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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 12:09 pm
by jackssmirkingrevenge
A little update, I added a threaded adapter to allow it to be hooked up to my compressor, and a length of aluminium to hallow the breech to be hooked up to an electric drill for testing. I'll give it until tomorrow to cure then you can expect some results
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:39 pm
by dongfang
Hi-Jack,
Sorry, I can´t resist: Put a cam on the rotating pipe and make that push open the air valve. Once working, arrange 8 of the guns in 2 rows, have 2 cams control everything, and there you have the world´s first V8 DOHC BB gun.
Regards
Soren
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:57 pm
by jackssmirkingrevenge
I promised you results, and the results are most disappointing. So much for tight tolerances, it leaks air like crazy, a complete waste of time. Ah well, at least I answered the nagging question in my head of whether it would work or not.
Now, the ball valve idea, hmmm...
Sorry, I can´t resist: Put a cam on the rotating pipe and make that push open the air valve. Once working, arrange 8 of the guns in 2 rows, have 2 cams control everything, and there you have the world´s first V8 DOHC BB gun.
I actually have a couple of cam powered designs
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:23 pm
by dongfang
Hi,
Haha, I hadn´t expected that you already had camshafts in gun designs...
It seems to be the conclusion that with our kitchen-table construction techniques, one can only make good valves iff the moving part of the valve moves perpendicular to the sealing plane...
Regards
Soren
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:30 pm
by Redcoat
Jack, you should try and build one of your prototypes like this into a rifle-ishy kinda thing. It would look really good. Depending on how much damage you get from this.
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:58 pm
by jackssmirkingrevenge
The thing is I *really* would like to keep it air-only, without the need for an external motor to power it, which Is why I was focusing on the blow back/forward ideas.
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:27 pm
by Skywalker
Any Update? Has he completed this and posted in the "finished cannons" section?
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:32 pm
by clide
A few posts up he said it was a complete waste of time because of air leaks and weak performance. I'm guessing he abandoned it.
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:45 pm
by jackssmirkingrevenge
true dat.
(msg too short)
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:45 pm
by Skywalker
Oops, I missed that.
Thanks.
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 9:13 pm
by iknowmy3tables
wait so you still really want an air only system well your looking for an air motor, if you don't feel like buying one you may be able to extract one from a self propelled vacuum cleaner many Hoover models experiment with air motors at least my dad says so