Lathe-less Inline Vortex with air driven ram...

mobile chernobyl · Posted: 01/09/2007 0:52 AM Post subject:

well, it took me all of about 12 hours from inspiration to decimation....

The challenge:

I liked Mr. Plow's inline vortex design ALOT! its pretty genious, and even if he wasnt the orignal creator of it, it was still made so nicely that it inspired me to make one, somehow, someway. The whole inlineness of it just made it look cool and streamlined.

I was going to reverse engineer it purely by pictures...
AND make it better

The problem:

I dont have a lathe.

and the brushes just went on my dremel.

oh sh!t.

The solution:

Sorry if i led anyone on... but come on haha! I may be new to this forum but if i can understand how anything works, i can certainly make it simpler and most of the times better. I'm a mechanical engineer at college right now and stuff like this is what i live for, to keep my mind occupied while i sit through classes and what not. I love making up ideas in my head, and i seem to be getting better as i get older.

This design can be made by ANYONE!! and its absolutely devistatingly awsome. total parts cost was pretty much exactly $50 for EVERYTHING. I'm just a little hyped up right now cause i just got done working on it for 4-6 hrs, and its midnight, and i just poored the bb's outta my cloud i made last night and into this gun, plugged the air in, and not really expecting it to work on the first try pulled the trigger valve and pffffffffffttttttttttttttttttt omg!!! the sound of it perfectly ripping through a cardboard box made me giggity giggity haha. Here is what i made last night

HAHA a simple little cloud, that was my first venture into bbmg's. It worked great but the bb's deformed the soft copper barrel.

Needless to say i've just been running my mouth, so lets get down to business.

This design is just about identical to mr. plow's in concept however there was no lathing involved, just the use of the convienent snug fit of a 1.25 end cap in 2" pvc. the vortex block is "milled" from hard ash (the stuff they make baseball bats outta). the spring driven ram to reduce the size of the chamber is where i got creative. I've helped design concept paintball guns with a guy at smartparts before, and i gathered alot of that knowledge into this gun. well its really simple actually, the spring driven ram, is just a 1.25 end cap piston. this works perfect because its snug enough of a fit to reduce the ammo chamber size, but it also has a perfect amount of blow by to not crush the ammo. the blow by then aids in propelling the bb's, so nothings wasted. sweet.

Barrels threaded through a fliped around 1.25 end cap into the vortex block, using the included compression fitting.

theres not much more i can think of thats important to know, i mean just look at it its pretty much self explanitory, but if anyone wants a diagram, let me know. just to restate the obvious, everything to make this gun and my other two copper rifles can be purchased right from homedepot. i dont have a mille or lathe, so i have to be resourceful, and hell, i think this one turned out pretty good looking.

mc