straight flatline barrel WORKS!!!

No. It doesn't work. The paint to bore match would have to be perfect in order for it to work, meaning that you would only be able to shoot one type of paint through it.

Aahhhh, I think I see what you're trying to achieve.

 

Essentially you're trying to make the paintball into a "wing"?

Resistance on top = top spins slower, bottom faster = less resistance on bottom, more on top = higher pressure on bottom, lower pressure on top = the way a wing works.

Very novel idea man, turn the thing into an airplane. Great thought!

kuhndog599 wrote: Devil2 wrote: kuhndog599 wrote: then you should buy a new camera. Some people just don't have that kind of money to throw around. Why don't you buy a camera and send it to him since you suggested it? you know i would but i have better things to save up for. like flight school.

And what makes you think that he doesn't have better things to save up for?

luckily i got a job thats a couple of blocks from my house. i'm 15 and i could drive there but i dont i walk. lol. one time when i was cming back from work i have to pass by this weird church. there were like 5 old people outside and they kept telling me to come inside and visit. i just said i was already in 15 churches. not really. thats kinda impossible. they didnt believe me so i just ran off.

lets see hes 16. what do you have to pay for in your life. if you dont have a job get one.

kuhndog599 wrote: then you should buy a new camera.

Some people just don't have that kind of money to throw around. Why don't you buy a camera and send it to him since you suggested it?

I'm waiting for anyone to post a vid of this working.  I got one issue with why I think it wouldn't work:
  The diameters of paintball barrels vary within 1/100th of an inch.  My Rufus Dawg sizer covers paint between .684 and .694, and I've never found a paint outside that range.  Further, even my old barrels (made when Big Bore was a popular marketing term for compatbility with swollen paintballs common in california) don't fall outside this range.  That being said, you need to use a tape (adhesive backed) that has a thickness measured in thousandths of an inch.  Teflon tape (I can't find my roll) may be thin enough but, then you gotta use an adhesive which would add to the overall thickness.  Let's not even get into the string/fiber-reinforced tapes.
  With all that being said, you're more likely to overcompress the ball and cause a break that way. I mean just try shooting .692-.694 paint in a .684 barrel and see what happens.

kuhndog599 wrote: ninety8freak wrote: kuhndog599 wrote: DeTrevni wrote: well see! i got someone to get at least one successfull test run. everyone else get out there and test this out! post vids and pics preferably. why dont you get out there and test it out and post pics and vids.  He said he lives in a condensed area and is waiting to go to his relatives house to shoot and test it out.  still shouldnt take that long. unless hes five years old.

i could take pics, but i the only video camera i have is literally from the mid 80's. also, i got air in hopes of going to my relatives house this thanksgiving, but that backfired. they are coming over here. so im sadly still waiting. i would have gone last weekend, but i went on a Scout mountain bike campout. if it aint one thing its another. i promise ill get the specs when i can. oh, btw, im 16...

kuhndog599 wrote: DeTrevni wrote: well see! i got someone to get at least one successfull test run. everyone else get out there and test this out! post vids and pics preferably. why dont you get out there and test it out and post pics and vids.

 He said he lives in a condensed area and is waiting to go to his relatives house to shoot and test it out. 

Styro Folme wrote: i've thought about this idea before....  it would be interesting to see....

quite so.