clean, yet serviceable?

Cannons powered by pneumatic pressure (compressed gas) using a valve or other release.
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due to the fact that my newest piston cannon will not have a round back (oh, the joys of epoxy :P ), it will not be possible to attach a male/female adapter to make the piston serviceable.
Judging from various supah, and other valves enclosed in a "T" , I should be able to have a pipe pressed against a o-ring, held in place by several screws, and it'll hold a respectable amount of pressure right?
I hate to be stuck with having to use a hacksaw to service my pistons like JSR...

edit: had to change FMJ to JSR ... still stuck in the old spudtech days.... lol
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If you build it just right you shouldn't have any problems. "Old Spudtech days" you should have known this, yes? no?
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well yea, but guessing spring tensions and stuff like that is always a pain
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I use a piece of wooden dowel inbetween my sprinkler valve and spring. When I screw my sprinkle valve on there is about 1 threads lenth of tension pushing against my piston. My cannon fires nicely from 15psi to 100psi.
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