therory for a pneumatic gun

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Sun Aug 24, 2008 6:40 pm

i am new to pneumatics guns and i am thinking of builfding a cheap gun. but any way here i s my theory. i am thinking of having 2 chambers separated by a ball valve. you fill one chamber then the other then you realse the blall valve in the middle to have a lot of air pressure. look at the picture any idea if this could increase my total air pressure in a gun or not.
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Sun Aug 24, 2008 6:47 pm

the pressure will stay the same, but it could work for multiple shots fairly quickly
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Sun Aug 24, 2008 7:13 pm

You should really swap out the ball valve for a sprinkler valve. No point in having all that air stored up if the projectile's gonna be gone before all the air can all be dumped.

Just me opinion :roll:
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Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:50 pm

nothing new, but a sound concept, for a significant number of shots I recommend a second chamber at least ten times as big
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