The Full Auto Thread

Show us your pneumatic spud gun! Discuss pneumatic (compressed gas) powered potato guns and related accessories. Valve types, actuation, pipe, materials, fittings, compressors, safety, gas choices, and more.
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Fri Jan 30, 2009 8:52 am

I think we should start a thread to list and generalize the different passive designs used in hope of producing full auto. generally what I mean by passive is anything with a circuit board is out.
I think they can all be categorised into the following categories
piston clide's semi/full auto golfball cannon or a home made popoff relief valve
sprinkler/qev a poppet piloted qev, a sprinkler valve triggered by a pressure switch
hammer valve blowforward or blowback poppet
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Fri Jan 30, 2009 8:59 am

QEV/piston piloted by a slide check for a simple semi-auto, add a ram for full. Drawback is that this design has nothing to prevent the chamber from dumping out all air pressure.

And I just posted a theory to conserve that air in your chamber:
The shutoff piston.
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Fri Jan 30, 2009 12:04 pm

Have a look at this thread.
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Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:44 pm

oh yeah that thread
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