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Exploding paintballs

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:04 pm
by SpudBlaster15
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:13 pm
by jrrdw
Look down the barrel with a light and see where the paint starts at. Maby a bur/need wadding/are your paint balls good quality? Do they fit the barrel snugly? Maby they are bouncing around in the barrel and breaking?
Just some thoughts on it.

Re: Exploding paintballs

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:23 pm
by MrCrowley
SpudBlaster15 wrote:I recently constructed a pnuematic paintball gun, and it fires extremely well, but lately I have been having issues with paintballs disintegrating before exiting the barrel, resulting in a cloud of yellow paint. Has anyone else had this problem?
Welcome to my world, I had the same prob and I narrowed it down to the breech loader, Turns out some pvc particles got stuck in there when it was painted and the paintball was slightly to big for the hole,it stays inside the breech but its resting against the walls so when it fires theres a huge amount of friction. I got my dremel out smoothed everything out and when I put the PB in the breech I push it foward a tiny bit and I havnt had the problem since.

Re: Exploding paintballs

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:26 pm
by pyromanic13
SpudBlaster15 wrote:I recently constructed a pnuematic paintball gun, and it fires extremely well, but lately I have been having issues with paintballs disintegrating before exiting the barrel, resulting in a cloud of yellow paint. Has anyone else had this problem?
sounds like your getting some chops. make sure your paint is decent. is your gun fast? maby get a force feed hopper or turn down you firing speed if its electro.

Re: Exploding paintballs

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:29 pm
by Scope
pyromanic13 wrote:
SpudBlaster15 wrote:I recently constructed a pnuematic paintball gun, and it fires extremely well, but lately I have been having issues with paintballs disintegrating before exiting the barrel, resulting in a cloud of yellow paint. Has anyone else had this problem?


sounds like your getting some chops. make sure your paint is decent. is your gun fast? maybe get a force feed hopper or turn down you firing speed if its electro.


I think he is talking about a single shot... If he designed his own semi automatic paintball gun then he would prob be able to fix that problem

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:50 pm
by pyromanic13
ahh... didn't realize he MADE it.

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:23 am
by SpudBlaster15
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:34 am
by Zorrowannabe9
I have never had my paintball cannon break a ball, and it shoots over 800fps. Might wanna make sure theres no obstruction in your barrel

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:28 am
by ProfessorAmadeus
What was the problem?

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:17 pm
by SpudBlaster15
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:22 pm
by Scope
are you serious... you think a closed bolt or even openbolt semi automatic paintball gun would be easy to make??

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:48 pm
by garrettee
SpudBlaster15 what size pipe did you use for a barrel? I've been designing but undecided on a barrel size. Your or anyones imput would help.

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:53 pm
by MrCrowley
you can use 3/4" PVC or CPVC but 1/2" SDR is the best.

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:54 pm
by PVC Arsenal 17
garrettee, use 3/4" CPVC or 1/2" SDR 13.5 PVC. Both are decent fits.


What kind of paint are you using? They could be crappy or stale and the air pressure just disintegrates them.

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:09 pm
by garrettee
Thanks guys, hopefully ill be posting one new paintball cannon before to long.