You left out a piece. If nothing caps the gas entering the gun, the spring will never recock the gun for the next shot.
If you want to build a home-brew gun, I say go for it. Practices like this are the same explorative building that has created C6C and several other now battle tested technologies. Hobbies strike different people in different ways. Some people build because they love to build. To others, building is just the prerequisite for battle. If you have fun doing it, who can say you did it wrong. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Måne Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 10:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TANKS] air cannon prototype Ryan, I don't quite understand the mechanism you described. How does the spring device seal the chamber? I read about a fairly simple gun design that you might be interested in trying. Attached is a scan of a representation I drew. The gas enters from a valve into the gun, filling up the space behind the bolt. The bolt then rushes forward (compressing the spring) until it runs off of the rear piece. This allows the gas to flow through the bolt, propelling a single paintball forward. Once the gas stops, the spring returns the bolt, loading the next paintball. Any ideas? -Mike M. On 05/07/2010, ryan wells <[email protected]> wrote: > > The way it works is that when the ball loads into the barrel it > prevents other balls from falling in. second when the valve opens it > pushes the spring loaded device which seals the chamber. when the air > closes the device returns and another ball loads. > > Ryan P. > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAG > L:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 > > -- > You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] To > unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat > -- You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat -- You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat
