bringing up an older topic...PVC barrels with CO2
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 6:58 pm
hey all-About a year ago I made a topic about using PVC as a barrel with CO2, and it kind of died because I didn't really need it anymore..
But now I do so I'm making a new topic.
This gun is going to be an undermount for paintball on my a5. The chamber volume is ~~3 in^3, and all steel. This will be used with unregged CO2 because that's the only way I can get enough power to push the balls far enough or hard enough to break with that small of a chamber.
It is a coaxial style gun...
And right now using all steel it is incredibly heavy, probably too heavy to actually be able to use.
So I was wondering if I could use PVC as the barrel- 1.25" to be exact.
The ammo is only about 9 paintballs wadded with paper towelling- no tight fitting ammo. Also maybe 2 oz paint grenades.
I was going to sleeve the barrel in 1.25" couplings just as another precautionary.
What do you think? Really i'm not using tight fitting ammo at all... not even air-tight really.
Just want to double check before I proceed with it...
EDIT: I may just use all steel and suffer the consequences of like a five -eight pound undermounted grenade launcher.... Cuz I really want to err on the safe side.
But now I do so I'm making a new topic.
This gun is going to be an undermount for paintball on my a5. The chamber volume is ~~3 in^3, and all steel. This will be used with unregged CO2 because that's the only way I can get enough power to push the balls far enough or hard enough to break with that small of a chamber.
It is a coaxial style gun...
And right now using all steel it is incredibly heavy, probably too heavy to actually be able to use.
So I was wondering if I could use PVC as the barrel- 1.25" to be exact.
The ammo is only about 9 paintballs wadded with paper towelling- no tight fitting ammo. Also maybe 2 oz paint grenades.
I was going to sleeve the barrel in 1.25" couplings just as another precautionary.
What do you think? Really i'm not using tight fitting ammo at all... not even air-tight really.
Just want to double check before I proceed with it...
EDIT: I may just use all steel and suffer the consequences of like a five -eight pound undermounted grenade launcher.... Cuz I really want to err on the safe side.