Pneumatic Pen-gun Project

Miniature guns are novelty custom, unique, and sometime downright crude! Common construction materials often include pill bottles or pens. Show us your work!
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Tue May 08, 2007 10:22 pm

If you build the cartridge with the schrader at the base of it, there's no need to come up with an innovative design - you have ever a century of cartridge firearm mechanism development for reference ;)

It's on my "to do" list but I'm working on something else at the moment.
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Tue May 08, 2007 10:37 pm

This is pretty sweet. I bet this'd be awesome to piss teachers off at school. If you had a way to refill it there.
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Tue May 08, 2007 10:48 pm

paaiyan wrote:This is pretty sweet. I bet this'd be awesome to piss teachers off at school. If you had a way to refill it there.
The pump I use is very compact when folded, only slightly longer than the launcher itself - though of course I don't in any way advocate or condone its use for malicious purposes.
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Tue May 08, 2007 10:49 pm

jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:
paaiyan wrote:This is pretty sweet. I bet this'd be awesome to piss teachers off at school. If you had a way to refill it there.
The pump I use is very compact when folded, only slightly longer than the launcher itself - though of course I don't in any way advocate or condone its use for malicious purposes.
Oh of course not. :wink:
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Tue May 08, 2007 11:27 pm

I don't understand, how does this work? Wouldn't pushing on the end vent the pressure out of the shrader? Thus doing nothing? How does this...?
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Tue May 08, 2007 11:30 pm

Yes it does vent it but only behind the piston. The piston moves back and lets the air in front of the piston out the barrel. It is a barrel sealing co-axial if you want to research it.
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Wed May 09, 2007 12:12 am

OH!! *mind block blows up* I get it now!! I could never understand how co-axials work until now. It relieves the pressure just enough for the piston to move back and "unclog" the barrel, then pow! I am so glad I finally got it!!
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Wed May 09, 2007 3:10 am

ammosmoke wrote:I am so glad I finally got it!!
You've been a member since September and only got it now :? Ah well, better late than never :wink:
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Wed May 09, 2007 6:41 pm

Why isn't your entry in the voting list?
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Wed May 09, 2007 6:43 pm

His gun is the only mini it automatics moves to the next round.
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Wed May 09, 2007 6:43 pm

oops...forgot it was a mini
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Fri May 11, 2007 11:25 am

Very innovative. This probably qualifies as one of the smallest spudguns in history.

My only really mini "cannon" to date was a coilgun. My brother then of course had to come up with something twice as good, and three times as efficent, but it was still damned fun.
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Fri May 11, 2007 1:01 pm

If it isnt a secret, what did your bro come up with?
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Fri May 11, 2007 1:23 pm

joannaardway wrote:Very innovative. This probably qualifies as one of the smallest spudguns in history.
Thanks :)

The smallest semi-amateur pneumatic I can think of is this device: pop-shot micro gun - chambered in 0.177 using the Brocock micro air cartridge (now illegal in the UK thanks to your lovely government :P) at about 900 psi.

I haven't seen a smaller co-axial though :D I could easily have gone smaller lengthwise but I wanted some measure of power.
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Fri May 11, 2007 7:57 pm

THat is so CoOl!!! I wish I had one of those key chain guns!!! They cost so much though... WAAAAHHH!!!
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