Converting a paintball gun...

[ShadowKat]

I have an old Spyder painball gun laying around and I was wondering if there's a way of using the guts of that to create a pneumatic cannon...

Any thoughts?

[Atlantis]

You're probably better off keeping it as a paintball gun. You might be able to change the barrel but that's all I can think of.

[Brian the brain]

I think you could turn it into a QEV (to pilot a piston )with a ready made pistol grip...Post a picture of the gun and of it's insides I might figure it out

[nicholai]

i too was thinking about this, i see a ton of t-shirt cannons for sale that look exactly like a paintball gun handle with a built in regulator and a clear pvc barrel.

im gonna take my junk gun apart and see how it releases the gas, could be easily modified with the right grip/receiver setup

[sergeantspud2]

what kind of gun is it spudshot?

[the_original_damo]

if it still works just get potatoes and carve them till they are round and fit in a paintball gun and shoot them

[theregoesthewindow]

nicholia! No need to take it apart (I think)! Unless your gun is different from the model then the insides should look something like this http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/ ... 3d-gun.htm.
I don't think it has very good flow but, most likely it will work if you hook up the pilot space to where the CO2 is supposed to go

[nicholai]

yeah i talked with some moron who bought a "t-shit gun" from funguncompany.com... i think it cost him like $1500, hes a concert promoter.

the thing wouldnt make it to the top row of an arena with a single t-shirt

[pyromanic13]

could you drill a hole ing the place you screw in the co2 then attach a line fron there to a under barrle grenard launcher , would this work?

[pyromanic13]

bump^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

[Hatheg-Kla]

try replaceing the valve spring with a lighter one and the hammer spring (the main spring) with a really strong one and you should be able to get more power out of it. also drill out your bolt if you have a ventury(sp) stile bolt for higher air flow. and if you want you can buy a high flow valve. then crank down on the velocity adjuster and run it at full co2 psi (no reg) you could probably do some damage with that if you did it right.

[nicholai]

im pretty sure thats what the funguncompany.com guys do.

[frankrede]

modify your hopper receiver to take a larger object and turn up your guns velocity all the way up/

[Scope]

That diagram isnt a spyder. All spyders opperate off the stacked tube design.
http://www.zdspb.com/media/tech/animations/spyder.gif