Paintball combustion?

Boom! The classic potato gun harnesses the combustion of flammable vapor. Show us your combustion spud gun and discuss fuels, ratios, safety, ignition systems, tools, and more.
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Mon May 12, 2008 4:28 pm

I recently made a combustion gun (pics and hopefully video coming soon) that would work well for paint balls. We shot marbles and home-made wooden/bolt ammo with success. It was a 4 ft. 3/4" Sch. 40 PVC barrel, and a 2" Y PVC chamber, with BBQ ignitor. Your basic spray & pray but it was worth half a day of very fun shooting. We shot wadded marbles and put dents in a wooden fence.

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Tue May 13, 2008 8:31 am

Hi, I have a diagram here that shows exaclty how the Tippmann C-3 works:
http://www.zdspb.com/media/tech/animations/c3_2.gif
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Wed May 14, 2008 5:31 pm

Well sorry crowley and jrrdw but with 30+ pages I dont want to be on my computer all night.
The definition of spudcannon should include combustion, if I wanted to shoot a pneumatic I'd go get my paintball gun.
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Wed May 14, 2008 5:42 pm

It's called filtering. Use the recommendations by the search feature to narrow your results down and use key words.

I just searched 'AND paintball AND combustion' in the General section and found this straight away:
http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/combust ... t1131.html
http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/2-questions-t893.html

Then I just searched 'paintball' in the combustion section and found:
http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/combust ... t5575.html
http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/combust ... 11819.html
http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/pump-ac ... 11142.html
http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/paintba ... t9986.html
http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/idea-t7701.html
http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/paintba ... t6277.html

Then searching in the combustion showcase section, again with 'paintball' as the search term I found:
http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/combust ... t1085.html

And about 15 others that i'm not going to bother to link.

And there's probably more if you search the How-To section as well.

So for once, please use your head.

That took me less then 5 minutes, so i'm not sure what your definition of 'all night' is.
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Wed May 14, 2008 8:49 pm

sighs...

MrCrowley, i was debating about doing what you just did, but decided not to on grounds of it might sound like i'm being a jerk... but you did it for me!!

Cool...
"Some say his pet elephant is pink, and that he has no understanding of "PG rated forum". All we know is, he's called JSR. "
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Thu May 15, 2008 5:28 am

ilovetoblowthingsup wrote:sighs...

MrCrowley, i was debating about doing what you just did, but decided not to on grounds of it might sound like i'm being a jerk... but you did it for me!!

Cool...
So you state he is a jerk? :lol:



Another search hint:
If you put something between " " then you can search for everything thats between in that exact order.
If you would search for paintball combustion you would find EVERY page with the word paintball OR the word combustion on it.
If you would search for "paintball combustion" you will find every page with the exact query paintball combustion on it.
The use of "" makes you search for a handfull of words in that exact order.
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Thu May 15, 2008 6:09 am

Great hint I forgot about psycix.

I think searching 'AND paintball AND combustion' brings up every page that has both the words 'paintball' and 'combustion' in it. But your way could narrow those results even more.
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Thu May 15, 2008 11:46 am

no i thought that coming from me, an ordinary member might make me sound like a jerk.

IF MrCrowley does it thats different because he's MrCrowley
"Some say his pet elephant is pink, and that he has no understanding of "PG rated forum". All we know is, he's called JSR. "
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Thu May 15, 2008 4:49 pm

ilovetoblowthingsup wrote:no i thought that coming from me, an ordinary member might make me sound like a jerk.

IF MrCrowley does it thats different because he's MrCrowley
Ohh okay I see.
So just because hes a mod he can do jerk things, and if anyone would call him jerk he could just ban the guy... :roll:
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Thu May 15, 2008 5:22 pm

This guy is either not coming back or he's still spending most of the night searching for topics...even though we linked them to him... :roll:

Oh well. Locked :)
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