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Topic: glow paint for night
Posted By: PitchBlacK
Subject: glow paint for night
Date Posted: 02 August 2004 at 8:21pm

if they made .68 caliber balls with a filler consisting of the chemicals in glo sticks, and in the middle of the ball was a smaller ball with a very weak shell filled with the catalyst..

technically when the ball explodes it should glow. this would take new meaning to playing night paintball.



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Posted By: jigglydude
Date Posted: 02 August 2004 at 8:30pm
already been done


Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 02 August 2004 at 8:57pm
^^^yep, that idea is taken and on the market. Nice thinking though.

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Posted By: Fast Splat
Date Posted: 03 August 2004 at 9:53am

They have them already. http://www.888paintball.com - www.888paintball.com

Good idea though.



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Posted By: Helmut12289
Date Posted: 03 August 2004 at 10:00am
do the balls themselves glow, or just the paint inside.  If the balls glow, it would be like tracers.

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Posted By: 5ptcontingency
Date Posted: 03 August 2004 at 10:11am
He wasn't talking about typical glow in the dark paintballs.

Originally posted by PitchBlacK PitchBlacK wrote:

.68 caliber balls with a filler consisting of the chemicals in glo sticks



The idea is that they wouldn't be tracers. They would (or should) only glow after impact. They wouldn't need a UV light or anything to function.

I can only imagine how expensive those kind of paintballs would be, but regardless of price, I know I would never use any kind of glowing paintball.




Posted By: Homer J
Date Posted: 03 August 2004 at 2:38pm
On top of that I'm not so sure the chemicals inside glowsticks are exactly gentle on the skin...


Posted By: holysmartone
Date Posted: 03 August 2004 at 4:15pm

Gentle on the skin isnt a big deal. It might just be mildly irratating(sp?). But if you get shot in the mask... Glow stick fluid makes you REALLY sick, trust me. Ive eaten one before. Get shot in the mask and swallow even a drop, youll be throwing up for the rest of the day. Not fun. Maybe find a way to make it non-toxic or non-irratating.



Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 04 August 2004 at 1:45am
yeah that glowstick stuff stains.

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Posted By: warmonger83
Date Posted: 04 August 2004 at 12:17pm
Originally posted by holysmartone holysmartone wrote:

Gentle on the skin isnt a big deal. It might just be mildly irratating(sp?).



hah, more like dumping sulfuric acid on your skin
there are 2 chemicals in a glowstick a powerful alkali solution (that would be basic to those of you still in junior high or low level HS science classes) and a glucose solution.

and alkalis react to organics much like acids react to metals...

found it out the hard way... ouch

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Posted By: evil_fingers
Date Posted: 04 August 2004 at 12:54pm
That explains why regular night time paintballin isnt too popular, except fer them big time 24hr+ battle scenarios.

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Posted By: holysmartone
Date Posted: 04 August 2004 at 8:19pm

Hmmm, I didnt know it was that bad on the skin. The one time I had it on my skin I was more worried about what was in my mouth/throat/stomach than on my skin. Im warning everyone here ahead of time, never chew on a glow-stick, if it breaks open in your mouth, youll regret it.



Posted By: evil_fingers
Date Posted: 04 August 2004 at 9:08pm
LOl....chewin on a glow sticks, sounds like you been hangin out at them raver parties and yer lucky yer still alive, the original glow sticks had Mercury in it.

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Posted By: PlentifulBalls
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 12:25am
Originally posted by The Guy The Guy wrote:

yeah that glowstick stuff stains.


And tastes terrible.


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Posted By: PitchBlacK
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:24am
its not bad on the skin really, at parties my friends and i would wear the goo and it'd glow on our skin. mad fun.. no burn. just light redness some spots.

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Posted By: 98c Dude13
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 4:43pm
That would be cool.If they made a chemical the same in glowsticks but safe.Then you would see a glowing ball going 300 fps a you then splat! Your mask now glows in the dark!

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Posted By: pb_sk8_kid
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 10:38pm

Originally posted by Helmut12289 Helmut12289 wrote:

do the balls themselves glow, or just the paint inside.  If the balls glow, it would be like tracers.

The paint is glow in the dark ,and you need a special UV light hopper or else the paint won't glow



Posted By: holysmartone
Date Posted: 06 August 2004 at 2:03am
Not raver parties... just one which involved some, beverages not suitible for those under 21. Such as myself...


Posted By: SniperBoy01
Date Posted: 07 August 2004 at 2:55pm

even thou this is alittle off topic go out at night and get some fireflys and rube the glow part on your clothes and play in the dark or put it on your paintballs try it it is cool.

 



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Posted By: U_goat_bastard
Date Posted: 30 August 2004 at 8:56pm

Originally posted by Helmut12289 Helmut12289 wrote:

do the balls themselves glow, or just the paint inside.  If the balls glow, it would be like tracers.

Tracers?.... that would be awesom!



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Posted By: evil_fingers
Date Posted: 30 August 2004 at 10:48pm

Originally posted by holysmartone holysmartone wrote:

Not raver parties... just one which involved some, beverages not suitible for those under 21. Such as myself...

Most raver parties are under 21 and its all good wit the beverages, I started when I was 15....man, them 40 ouncers were awesome back in da dayz......BURP!!! whoops bless me, Im havin a flashback.



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Posted By: Liquid
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 6:20pm

Glow in the Dark Paintball isn't rare.  The paintball shells aren't glow in the dark, they are clear.  The liquid inside is what is reactant to light.  And you don't necessarily need a UV hopper for the paint to glow.  You can try the more tricky, and more dangerous way, sticking a flashlight into your hopper everytime you stop, and then turning it on.  You have the chance for some of the beams of light to come out of the hopper, and also, you're only getting the top layers of paintballs to glow.  You don't fire the top layers usually.

Also, UV Hoppers use basic little LED Blacklights all throughout the hopper, and one blast from a ray of UV light will supercharge those paintballs.  The UV lights usually are placed everywhere in the hopper, and close to the feed neck as possible.  So when you shoot those balls...they are glowing.

The idea is good.  If you've ever played UV Paintball.  Then you know that once you fire that gun, at night people can usually easily trace the fire back to your gun.  So if you had the internal paint, that only glows when it breaks, that would be great.

When we play Paintball at Night...there are a couple of street lights near our field, so you can somewhat see better than it being pitch black (no pun intended).  We play Capture the Flag.  Two bases, two flags.  The flags are those Glow Rings ... http://www.theglowcompany.co.uk/ - http://www.theglowcompany.co.uk/   Once you grab the enemy flag, you have to either attach it to your gun, or mask.  You can't put it in your pocket or conseal it.  Because it would be extremely way too easy for you to get away if you could hide the flag.  So fun though.  Kryptonite Paintballs!



Posted By: sneakysniper7
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 9:19pm

Tracer paintballs sounds cool

 



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