Browning M2 Airsoft inline vortex project

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Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:10 pm

I started making the body for my inline vortex project finally and wanted to share with you guys. I spent allot of time modeling it up and cnc machined the body. I will probably be making a few of these guys as it seems pretty popular.

The design is 70% of the real guns size, here is my model:

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And the gun itself:

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More to come tomorrow, I will show pictures of the vortex block etc.
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Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:13 pm

God thats a beuty. More on construction please! Keep up the amazing work!
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Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:13 pm

Looking very good, calibre/pressure/pressure source?
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Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:26 pm

Very nice. what kind of FPS/RPS are you getting?
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Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:04 pm

Looking very good, calibre/pressure/pressure source?
Well i'm pretty sure its 6mm airsoft bbs because it says so in the title...
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Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:15 pm

Lockednloaded wrote:Well i'm pretty sure its 6mm airsoft bbs because it says so in the title...
Not necessarily ;)
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Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:17 pm

Lockednloaded wrote:
Looking very good, calibre/pressure/pressure source?
Well i'm pretty sure its 6mm airsoft bbs because it says so in the title...
not all airsoft bb's are 6mm.
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Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:20 pm

Touché, never played with those bb's myself, and i've never actually even seen a gun that shoots those type of bb's. I kind of doubt he uses them, but i guess its still an option
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Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:49 pm

There actually is an 8mm airsoft M2 which is commercially available.
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Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:45 pm

Looks very good. I have the same questions as above...rps...fps...
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Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:09 pm

There actually is an 8mm airsoft M2
it isn't a vortex.. any idea what design is used there ??
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Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:19 pm

POLAND_SPUD wrote:any idea what design is used there ??
I think this is the key:
electrically powered 2,000-round external box magazine shuffles 8mm BBs
It's not this but it's not purely air driven. Why not e-mail them about the wonders of DCVs :D :D :D
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Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:32 pm

Why not e-mail them about the wonders of DCVs
lol I realise it was a joke but it is possible that they used a solenoid valve + a simple PLC timer... just like what I used to turn semi auto MKII into a full auto gun
electrically powered 2,000-round external box magazine
that probably means that there is an electric motor to 'wind up' the mag.. similar to what is used on some airsoft guns
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Fri Mar 19, 2010 4:53 pm

Looks like an inline ram type of vortex block design; the central faux barrel and shroud is pvc. The rest looks to be metal.

Very nice setup - wish I had real machine tools at my disposal...hence my ammo can use as the main body of the gun :lol:

A solenoid valve with a circuit will still fire a vortex block and give it that cycle sound, it's just that several BBs fire on each cycle - I've done it. Adds to the realism and helps to tame the rapid disposal of BBs to a more realistic conservative figure.

I like it - looks great!
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Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:51 pm

Old project but finally made a video of it shooting:

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