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first new thread! anyway, my computer does not want to let me upload pics online so all i have is a video. the barrel is a pen tube joined to a marker casing, the air tank is 1.5litres.
the thing shoots so fast that i cant capture it firing on the camera, in slow motion there arent holes in the paper one second, the next second there are

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Interesting, I would say the sprinkler valve is a little overkill when you could have used the blowgun directly for probably the same performance and better air economy but well put together.

thanks, ive tried the blowgun by its self, but this has so much more power its just incomparable. also a just installed a 3litre bottle in place of the 1.5, its awsome!!

what type of mechanism are you using? I am guessing that you are just putting the bbs in the yellow tube but am not sure.

dont think the system has a name, i fill the tee with bbs and they either stay there or go down the tube. regardless of where they are in the plumbing, when i pull the trigger, they all come out at high speed

thanks for the info, simple design, now I see why you used the sprinkler valve.

Looks pretty clean, nice gun. BTW that systems typically referred to as a cloud

I'm not even sure if that is a cloud... It's almost like a normal sprinkler-valve cannon that just manages a few shots in rapid succession by loading them in with the flow from chamber to barrel. Doesn't a cloud require a cloud chamber?

saefroch wrote:I'm not even sure if that is a cloud... It's almost like a normal sprinkler-valve cannon that just manages a few shots in rapid succession by loading them in with the flow from chamber to barrel. Doesn't a cloud require a cloud chamber?

I think it's pretty close to a vogt-pattern.

Or, depending on where the BB's are when the trigger is depressed, perhaps that one thing JSR built a while ago that <s>didn't work</s> actually worked and didn't even explode where he just shoved BB's into a (bent) tube attached to a barrel and dumped HPA into the other end.

ramses wrote:didn't explode

You would have thought that would have made it easy to find

jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:

ramses wrote:didn't explode

You would have thought that would have made it easy to find

no, the fact that it worked (which I didn't realize at the time) should have made it easy to find.

Anyway...

ramses wrote:Anyway...

Indeed...