the packaging on the barrel says "Soft Copper". Is this ok, or will it flatten due to the pressure? Sorry for all the questions, I'm kind of new to these "Mini's".
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Mon Mar 31, 2014 1:15 pm

SpaceSpudOne wrote:Hello, longtime lurker, first time poster here. On the inspiration of JSR, I've decided to build a pengun. I picked up a 6" long 3/4" Copper pipe, as the air chamber, (I know, not exactly "Pen" size), and a 1/4" OD 8" long copper pipe as the barrel. My piston is going to be a hot glue plug molded from the 3/4" pipe. Will I need to use anything on the sealing side of the piston, or will the glue seal it fine?
A rubber disk is always a good idea. Also, make sure the barrel pipe is not too thin or it will cut into the piston, remember that there is a net force pushing the piston against the barrel. In your case, for every 100 psi there is around 5 lbs for force.
And the packaging on the barrel says "Soft Copper". Is this ok, or will it flatten due to the pressure? Sorry for all the questions, I'm kind of new to these "Mini's".
Not unless you intend to operate at several thousand psi ;)
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Ok, I just finished building it. Now comes the hard part- Waiting for the epoxy to dry :lol: I epoxied a piece of bicycle inner tube to the front of the piston, I think that should seal the barrel quite well. To stop it from digging into the piston, I fit the pipe inside a short bit of 6mm barrel from an old airsoft gun. Here's some pics I took, the blue tape is just there to hold the epoxy until it cures. (EDIT) I tried it today, and the piston wouldn't seal. So, I took it apart, and am going to try the rubber piston. How thick should the piston be?

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SpaceSpudOne wrote:Ok, I just finished building it. Now comes the hard part- Waiting for the epoxy to dry :lol:
The curse of the latheless spudder ;)
I epoxied a piece of bicycle inner tube to the front of the piston, I think that should seal the barrel quite well. To stop it from digging into the piston, I fit the pipe inside a short bit of 6mm barrel from an old airsoft gun. Here's some pics I took, the blue tape is just there to hold the epoxy until it cures. (EDIT) I tried it today, and the piston wouldn't seal. So, I took it apart, and am going to try the rubber piston. How thick should the piston be?
half inch at least should be ok.

My advice is to cut it out with a piece of sharpened camber tubing, watch your fingers though ;)

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A Pen gun is a firearm that resembles an ink pen. They generally are of small caliber (e.g., .22 LR, .25 ACP, .32 ACP, .38-caliber, etc.)and are single shot. Early examples of pen guns were pinfired, but modern designs are rim or centerfire. Some pen guns are not designed to fire regular cartridges, but rather blank cartridges, signal flares or tear gas cartridges.
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Arsen01 wrote:A Pen gun is a firearm that resembles an ink pen. They generally are of small caliber (e.g., .22 LR, .25 ACP, .32 ACP, .38-caliber, etc.)and are single shot. Early examples of pen guns were pinfired, but modern designs are rim or centerfire. Some pen guns are not designed to fire regular cartridges, but rather blank cartridges, signal flares or tear gas cartridges.

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jrrdw wrote:
Arsen01 wrote:A Pen gun is a firearm that resembles an ink pen. They generally are of small caliber (e.g., .22 LR, .25 ACP, .32 ACP, .38-caliber, etc.)and are single shot. Early examples of pen guns were pinfired, but modern designs are rim or centerfire. Some pen guns are not designed to fire regular cartridges, but rather blank cartridges, signal flares or tear gas cartridges.

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Wiki wrote:They generally are of small caliber (e.g., .22 LR, .25 ACP, .32 ACP, .38-caliber, etc.)and are single shot.
What, no 1mm, 3mm, 1/8", 4.5mm and 6mm? Sounds like the article needs to be updated...
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I thought it said Penguin :?
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farcticox1 wrote:I thought it said Penguin :?
It's been an issue since the beginning :roll:
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