Shop Vac powered vortex?

[noname]

Simple question: could I power a vortex BBMG with a shop vac?

[benstern]

i think so..... but the speed of the BBs would suck.
also, you might overheat the shop vac motor.

[carlbelcher]

If you think about the velocity of the air coming out of some of those shop vacs. and given that you compress the air flow down to a BB sized air stream I wouldn't be surprised if it works really well.

[benstern]

Good point. What model shop vac are you going to use?

you would also need to make an adapter to go from a shop vac hose to quick connector size hose/connector.

[Urban Ninja]

The only problem is shop vacs are pretty big unless you get one of those small hand ones, like dust busters. I would say it would work pretty well, I might try to make a cloud bbmg with that concept.

[benstern]

You could get even better preformance with a leaf blower.
their output is like 200 MPH with a 2" outlet

leaf blowers are also easier to carry around.

[Velocity]

My 6.5 HP shop-vac is a beast... its got 175 MPH output out of a 1.5"-2" outlet

Maybe not QUITE as good as a leaf blower... but its no slouch

[benstern]

just tested on my leafblower, it does NOT work!

my leaf blower is powerful, but with the BBMG attached it had the preformance of a asthmatic smoker's lung.

[noname]

Mine is like 10 gallon, and it is LOUD. The output is 1.5" or 2" but I can reduce it down to size. I have the BBMG all put together and it has kind of a vortex block but not really.

[benstern]

mine is a cloud. I took a 2" cap and put ducttape around the outside and put that into the outlet of the leafblower. i inserted a hose fitting, and ran a 3.5 foot 3/8" hose from the adapter to the BBMG.

http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2545&

[noname]

That's an easy way to do it. I'll probably use that thanks. Except with maybe a fatter and longer hose.

[BC Pneumatics]

Guys, a Vortex/Cloud BBMG works off the principal of pulling a venturi. this happens becasue the air going in is slightly less than can leave via the outlet. Of you are forceing air in with a leaf blower, this wont happen. I have a 2 barreled BBMG, that uses a 1/4" ball valve as the air inlet. if I open it all the way up, proformance sucks, but when I hit the sweet spot at about 3/5th open, the thing just rips.

[huse_spud]

guys! joel from spudtech made a ping pong cloud using a shopvac. its on his site.

you could try that.

[noname]

Yeah and ping pong balls are sooooo destructive.

[huse_spud]

Yeah and ping pong balls are sooooo destructive.

i never thought about that LOL.

oh well you're on ur own then

you could try shooting them at ninjas then.

cya noname i got to go poop.