Size of pipe

[goathunter]

Well I'm in the planning stage of building my first vortex(and BBMG for that matter).My question is,what size pipe does everyone use to build there BB chamber?I'm leaning towards 1 1/2" cause i have alot of it laying around the house.What would ya'll recommend?

[Panzerfaust]

This depends on what your shooting, and how large you want your capicity to be. if your using .177 metal bb's id say go with the 1 1/2. But 6mm airsoft's are larger so you would probably want 2" for that.

[frankrede]

1 1/2" 1 1/4" and 1" work great, it depends on how much ammo you wnat to use.
and teh smaller, the more power.

[goathunter]

I'm going to shoot airsoft BB's in the current gun.

[noname]

I usually use 1" SDR 21 or 1 1/4," it fits my usually vortex block size well, holds plenty of ammo, and is compact and powerful. It also doesn't look huge and is capable of looking like cool little SMGs.
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[goathunter]

Thanks guys,I was thinking that the smaller would be better but I noticed alot of people using what looked like 2".Well, look for my new gun in a couple of weeks.I promise it will have some new features never before seen(if they work out )

Goat

[noname]

Is it going to be an inline gun or the T design?

[goathunter]

inline vortex is what I was planning on

[noname]

If you use a "half hole" vortex block (which I heartily advise), go with a size smaller than 2," unless you want the barrel coming out of the very bottom of the gun.

[Mr.Russ]

I used 2" and a half hole block, i jsut made my vortex hole bigger.

[goathunter]

Well,this evening I made a 1 1/8" vortex block inside a 1 1/2" pipe.Lets hope it works.The barrel comes out dead center in my plug and my block sits perfect in the pipe.It just kinda worked out perfect,hows that for luck.