Worth it?

[schismatized]

Would it be worth it to build a large coaxial, say, 10'x2" barrel and 9'x4" chamber? I was looking at fittings and it wouldnt be too expensive, but then i got to thinking, im gonna need a LONG ramrod. is there anyway i could make some sort of quick disconnect behind the piston to load spuds at the valve end? threads take an awful long time to screw on and off after each firing.

[noname]

You could hook up the plug to a drill, so you could spin it out, or you could use some HUGE cam locks.

[Velocity]

Well, heres what you do. Buy a regular 2" SCH 40 tee, and buy a 4" tee with the perpendicular leg only 2". Instead of putting a female adapter and then a plug at the end of the coaxial, put the 4" x 2" x 4" tee, then the female adapter, and then the plug. On the barrel portion, put the 2" tee at the end of the barrel. Sand out the stops in 2" leg of the 4" tee, and then pass a piece of 2" pipe through the hole. It'll be tricky, but solvent weld the 2" pipe in both the 2" tee socket and the 4" perpendicular leg (which is 2" as well) socket. Slap a female adapter and plug onto the end of this 2" pipe, and there you go.

[schismatized]

good idea rmich, but idk if i would be able to shoot spuds with it lol. wonder how much large cam locks cost...

[Gepard]

They're not that hard to make if you have the right tools.....

Michael

[schismatized]

yeah i dont have a lathe or mill... but i got most of the basic woodworking tools.. numerous hand drills, drill press, different types of saws, etc.. What did you have in mind gepard lol?

[Gepard]

Hang on, we're talking about barrels where you undone the clips and put another on without screwing it right?

Michael

[VH_man]

yes, we are.........

[Gepard]

Get a male to slip and a female to slip and take off the threads.

Bend some sheet metal into like a U shape and then pivot one end.

Bend some steel rod into a U shape but so it goes in at the top: (ignore the as I used them as spaces)

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And make it so the gap goes through the middle of the U sheet steel.

Attach the pivot at the end to the female-slip piece and then on the male make it so there are two bits pointing out that you can hook the loops around.

One one each side and you should be good to go without needing a lathe or mill

That make sense?

Michael

[schismatized]

umm i see kind of. haha seems like a lot of work. i don't have access to a lot of metal supplies during the summer tho.. I was thinking about hooking up a drill to the male end.. or maybe fashioning a large wrench that fits around it. hmm any ideas on how i would go by fashioning a drill to it? I made a rough sketch of the gun, without any mods for quick loading:

[schismatized]

also, how would i go about centering the barrel in a 10' long chamber?

[schismatized]

bump bump bump bump

[Flying_Salt]

Psst we don't like bumping threads here, it isn't runescape

You could make a ghetto breech and use a bendy hose as a ramrod?

[schismatized]

i realized that, idk if anybody likes bumps. im just bored. sorry mom.

[singularity]

about the barrel centering, i ran into the same problem with a big 3" camber 1" barrel 5 foot long coaxil i built a while back i used this thing...

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basically its a 1 inch coupler i bored out so it could slide it over the barrel, then i ca glues some flattened PVC sheets to it, and cut them down to size using a dremel. the PVC was flattened by cutting a piece of pipe in half, then sticking it in boiling water, then quickly pulling it from the water and flattening it between two pieces of wood. it takes a few trys to get right but its not that much work once you have the water boiling