Project Custom: Newest Mod

Hey.  For those of you who remember, i've been working on a E-Bolted custom I picked up a month or two ago, and now, i've got pictures of the newest mod i've done, a relocated battery.

Heres a link to the old topic, the images might not work, but i'll get a full shot of the gun in a day or two, its still all in peices right now.

http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/forum_posts.asp?TID=149 481&KW=Tippmann%5FWerks

and heres a picture of the mod itself, sorry about the quality:



As you can see, the battery has been placed inside the grip frame, eliminating the need to A). Have that big bulky battery case on the side of the gun, and B). Avoid running wires into the hammer area, avoiding pinching wires while operating the gun. 

To anyone who hasn't done something like this, it requires MASSIVE amounts of milling, and it is NOT fun.  It took me nearly a week to get it to where I am, and I still have to mill abit more to get the halfs to close all the way.  The board had to move up a bit to fit the battery in, which meant that the holes for the sear had to be milled down, no longer useable.  Definately worth it though.

Let me know what you think, i'll try to get it all together again and get up some new pics.  Thanks.

Oh, and check the old post for the list of mods i've done,  the only new ones that arn't there are:

Milled front grips
Torpedo Reg
Relocated On/Off switch

Thanks

nice u shuld mod the membrane pad on it

Nice job so far. More pics will do it better justice I'm sure.

I would sujest doing the quickstrip mod. where you cut the back half of one of the recievers completly off. This will make changing the battery alot easier.

looks good so far

looks good

What are polished internals?, What do they do?

Ha, well, sorry to bring this topic back from the dead, but, I've started working on it...again.

I've thrown out all the original plans I had for putting a mini-morlock or whathaveyou board in, and went against doing any more milling.  (for the health of my dremel, which still hasn't forgiven me).

With that said..

I picked up a PM6 grip this past saturday from a PM6 user who has switched to the Ultralight frame.  Wasn't really interested in using it anymore, so I figured i'd buy it.  My plan now is, instead of just milling enough room to put a DM/Mini whatever board in the stock tippmann grip frame, why not just remove the frame completely and weild on the PM6 frame instead?

I've seen this done with quite alot of other grips before, so I figured the process couldn't be too hard, plus, the PM line is probably one of the more comfortable grips, at least to me anyway.

So...I've got the PM grip completely stripped, im going to have to saw it directly in half so that I can take it apart with the Tippmann body itself, and other then that...I just have to make some room for a solenoid

Should turn out good, I've already got the 2 way-d ram done, just gotta slap this grip frame on and i'll be all set, pending a LPR kit. (Which I might just make, but im not sure yet)

Feel free to post some coments, as im still taking em. Oh, and search my login name to find my original post, if you wish to see the actual Custom im talking about.  Pics up as soon as I do this, hopefully by Thursday

Sounds like a fair amount of work but it should be tight when you're done. Please post pics when you finish.

For a second I thought, who in god's name bumped a thread from April? However, after reading the thread sounds like you've got a heck of a project on your hands. Good luck making a true cut on the PM6 frame. I think it would be easier/look better if you left it in one piece and just unbolted it from the body when you need to disassemble the marker. Just a thought.