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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 9:56 pm
by PVC Arsenal 17
Just use motors...
I also disagree that a belt fed system is more simple than a revolver. And I disagree that either of those routes is even necessary to achieve what you want. If your only issue with a conventional magazine fed gun is that you'll lose cartridges, just make a shell catcher.
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 10:06 pm
by Lockednloaded
standard cartridge ejection with a shell catcher would meet all of my criteria, but I want something cooler than that, I may give a multibarrel launcher a go...
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 10:07 pm
by PVC Arsenal 17
Just out of curiosity, what type of ammo do you plan to fire?
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 10:15 pm
by Lockednloaded
well the shell are going to be 3/4" SCH 40 PVC. And I'll be shooting anything and everything; thats why shells are so attractive to me. I almost never shoot consistent ammo
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 12:43 am
by PVC Arsenal 17
Lockednloaded wrote:well the shell are going to be 3/4" SCH 40 PVC. And I'll be shooting anything and everything; thats why shells are so attractive to me. I almost never shoot consistent ammo
In a magazine fed system like my RSP, shells don't exactly diversify your range of ammo. If anything I'd say they restrict it. With shells, the length (and sometimes mass depending on loading system) of your projectiles is limited. Sabots, however, permit all sorts of oddly shaped things to be fired.
If you plan to make a multi-
barreled weapon then you shouldn't have any issues, but I wouldn't count on shells to give you diversity unless your weapon can be loaded with shells of varying lengths.
Re: belt fed cartidges
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:13 pm
by jackssmirkingrevenge
Lockednloaded wrote:I cant risk losing the cartridges when they eject, so I want to make a belt fed gun
The first thing that would spring to mind would be a brass catcher.
And yes,
Plow's design was pretty complex.
edit: hadn't seen PVC already suggested a brass catcher.
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 11:07 pm
by Lockednloaded
I'm really linking a multi-barrel system, 6 3/4" CPVC barrel in a circle, I've worked out a way to seal them, but I have no idea how to rotate them
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:07 pm
by Lockednloaded
I know there is a way to rotate them electronically, but its a little on the complicated side for me. Is there no mechanical way to rotate the barrels?
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:10 am
by grock
you could set up a cam system, i know theres a thread on here, it was a pump action one, pump backward, it moved halfway, pump foreward, it finished the 1/6th rotation
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:11 am
by jackssmirkingrevenge
Lockednloaded wrote:Is there no mechanical way to rotate the barrels?
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