Mini Piston Valve

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Kobl
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Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:49 pm

No, it's not a help topic *hooray*

Here's the 1/4" 6mm porting piston valve I just built to actuate the piston valve for my upcoming all steal c02 fed marble cannon.

The piston is just hot glue at the moment but I just got the epoxy poured so a cast epoxy piston should be a comin' in the next 24 hours or so.

Heres a pic:

<a href="http://s184.photobucket.com/albums/x58/ ... G_1916.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x58/ ... G_1916.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
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Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:57 pm

Looks good and small :D .
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Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:03 pm

Nice and simple.

Having both the sealing face and the piston chute adjustable - since they are threaded - you can toy with the piston stroke. One element of piston valves that are set in standard piston construction.

Thanks for posting, giving me ideas...

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Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:06 pm

Nice, clean and powerful (for its size).
Good job!
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Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:59 pm

psycix wrote:Nice, clean and powerful (for its size).
Good job!
Uhh... Did the author ever make reference to the valves power?
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Fri Jul 18, 2008 4:18 pm

You guys won't be getting any more info until I get my epoxy casting setup worked it out. It's really pissing me off, my 1/2" 'poxy piston is taking well over 24 hours to dry, I think I got the mix hideously wrong. :/
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Fri Jul 18, 2008 4:25 pm

You can tell how awesome a cannon is by the pressure used.
http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/high-pr ... 12803.html
xnt rnm ne z ahtbg
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Fri Jul 18, 2008 4:27 pm

Yeah, but I keep fuckin' it up.
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Fri Jul 18, 2008 4:28 pm

Whut poxy ya yuzzin. Had a urge.
You can tell how awesome a cannon is by the pressure used.
http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/high-pr ... 12803.html
xnt rnm ne z ahtbg
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Fri Jul 18, 2008 4:58 pm

Hold on a tick I'll post a pic.
Its not legit so to say but its the only stuff I could find without ordering online.

I think my main problem is that I just eye-balled the mix, I'm gonna use a syringe this time around though.

The wrapper:

<a href="http://s184.photobucket.com/albums/x58/ ... G_1925.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x58/ ... G_1925.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

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<a href="http://s184.photobucket.com/albums/x58/ ... G_1927.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x58/ ... G_1927.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

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What lies inside:

<a href="http://s184.photobucket.com/albums/x58/ ... G_1929.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x58/ ... G_1929.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
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Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:52 pm

Um is that meant for flowers? Can't have very much strength can it? I think a box of epoxy with everlasting elegance on it shouldn't be used for pressure applications.
You can tell how awesome a cannon is by the pressure used.
http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/high-pr ... 12803.html
xnt rnm ne z ahtbg
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Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:04 pm

I think its just epoxy dressed up in a fancy package...
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Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:25 pm

It looks like it could be casting resin, but i would just use normal 2 dollar epoxy if that doesnt work.
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Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:00 pm

pimpmann22 wrote:
psycix wrote:Nice, clean and powerful (for its size).
Good job!
Uhh... Did the author ever make reference to the valves power?
A little off topic, but that is so funny. I was seriously laughing my ass off. And also, I didn't know you could swear...Before it used to say fork...I wanna try. Fuck. How come it says fork for me? =( Le sad.
What a waste of 300 spud bux.
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Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:33 pm

fuck

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