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iamthewalrus · Sun May 29, 2005 9:06 pm

ok, i just thought of somthing crazy. this probly wouldnt work, but has any one ever tryed making a vortex gun with a huge, and i mean huge camber and putting a 3/4"cpvc barrel for PAINTBALLS??
it would just be a huge bbmg that shoots paintballs. u would just have to super size everything. the only thing im doubting is air pressure, can a compresor creat enough power to fire that many paintballs??
plz comment this. cuz if theres nothing wrong with it, and there prolly is, but if not SWEET

drac · Mon May 30, 2005 7:58 am

On the Spudtech forums it's been determined that large vortex blocks are impractical and use to much air. I think it was DR who built a ping pong ball BBMG, but it didn't work too well.

iamthewalrus · Mon May 30, 2005 7:59 am

ok, i knew something wouldnt work on it. i just love the idea of it.

spudshot · Mon May 30, 2005 8:55 am

he made a marble MG, marbles are heavier than paintballs, so maybe it'd work, but you'd need a HUGE resiviour to supply the air

iamthewalrus · Mon May 30, 2005 9:02 am

ik, how many gallons do u think u would need?

spudshot · Mon May 30, 2005 2:45 pm

i'd think about 120 gallons

iamthewalrus · Mon May 30, 2005 2:54 pm

haha, do they make them that big??

spudshot · Mon May 30, 2005 4:38 pm

yeah, and bigger, there was a 500 gallon tank on ebay before, it had a 24" flange fitting on it

and also i think a 1500 gallon has been on ebay before, i'd hate to pay the electric bill for that bad boy

UnrealityisReal · Tue May 31, 2005 7:08 am

I had a design for a paintball machine gun but I never built it because of the lack of money. Basically by using eithor a 3/4" QEV or a solenoid valve, along with a small chamber to accumulate air pressure (I'm thinking aproximately a 1:1 ratio between the chamber and the tee). The affect of this design is it jwould create a sort of burst fire pb machine gun. A 3" tee could be used as the hopper along with a paintball vortex block. The vortex block could be made with a 3" PVC rod with a 1.5" hole drilled in the center. The intake hole for the vortex should be drilled to 5/8" and the hole for firing the paintballs should be aproximately 11/16" (0.6875). I hope I explained that well enough and I'm not sure exactly how well it would work because i haven't seen a design like it before. I will try to post a diagram if anyone is interested.

spudshot · Tue May 31, 2005 8:35 am

you could also take my semi auto design (see http://semi-pb-gun.mypicgallery.com/ and http://semi-auto-gun.mypicgallery.com/ for more info) and use a 3 way solenoid valve on a timer circuit to make it open and close as long as you hold down a button

drac · Tue May 31, 2005 6:05 pm

Sorry bout the pessimism. If you have the resources, by all means, try it. There's nothing like a little R&D to further the spudgunning world. But if you do build it, you had better post some pics, because we'll all want to see it.

iamthewalrus · Tue May 31, 2005 6:21 pm

think i could jsut use like a 6 or so gallon and just get like 15 or so shots?? cuz a 80gallon on ebay is $3000

UnrealityisReal · Tue May 31, 2005 6:30 pm

One thing I will experiment with this summer is a simple cloud paintball machine gun. I will post the results when it is completed.

spudshot · Wed Jun 01, 2005 4:53 am

yeah, that may have been a bit eccessive, but i know DR got about 15 seconds in his marble machine gun using a 15 gal. tank and a 1" ball valve to dump all of the air.

Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:19 pm

I dont see how you could dump a gallon of air a second thats pretty fast.

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