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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:50 am
by flamerz14
Its cheaper....but i don't know if there's any cheaper..what brand u using for your paintballs? I need a small amount only. somewhere about 200 rounds.

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:57 am
by spud yeti
I dont know the make of mine because my step cousin supplies me with "noname" paintballs from the factory, because he's sponsored :D
I'll ask him what he uses in tournament etc though

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:02 am
by flamerz14
nay, I heard training PBs are heck lot cheaper..

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:06 am
by spud yeti
Yeah, they are. They about 1/2 if not 1/3 of the price of tournament balls!

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:32 pm
by flamerz14
I found cheaper paintballs..these are SupaSplat 0.50 cal paintballs in a 320 round pack Image. what mm barrell will they fit in?

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:47 pm
by spud yeti
.50 cal? Usually paintballs are .68 as far as I know, so they probably cheap ones for "play guns". I'm not sure if you should rather just spend the extra few bucks and buy better quality, ey.

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:49 pm
by potatoflinger
I think that .50 cal paintballs will work in a 13 mm barrel, but I'm not sure.

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 3:06 pm
by flamerz14
OK..just realised. the 0.50cal paintballs were for playguns. I wanna get 500 rounds of RP Scherer Stingers Paintballs.They'll cost me about 35 SGD with shipping..idk if its training paintballs I cant find any on xtremepaintball.

btw how do u calc what mm barrell to use from the ammo caliber?

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 3:20 pm
by iknowmy3tables
you can use any ruler with inch and and a little fraction decimal calculation, the .30, .22, .50 caliber system is the diameter of the projectile in decimal form .50

examples: .50cal=12.5mm=1/2in
.22cal=5.56mm= almost 1/4

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 3:33 pm
by flamerz14
so .68 cal will be? and about C:B ratio while we're at it...i read somewhere that pneumatic can have up to a infinitive chamber volume..is this true?

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 4:57 pm
by iknowmy3tables
so .68 cal will be?
you'll have to calculate that yourself if I had my ti-83 calculator with the unit converter program I'd do it but I don't so it a real task, I'm here to share my knowledge not to doo stuff for you
i read somewhere that pneumatic can have up to a infinitive chamber volume..is this true?
theoretically but there's only so much pvc in the world and it's only so big before its considered ridiculous

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:10 pm
by paaiyan
.68 is 12.272mm. Bit off-topic, does anyone know if anyone makes glow-in-the-dark paintballs? I mean glow-in-the-dark paint and everything, not just the shell.

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:39 pm
by VH_man
cant you use a hypodermic needle to fill paintballs with whatever you choose? or am i wrong. i saw it in a movie where they filled them with liquid nitrogen and shot them at time traveling people to bring them back to where they started.

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:45 pm
by paaiyan
VH_man wrote:cant you use a hypodermic needle to fill paintballs with whatever you choose? or am i wrong. i saw it in a movie where they filled them with liquid nitrogen and shot them at time traveling people to bring them back to where they started.
Could you? Yes. Am I really going to drain and refill hundreds of paintballs? Heck no. I want premade, I'm a DIY kinda guy, but that's a little extreme.

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:39 pm
by VH_man
i would fill some pb's with india ink or something and have some fun making things black..........

or various other uses, such as pelting a wasps nest with 50 paintballs filled with wasp poison.

i see uses for it. and it shouldnt take that long. just poke, suck, spit, poke, spit, remove. do that 2000+ times. just watch TV while you do it.

but then, i am the guy who made over 2000 homemade nerf darts in one day.....