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Posted: **Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:09 pm**

a 2" tee being used as a regular vortex block

what do you mean "used as", do you mean "used with"

normally I wouldn't worry about bb capacity in a hopper fed vortex it should be like over 400 bbs either way so spilling out entire hopper's full would be out of my budget,
whatever man we got the sizes but what is the shape is it dwv like B, and C or is it sch40 like A

Posted: **Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:11 pm**

JSR wrote:This is how long 2 litres of air lasts me

Wow, a litre per second, nearly as fast as i drink the amber fluid

Posted: **Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:13 pm**

There'll be a mounted bike pump though, so I can repressurise the chamber, i don't mind if I have to pump a few times, shoot for a few seconds, pump a few more times etc.

oh and by the way the proxy im using won't let me watch youtube so i couldn't see that.

edit: I don't know exactly what sort of tee I'll be using as I haven't got it yet but I'll put my money on A

Posted: **Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:17 pm**

revans wrote:oh and by the way the proxy im using won't let me watch youtube so i couldn't see that.

When I was in school we didn't even have PCs handy, let alone internet access

so count your blessings

The video basically shows the 2 litre air chamber in my project being emptied, it lasts less than 4 seconds.

Posted: **Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:22 pm**

jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:When I was in school we didn't even have PCs handy, let alone internet access so count your blessings

Yeah, when i was at school we had to use a marble plate and chalk instead of a notebook and pen, (well think Commodore 64).
I wonder how these youngsters would have gone typing in all those darned DOS commands... When i left school I think Windows was just rearing it's ugly bloody head- SCREW YOU GATESY!!

Posted: **Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:28 pm**

ahh gotta love having to use dos commands. instead of using a search you would have to use the tree command to find your file directories, to send messages you had to use netsend... those were the days...

I'm a huge computer geek at proud of it! (I'm a professional Web Designer)

I actually have an idea for incorporating spud guns and computers here soon..

Posted: **Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:30 pm**

yeah agreed, i don't think i'll be running at 110 psi unless i hook it up to an air compressor, hopefully though if mine is anything like http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/highly- ... 13193.html
I'll be able to pump a few times and shoot it at a non-lethal pace so it can be safe for firefights. If i want to go hardout then I can hook it up to an air compressor or save up for co2 + regulator or pump like crazy for ages (the pump im thinking about getting can go up to 120psi)

Posted: **Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:32 pm**

Novacastrian wrote:(well think Commodore 64).

Lol that was my first PC, imagine trying to explain to kids that PCs used to run on cassettes! Especially that now even music CDs are becoming redundant, let alone cassettes *sigh*

What's astounding about the pace of technology is that I can talk like a 75 year old when in fact I'm just one third of that age

Posted: **Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:37 pm**

PCs used to run on cassettes? jokes. but really; i didn't know that

Posted: **Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:43 pm**

Yes they did.

anyway, back on topic, how about somrthing like this - well, maybe configured differently, just wanted to give you an idea - basically you have a small BB chamber, but a larger hopper over it accesible by a ball valve. This way you keep your small firing chamber for low presusre loss and good power, but at the same time you can easilly refill it.

Posted: **Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:50 pm**

remember though that the ball valve would have to be larger so you dont have to agitate the bb's so much so they can fall through.

Posted: **Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:51 pm**

Good idea maybe I'll fit that in somehow. I think the fitting the vortex will fit in will be 1.5" though. 1" just seems too small and I don't trust making a vortex that small. Hopefully this is gonna turn out good.

Question: does anyone know what sizes of pressure hose you can get? Im gonning to try run it through my 3/4" barrel and fittings to conceal it so i guess it'll need to be pretty small

Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:52 am**

PCs used to run on cassettes

Before that it was punch cards....

Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:05 am**

Jared Haehnel wrote:Before that it was punch cards....

happy days...

Posted: **Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:11 pm**

Novacastrian wrote: When i left school I think Windows was just rearing it's ugly bloody head- SCREW YOU GATESY!!

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