C19O's Coaxial Marble Gun

Cannons powered by pneumatic pressure (compressed gas) using a valve or other release.

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c19o
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Here is my coaxial marble gun. I used 1/2" copper for the barrel and 2" sch40 for the chamber. I might replace the ball valve with a sprinkler valve soon though, this ball valve was all i had at the time.
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Also here's the some pics of the piston, the bumper, and inside the gun.

Front of the piston
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Back of the Piston - I had to use the piece of pipe so the piston would bump into the bumper instead of the male adapter
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Inside the gun
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Bumper - Its not very elegant, but it works!
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Damage Pics

Marble gun damage compared to pumpmaster 760 bbgun at 10 pumps
and cloud .177 cal bbmg
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back of aluminum plate where marble went through
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Last edited by c19o on Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:00 am, edited 4 times in total.
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Nice, how did you connect the copper to the PVC?
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c19o
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I used a 1/2" to 3/4" reducer then hooked that to a 3/4 male adapter, that to a 3/4" to 1" reducer, then the 1" reducer to a 1 and 1/2" reducer, and that to a coupling. I made a mistake in my first post, my chamber is 1 and 1/2" not 2".
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Thanks, i'm thinking of doing something similar to this.
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Nice. Any details on the valve? Piston, diaphragm?
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i used a coupler for the body of the piston and a disk of 3/16" hard neoprene
off of mcmaster for the sealing end. used a sander the grind the coupler down. I will post a pic of the piston and inside the gun in a few minutes. It's probably be a 1/4" coupler for the piston , i don't know cause i ground away the writing on it.
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i just added pics of the piston, bumper, and inside the gun to my first post.
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i have been wanting to make a piston operated gun for a while but i dont know how to get there air out to have the piston come back and by the way really nice gun
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dude u just use a ball valve, sprinkler valve, blowgun, just any kind of valve to get the air behind the piston out.
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good gun but my only suggestion is stick with one or the other copper or pvc
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ballad of NJ wrote:good gun but my only suggestion is stick with one or the other copper or pvc
now, why would you say something idiotic like that?
Current project: Afghanistan deployment
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nice coaxil design. ive been wanting one. now i might just make one.
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Great Gun
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