straight flatline barrel WORKS!!!

oh, you guys . i feel loved!

except for this guy:

Syrus.S.A wrote: Hello, all i want to add to your conversation on the "worst idea of the year" is that has anyone ever wondered way you pay so much for a Flatline? Maybe cause it took a genius years of research and money to come up with a great product. He must have not thought of STICKY TAPE and i $ 2 dollar barrel!!! But hey whatever rocks your boat! Next we can try using a balloon as a HPA tank, it just might work, what do ya think guys!!

hello, all i want to add is "biggest n00b of the year." Has anyone wondered why your mom hasnt killed you yet? Maybe you need to really try to stop making people hate you. you must not have thought. at all. but hey, whatever rocks your boat! Next, we can try to pee on an electric fence! it just might work, what do ya think guys!!

 

god that was fun!

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Hello again, it's not the idea that matters, it is how feesable the idea is. Asking an opponent to hold on while i change "tapes" is not on! But i sincerely apologise DeTrevni and next time i promise to be more constructive guys. Your "idea" is okay and i hope you come right with it, personally i'll stick with my flatline.

dang. its been done before? oh well, i dont think its been done here and as long it helps some people, than im happy.

Syrus: apology accepted. just please: dont be a jerk. you make people want to be jerks back. not cool. oh, i shot about a hopper full before my air ran out and the tape stuck fine. just get good tape.

Heyy i did this the day after i got my flatline for my 98c last year and i still have the dye excel barrel i tried this on haha. Ok what u do is put 3 inches of TEFLON TAPE at the beginning of any barrel MAKE SURE AFTER U SCREW IN UR BARREL THE TAPE IS STILL ON TOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Put some kind of glur(rubber cement or super glue...   if you feel lucky) on the back of the tape. BECAUSE the ball has another 10-13 inches of barrel to go it will stable and shoot in a 1.8 foot RADIUS gathering at 75 feet(roughly) and will have a flatter trajectory and shoot 40-80 feet further then a regular barrel. Also since TEFLON TAPE is soft(or i think thats the reason...) I didnt brake any balls. Have a nice experiment MY BARREL WAS 16 INCHES LONG!

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How hard wuld it be to make a barrel like this in a metal shop, just wondering because that is a way to keep from putting on tape three times a day. I'm going to try out the tape thing w/ my stock barrel and see what happens. I'd rather take five minutes to put on some tape than pay $100 bucks. Why would you squeegie it so much anyway, the idea is to use a crappy barrel you don't care about anyway, just put the tape on once, and if a ball busts, squeegie it out and keep shooting without tape the rest of the day.

sneaky_sniper wrote: ummm i sqeegie that much cuz..... i dunno i just like to squeegy i guess

You should probably talk to someone about that.

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

quite so.

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. 

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...

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.