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Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:22 pm

Douse any one know how much weight, stress, or pressure needs to be applyed to paintballs so they splater. I want to know the minimal weight needed. thanks.
p.s. I know that some paintballs brake easyer than others so a guess is suffise. Thanks again.
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Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:49 pm

Well, i had a blow gun 40 caliber, 54" long, and i was shooting at squirls eating from the bird feeders outside my liveing room window, about 50 feet. From time of the shot to impact was aproxx. .5 to 1 second. Half of them that hit the apple tree broke. Blow gun advertized 175 to 215 feet per second. Do the math weight/distance/speed, with a avage succes rate of half???

I should learn some more math, my knowlage is limited to machinic work, basicly.
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Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:01 pm

Well I want to math for how far the ball has to drop for it to splater of corse I could just do numerouse(sp?) tests which I like doing but just wondering if ther were a short-cut.
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Sat Mar 18, 2006 8:08 pm

Cheap Paintballs=.80 pounds
High Quality=.40
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Ah thanx that will help me.
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Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:20 pm

What? haylo_stealer...

I'v squeezed a paintball to failure before. So, I had by suspicions that your numbers where incorrect. Thus, I set up this testing procedure:

A throughly abused (several months old, inproper storage) "cheap paintball" (of some unknown brand) was placed between 2 plates. Force on plates was increased in increments of 1 lb.

Said paintball survived untill 11 lbs, at which the plates contacted each other, making further increases in force inpossible.
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Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:01 pm

Well I had several month old inproprly stored cheap paintballs and the paint in all if them were a rubbery paist from most likly dehydration so fresh paintballs will most likely brake easier.
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wow, good paintballs will shatter at, about a 6 foot hieght
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Wed May 31, 2006 5:08 pm

jus matters on which company you get from.some bust on concret from waist height some from 10ft in the air and still wont bust
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i got a jar of them and some popped super easily and some i shot ar ~475 FPS and they still didn't pop
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some paintballs if ur way over 300fps they will jus bounc and wont break
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Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:58 pm

i break paintballs by throwing them at the ground, thats not that much force
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