Paintball Sniper's Smoothbore
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:55 pm
Just thought I would be "politically" correct with the title.
This is my latest project, it is a launcher designed to shoot paintballs at 450 feet per second and still bet a decent number of shots out of the air tank. It is a simple bolt action paintball launcher with a small slit in the barrel with a small piece of bike inner tube in it to keep paintballs from rolling out of the barrel when the launcher is aimed downward.
I had the idea of using a pressure switch to turn on a LED that would warn me when the pressure in my air reservoir drops below a certain point. My compressor decided that it didn't want to work any more, so I took it apart and used the pressure switch from it. The pressure switch is 70 PSI on, 100 PSI off, so I designed the chamber for the launcher so that it will shoot approximately 450 FPS @ 70 PSI.
I am not completely finished with this launcher, there are a number of things I want to do to improve it, such as a magazine and a paint job.
EDIT: I tried to upload a few more pics but it won't work, I will try again later.
This is my latest project, it is a launcher designed to shoot paintballs at 450 feet per second and still bet a decent number of shots out of the air tank. It is a simple bolt action paintball launcher with a small slit in the barrel with a small piece of bike inner tube in it to keep paintballs from rolling out of the barrel when the launcher is aimed downward.
I had the idea of using a pressure switch to turn on a LED that would warn me when the pressure in my air reservoir drops below a certain point. My compressor decided that it didn't want to work any more, so I took it apart and used the pressure switch from it. The pressure switch is 70 PSI on, 100 PSI off, so I designed the chamber for the launcher so that it will shoot approximately 450 FPS @ 70 PSI.
I am not completely finished with this launcher, there are a number of things I want to do to improve it, such as a magazine and a paint job.
EDIT: I tried to upload a few more pics but it won't work, I will try again later.