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Well I'm in the planning stage of building my first vortex(and BBMG for that matter).My question is,what size pipe does everyone use to build there BB chamber?I'm leaning towards 1 1/2" cause i have alot of it laying around the house.What would ya'll recommend?

This depends on what your shooting, and how large you want your capicity to be. if your using .177 metal bb's id say go with the 1 1/2. But 6mm airsoft's are larger so you would probably want 2" for that.

1 1/2" 1 1/4" and 1" work great, it depends on how much ammo you wnat to use.
and teh smaller, the more power.

I'm going to shoot airsoft BB's in the current gun.

I usually use 1" SDR 21 or 1 1/4," it fits my usually vortex block size well, holds plenty of ammo, and is compact and powerful. It also doesn't look huge and is capable of looking like cool little SMGs.
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Thanks guys,I was thinking that the smaller would be better but I noticed alot of people using what looked like 2".Well, look for my new gun in a couple of weeks.I promise it will have some new features never before seen(if they work out )

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Is it going to be an inline gun or the T design?

inline vortex is what I was planning on

If you use a "half hole" vortex block (which I heartily advise), go with a size smaller than 2," unless you want the barrel coming out of the very bottom of the gun.

I used 2" and a half hole block, i jsut made my vortex hole bigger.

Well,this evening I made a 1 1/8" vortex block inside a 1 1/2" pipe.Lets hope it works.The barrel comes out dead center in my plug and my block sits perfect in the pipe.It just kinda worked out perfect,hows that for luck.