Um, for full auto, it's not that hard. I had adapted a broken suction feed sandblaster as the trigger, in the same position as on a M2. I had the firing mech worked out, I just had problems with the feed. I could get the little [.40] paintballs to feed, but the standard size [.68] ones I couldn't feed to save my life. Gravity feed worked, but I got the .40 caliber ones to work on a bastardized suction feed using a broken suction feed sandblaster as my basis. The problem with the .40 paintballs is they are soooo much more expensive than the big ones... and they move a bit faster, too. ;-)
>>> jon@dakota-truck.net 06/19/03 03:58PM >>>
"BARRY OLIVER" <DHSPA58@dhs.state.il.us> wrote:
: ..Because I am going to the mid-ohio Supebike races that same weekend. I was thinking of buzzing up Saturday evening (or maybe Friday night) to see everybody depending on when the races end, but I don't know when... Actually, that's a project I have been working on, it's sitting right next to my golf-ball launcher. I am working on feeding issues with both, and how to make a constant air supply work for the paintball gun. The golfball cannon uses propane for motivation, but I doubt I could adapt that
to fragile paintballs...
I would think that it would require a high pressure valve which would
open very quickly (sounds expensive). :-( A large CO2 tank would take
care of the supply - would just have to make sure to keep the line size
adequate, and of course find a solenoid capable of flowing enough CO2
and opening fast enough to fire the paintball.
I gave it some thought when I thunk up the idea and was very
tempted to look into it further and build something, but I don't
play paintball so it would have no use to me. Still, it was very
hard to resist diving deeper into it, just for the "cool" factor. :-)
---Jon-
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