ilovetoblowthingsup wrote:1) WHy did you make the hammer housing so long?
BEcause I wanted to have space to play with different springs
2) How did you determine the best spring? Did you just experiment til you found that it was allowing air out the outlet?
I started off with a spring that was just long enough to get the end of the hammer to touch the valve stem, then added progressively longer springs until I got it firing reliably
3) How are you gonna implement a trigger?
In this case I won't as it's not worth pursuing, but I outlined the details in the original concept were I to include a trigger.
4) In order to slow down the ROF... because it seems almost constant right now I cannot believe how fast it is. What you could do is enlarge the hammer spring housing tube. Step it up alot- that should allow it to slow down I think because the air will be forced to push a larger hammer back, but the disadvantage may be that the air won't be able to.
Do you mean enlarge the hammer diameter? I think this would be counterproductive as it would increase dead space and severely reduce the power available at the breech end.