carbon fibre pen gun

Miniature guns are novelty custom, unique, and sometime downright crude! Common construction materials often include pill bottles or pens. Show us your work!
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Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:16 pm

Haha :lol:

Looks really nice JSR, loving the carbon fibre! I'm guessing the metal parts are epoxied in and you didn't machine threads in the CF?
I wonder what the performance increase would be if you used .177 pellets... (With a .177 barrel, of course)
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I wonder what the performance increase would be if you used .177 pellets
there won't be any performace increase to be honest

heavier ammo equalls more efficient system - that's due to the speed of sound

so .22 cal version is more efficient than .177 cal - at least as far as energy put in by muzzle energy achieved is concerned - it could be different if you focus on penetration, which jsr has found to be better for .177 cal than .22 (IIRC)
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sharpshooter11000 wrote:I'm guessing the metal parts are epoxied in and you didn't machine threads in the CF?
Yup, epoxy to epoxy, dust to dust :)
there won't be any performace increase to be honest

heavier ammo equalls more efficient system - that's due to the speed of sound
Yup, for a given system, bigger bore and heavier projectile will give more muzzle energy.
so .22 cal version is more efficient than .177 cal - at least as far as energy put in by muzzle energy achieved is concerned - it could be different if you focus on penetration, which jsr has found to be better for .177 cal than .22 (IIRC)
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how many psi can this tubing handle?
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sagthegreat wrote:how many psi can this tubing handle?
It's not pressure rated, but given the 1:10 ratio of wall thickness to inner diameter, and small bore, I'm happy to take it to "normal" 300-400 psi pengun pressures.
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You make me want to give up, Jack. Carbon Fiber makes everything look cooler, I guess :D
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What is the highest psi/ smallest wall thickness steel we can get, lets make some pen guns that look like pens and go to 1000 psi, and sell them to the military
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Gun Freak wrote:You make me want to give up, Jack.
You misunderstood, I make you want to invest in machine tools :D
lets make some pen guns that look like pens and go to 1000 psi, and sell them to the military
The military have no use for pen guns, and if they did, they would probably use powder burning ones...
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How about upping pen gun with steroids and then put it to a cane? :D Shouldn't be too hard...
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jakethebeast wrote:How about upping pen gun with steroids and then put it to a cane? :D Shouldn't be too hard...
A cane gun would definitely have much more power due to the bigger volume and barrel length.

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Pretty cheap if one wanted to convert it...
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lets make some pen guns that look like pens and go to 1000 psi, and sell them to the military
The military have no use for pen guns, and if they did, they would probably use powder burning ones...[/quote]


Spys would have a use, and not to mention the types of substance that can be put on hollow tip pellets to make them "magical"
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sagthegreat wrote:Spys would have a use, and not to mention the types of substance that can be put on hollow tip pellets to make them "magical"
If you have magical substances then you don't need much power ;) if they do need power, powder burners offer it in a much more compact package:

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A pneumatic pen gun with the equivalent power to a 22 rimfire would have to be pretty huge.
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Sun Nov 11, 2012 6:39 pm

I want that firing cap thing up have. But I don't have a lathe...
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sagthegreat wrote:I want that firing cap thing up have. But I don't have a lathe...
You can make a request here ;) I'm sure someone nice can make you something for a few bucks.
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