Can't help you with solenoids except to say that they're probably orders of magnitude too slow for what you want. I can't even necessarily help with the latter part, but I can give some gut feel. Would like to find out about some new stuff if I can, maybe something along the lines of how much PSI sh...

What I meant was I'd drill a hole at the end of the gas canister and then epoxy on the Schrader valve in the end for it to accept air instead of gas. But your saying that it's impossible? Nothing's impossible. But at a guess, the walls of that canister are no thicker than 0.5 mm or so. That's super...

At a guess, that can's gonna be super thin, which would make modding it pretty difficult. I'd be more tempted to look at a discarded 60l oxygen canister or maybe a fire extinguisher CO2 recharge canister. Rather than modifying a canister, try talking to a local machinist, see if they can make up a t...

But it's pretty damn next level.

It's used for shooting big mother buckers.

> Obviously the downside is the spring isn't variable so a different spring would be needed for a given mix.

A threaded boss at the rear can increase or reduce preload on the spring within a certain range, although this will also reduce spring travel.

So, spent some time stripping down a bit. Managed to unblock the tooling and the Z axis, (hooray for hand winches), loking at the scraping marks on the slideways and gibs I thought to myself "that's been rescraped", but given the way the gibs fit, I'd be surprised if it's done many hours from new. D...

It's been a while that I've been looking for a smallish milling machine to go with my smallish lathe(s). Yes, I am aware that the chinese make some fairly capable small milling machines. But I simply don't like them. Horrible yucky plastic tat. Id far rather something made of great big chunks of cas...

No idea how to resolve the problem. Just posting to say "Whoah what the fuck you're clearly my kind of absolute fucking maniac" 🤘

That's pretty cool.

Nice. Comme dit hector, le cuivre ne risque pas d'aimer cette utilisation. Tube acier sans soudure Ø20, ep2 te donnera Øint de 16mm, ce n'est pas trop cher - https://lamtechno.com/tube-acier-de-precision-e235n-rond-sans-soudure-cintrable/90-381-tube-acier-sans-soudure-cintrable-diametre-20.html#/23-...

Good question. The force being applied to the barrel will be compression, rather than tensile, and PVC (like many materials) is stronger in that respect. Tensile strength of rigid PVC, 34 … 62 MPa, Compressive strength 55 … 89. So in that respect, you're probably OK. However. These figures are signi...

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Sat Mar 27, 2021 11:56 am

I get what you are saying, I might not get any real velocity gain from it. That being said, the entry fee for evacuating the air from the barrel is low on my setup and i might play with it at a later time.

You owe it to yourself to try :)

Outstanding!

Back in the day, we used to do that to bike parts. "Drillium", it was called.