Show us your pneumatic spud gun! Discuss pneumatic (compressed gas) powered potato guns and related accessories. Valve types, actuation, pipe, materials, fittings, compressors, safety, gas choices, and more.
nice especially for a first. A bit blocky in my opinion, but nice. Do you use the ball valve to fire? how do you fill it etc., etc....
Edit sory I mean do you use a schrader valve to fill?
p.s. add some closeups of the gun along with some damage pics
p.p.s. you should ad a QEV (Quick Exhaust valve) You can buy one from McmasterCarr or from launch potatoes.com. a custom piston valve wouldn't be a bad idea either. it would help aiming and would tremendously increase power.
Last edited by spudmanb3 on Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:49 pm, edited 3 times in total.
it looks pretty cool - I like it a lot...
with a belt sander you could nicely round off the edges
good job on using threaded fittings on this - this will pay you ten fold in hte future
also it seems that you could easily mod this gun to use a QEV (in this way you could get MOAR power and use a blowgun where the trigger should be, which will improve both ergonomics and accuracy)
Actually, even though I don't like the position of the ball valve (for triggering) I think it's a great effort, and a beautiful looking launcher. Kudos on design
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Nice build, looking at the stock you can tell it took some time that said it doesn't look very ergonomic or that visually appealing. Why did you cut the back part out?
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I like the gun, the stock just a little to boxy for me as previously stated you should add a spring trigger system for the ball valve and take it to high pressures, also I really like your bolt on your breech
jonnyboy wrote:Nice build, looking at the stock you can tell it took some time that said it doesn't look very ergonomic or that visually appealing. Why did you cut the back part out?
it's for the looking of the gun, i dont like a full stock of wood.