Dimpled Paintballs
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Forum Name: Paintball Ideas / News From Tippmann
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Topic: Dimpled Paintballs
Posted By: hashi2008
Subject: Dimpled Paintballs
Date Posted: 17 October 2004 at 4:08pm
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Why don't paintballs have dimples like golf balls? "The dimples change the levels of pressure by bringing the main air stream very close to the surface of the golf ball. The dimples, or "turbulators," increase the turbulence in the layer of air located next to the surface of the ball. This high-speed air stream near the ball increases the amount of pressure behind the ball-thereby forcing the ball to travel farther." That was a quote about golf balls. Dimpled golf balls travel over 4 times farther than smooth ones. Doesn't this make sense? ------------- Founder of the "Forumers Against the Ugly Woman Sigs" also known as FAUWS. |
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Posted By: TheNelson001
Date Posted: 17 October 2004 at 4:15pm
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it's a good idea, but I could imagine that they would be hard to make... ------------- 
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Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 17 October 2004 at 5:27pm
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Search it. it wont work.
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Posted By: g0dhead
Date Posted: 17 October 2004 at 5:29pm
Let your paintballs set long enough... They'll start to dimple by themselves...  and... turn kinda' ovalish; then not shoot.. straight... But yeah...------------- 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 17 October 2004 at 5:46pm
| From Automags,org: "The idea of dimpled paintballs comes up every couple months and we always have to tell them sorry we tried that and it didn't work. " |
Posted By: Bounty
Date Posted: 17 October 2004 at 7:56pm
| The dimples would create little areas for the co2 or nitro to get around putting less power behind it. |
Posted By: hashi2008
Date Posted: 17 October 2004 at 9:10pm
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Dang, I foregot about that. But what if they were used in a cannon that used a bucket to hold all of the paintballs in. I guess they would work with that. ------------- Founder of the "Forumers Against the Ugly Woman Sigs" also known as FAUWS. |
Posted By: paintballpunkGD
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 4:33pm
| the theory si good, but if it shoots farther it has more speed right? well not necisarily but rpesuming it does, most feilds have a max of 300fps, so you would have 2 ur pressure, n then u would loose the distance cuz u have less force. if u relly wanna try it, do wut g0dhead said...let the mset the ywill dimple themselve n u will see that dimples = paintballers worst nightmare (for me atleast) |
Posted By: paintball_playa
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 4:47pm
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Too bad it won't work, I'd go out and buy a pack of 2000 and light every1 up. wouldn't that be fun! ------------- 2004 ICD BKO Dye Sticky 3s CP Regulator Vapor Valve Custom Cut Bolt Removed Trigger Spring CP Gauge 2k4 Chaos Board |
Posted By: TippmannA5User
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 9:03pm
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won't work, been tried, search. ------------- Just shoot yourself and save me the trouble. click the pic! http://mypaintballpics.mypicgallery.com/mpg/Route.asp"> 
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Posted By: 98 nitro
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 10:25pm
| if it does wat u say and makes it go further it could also make it go faster at close range shots and really ingure or hurt a lil kid |
Posted By: Tippmanns_Only
Date Posted: 04 June 2005 at 9:04pm
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They would be pretty damn expensive ------------- Tippmann Pro Carbine -Double Trigger -16" J.J. Barrel Upgrades soon to come -Expansion Chamber -Stock -New hopper, maybe revve |
Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 04 June 2005 at 9:11pm
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8 month bump, nice going
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Posted By: hashi2008
Date Posted: 04 June 2005 at 10:52pm
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Oh god. This was deffenately a low point in my ideas. Why the heck did he do this? ------------- Founder of the "Forumers Against the Ugly Woman Sigs" also known as FAUWS. |
Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 04 June 2005 at 11:18pm
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Nice try.. ------------- Pumpker'd; (V.) When a pump player runs up and shoots you at point blank range because you thought 20bps made you good. |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 05 June 2005 at 12:30am
| Marbalizer tried it but i think they said the dimples wouldn't stay indented into the paintball. Something like that was the problem. |
Posted By: Smitty
Date Posted: 05 June 2005 at 12:36am
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Darur wrote:Posted By: Paintball Grunt
Date Posted: 05 June 2005 at 6:54pm
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EXPENSIVE ------------- I'm not going to call the hospital, because you won't learn anything if I do. 
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Posted By: Unicorn
Date Posted: 08 June 2005 at 1:12pm
| The only way to get a ball with dimples would be to make them harder, hard enough that they'd be dangerous to get hit with. |
Posted By: Sopha530
Date Posted: 16 June 2005 at 7:21pm
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they work fine how they are now ------------- ***SoPhIe ChRiStInE*** |
Posted By: Strife_17
Date Posted: 16 June 2005 at 9:03pm
| i could have sworn i saw them. soem guy i played woodsball hadf em and let us use em. i think but i could swrar they were dimpled. maye im jsut imagineing things |
Posted By: benttwig33
Date Posted: 18 June 2005 at 10:35pm
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because paintballs are made from a gel....when the gel begins to harden, how would you get it to harden in a dimple form such as a golf ball?
If you can manage to do that efficently then it would be awsome ------------- Sig is WAY too big. |
Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 20 June 2005 at 1:18pm
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Yea, awesome... until the gas past your ball and all that junk, and that will cause some serious accuracy and distance problems as well... ------------- 
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 20 June 2005 at 3:24pm
This thread needs to die.
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Posted By: hashi2008
Date Posted: 20 June 2005 at 5:03pm
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Please let it die. It was not a well thought through idea. IT WILL NOT WORK IN A PAINTBALL GUN. Stop posting! Please. ------------- Founder of the "Forumers Against the Ugly Woman Sigs" also known as FAUWS. |
Posted By: tippyjp98c
Date Posted: 21 June 2005 at 8:06pm
| they are fine how they r now. you pay alot of money for paintballs already. that would jack up the price even more. |
Posted By: meteora
Date Posted: 24 June 2005 at 2:29pm
if you get some sort of metal pan(like pizza or something) or even a towel, and lay your paintballs out, the dimples disappear. i know this is kinda the opposite of the thread, but if you ever need to get dimples out, thats the way to do it ------------- http://imageshack.us"> 
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Posted By: DoctaMarcos
Date Posted: 24 June 2005 at 7:23pm
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Posted By: hashi2008
Date Posted: 26 June 2005 at 10:04pm
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Please, for the love of GOD let this thread DIE NOW! If people would read, this thread was over like 2 months ago. I personaly lose all respect for any idiot that posts in this tread as of now. ------------- Founder of the "Forumers Against the Ugly Woman Sigs" also known as FAUWS. |