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Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:45 pm
Gippeto wrote:How about this for a primary piston?
it would have to be a tight fit to seal well though, or include a rubber seal.
Here's what I had in mind:
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hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:46 pm
Yeah, I did get that. I forget sometimes that not everyone has access to a lathe. With a lathe it would be easy to do it my way. Adding seals is not really an issue either. ((again- if you have a lathe)access to industrial seal suppliers is also a bonus
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Regardless, kudos to you for thinking off the beaten path, this may well be the piston everyone is using next year!!
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Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:46 pm
I don't know about that, for the majority of spudders simplicity rocks, but some of us refuse to settle for mediocrity.
A possible further improvement of this design would eliminate pilot volume completely by using a latch trigger as I had done with
this project:
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hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:56 am
I bet the trigger pull on that one was very "enfield" like.
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(used to have a mk 4)
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