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mlz3000 wrote:I'm thinking I'll just make do with the current valve until I have done enough research to feel comfortable building my own piston valve.

Have a look at Hubb's 2" piston valve how-to, since you managed to put together the subject of this thread it should be a piece of cake (sorry...) to put a piston valved launcher togther, and you can use the 1" sprinkler as a pilot

Okay, I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking at a diagram of...

That's just the piston, right?

So then this would go inside of a 2" or so tee joint, or am I totally off?



Also: because I haven't mentioned it yet. I named the launcher CAKE because I knew I wanted an acronym name for it, and because I'm such a Portal nut, I couldn't resist calling it "CAKE" for "Compressed Air Kinetic Emancipator"

That is just the piston. I have a how to posted in the How-To Database to make smaller pistons for smaller launchers.
http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/turtori ... 21740.html

mlz3000 wrote:because I'm such a Portal nut, I couldn't resist calling it "CAKE" for "Compressed Air Kinetic Emancipator"

I had to stop myself from saying your launcher was a LIE!



Speaking of which, you'll probably appreciate this work in progress

Alrighty!

Thanks you guys! This thread quickly jumped from noting that my chamber was not pressure rated to teaching me about C:B ratios and valves. I really appreciate it, and feel very welcomed.