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I'm sorry if this has already been asked.

I want to make a simple, yet efficient (little or no leak) bolt for my .75" mini. I was thinking about breech loading like on some of my other guns, but I just want to try a bolt of some sort.

Get an inch tee and an inch coupling, then take a a small piece of 1 inch pipe and fashion it so that it can slide through these wo pieces . With a lathe I would guess and then after that works, drill a hole in the bottem of the pipe so that it lines up with the bottem of the tee and another hole so that when the pipe is pulled back a ways it lines up with a hole on the top of the tee. Plug the back of the tee with a PVC bulkhead and have a small spring inside pushing the pipe foward, which is also sealed on the one end nearest the spring. Cut a slit for a bolt handle on the back side of the tee and connect a rod to the pipe inside. The pipe that sticks out of the tee and into the coupling try to cut down a bit so it slides in the couipling smoothly and perhaps use a coupling. On the other side of the coupling connect the barrel. If that makes any sense at all well there you go. I will post a sketch if my scanner ever decides to work.

I sorta kinda get it

I seriously hope your scanner decides to work.

Anyone else

and.... uhhhhhhhhhh Super Newb has a Super newb question......... what are spud bux?

Ok I suck at getting images online so if someone could help me out here I can post the skecth to go with the ramblings above

Just add it as an attachment to one of your posts. Don't use the image thing.

Wait, so you want bolt-action breech loading or a semi-automatic bolt? Breech loading bolts are extremely simple, all you need is a drill, a screw, your barrel, a piece of pipe slightly smaller than your barrel, and some electrical tape.

My sketch is of a simple bolt action breech design, pretty much what you are saying.

You said something about a lathe. I do not have one. I still do not get your sketches

Well then I am not sure how to explain it to you, its a pretty simpl design. Your baically trying to make a paintball bolt for a cannon, one hole allows for air to pass throug and the other opens for ammo to be put in when the bol ti pulled back. The bolt slides in a tee and coupling with the aid of some lube and perhaps some orings. A spring can be place behind the bolt to hold it shut or vice versa and hold it open.

wherre do you attatch the chamber too?

Just find a piece of pipe that fits snugly over your barrel and cut a hole in your barrel. So you slide the piece over the barrel and it covers the hole. If this is for paintball, use a 3/4" CPVC barrel and 1" CPVC can go over the barrel. It won't make a perfect seal but it's really easy and it will definitely do the job.

That pretty much is my idea but a simple version, however the chamber would attach to the coupling.

keep_it_real wrote:Just find a piece of pipe that fits snugly over your barrel and cut a hole in your barrel. So you slide the piece over the barrel and it covers the hole. If this is for paintball, use a 3/4" CPVC barrel and 1" CPVC can go over the barrel. It won't make a perfect seal but it's really easy and it will definitely do the job.

Ok, what if I used a .75" repair coupling? How much power would I lose from that.