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Topic: Working C-3 Diagram
Posted By: OKC-3
Subject: Working C-3 Diagram
Date Posted: 02 December 2005 at 9:55pm

 

 

Step 1: What happens with the back pump stroke.
When you pump the handle back, you do a few things. Of course you're pulling the bolt back to chamber a ball! That's obvious. But there are 2 other things.
One being the ventilation of excess gas. The propane/air mixture that doesn't get used needs to be vented out.
The other being the brass piston in the front. It is a "switch" just as the autococker 4-way is a "switch." When the handle pushes in this tiny brass piston allows a tiny amount of propane to flow through a low-pressure hose. This hose is routed to *somewhere* in the back of the gun (see, that's why the above animation isn't 100%).

Step 2: Next what happens with the forward pump stroke.
From here you will, again get obvious out of the way, finish chambering a single paintball. Now on to more unobvious detail.
On the giant piston connected to the pump rod there are 2 U-rings. "Flappers." These are sucking in the air on the return pump motion, for the mixture of propane and air. Proper mixture, iirc, of 1:5 ratio.

Step 3: Finally, when you pull the trigger...
As soon as you pull the trigger, underneath the combustion chamber is essentially a spark plug. A tiny spark will ignite the propane. Upon ignition the pressure will build drastically (honestly a tiny explosion) and start to push back the REAR piston. Once back far enough the expanding gases will vent out, through the bolt, and propell the paintball out the barrel. This is why the spring tension regulates velocity, the stiffer the spring, the smaller the amount of gas that is allowed to exhaust. And of course not all the gas exhausts, which is why the step 1 process is required.

This also explains why the barrel needed to be a proprietary design, it HAD to be made of the composite material.

I'll admit that I was one of the many who didn't quite understand the exact working function of the C3. After talking to a couple people and going over the schematics some more it began to take shape. I had originally envisioned the large dual-ringed piston to be shoved forward to act as a 'mini-compressor' of sorts. But as soon as I found out that the pump handle is basically connected to the piston it made a whole other picture for me.

                  Found a pbnation.com



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Posted By: sneaky_sniper
Date Posted: 02 December 2005 at 10:56pm
this has already been posted, and its not an idea

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Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 02 December 2005 at 11:04pm
yeah, this belongs in new players or the tech section.  interesting though.

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Posted By: sneaky_sniper
Date Posted: 03 December 2005 at 12:55am
and from that diagram, it may be the wrong thread but, ya acording to that diagram up there, the C-3 is a fire arm

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Posted By: N0M1S
Date Posted: 03 December 2005 at 5:29am
Originally posted by sneaky_sniper sneaky_sniper wrote:

and from that diagram, it may be the wrong thread but, ya acording to that diagram up there, the C-3 is a fire arm


diagram makes the c-3 looks like a fire arm, yet it makes me more interested in investing my money into one


Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 03 December 2005 at 7:04am
The C-3 is a Firearm. It does ingite the propane gas to shoot.
BTW the animation was made by meph, one of the plats here.


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Posted By: spudcrazy
Date Posted: 03 December 2005 at 10:46am
Awesome graphics and explanation...Thanks for posting, regardless of where it should be....

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Posted By: djrock
Date Posted: 03 December 2005 at 11:56am
Thanks dude, never actually saw a working diagram of any marker.

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It's been changed jackass.


Posted By: Zesty
Date Posted: 03 December 2005 at 12:59pm
So it's electirc stock? That's kinda cool but also kinda sucks....I don't need an electro trigger on my pump, I'd prefer it to be fully mech.

But I'm sure a lot of people like that stuff.


Posted By: OKC-3
Date Posted: 03 December 2005 at 1:15pm

Yeah i didnt know where to post it. I thought alot of people would see it here



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Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 03 December 2005 at 1:34pm
yeah this was posted by Meph himself on here

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Posted By: OKC-3
Date Posted: 03 December 2005 at 1:47pm
oops srry

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C-3


Posted By: SAWATZKY
Date Posted: 25 December 2005 at 4:29pm
hey thats cool, im plannin on buyinn a c3 and that sure explaines how it works, good job


Posted By: Smitty
Date Posted: 25 December 2005 at 5:56pm
It's a good diagram and there is a lot of good explanations there, but most have already seen it.  You can never see it too many times though.


Posted By: sneaky_sniper
Date Posted: 25 December 2005 at 6:06pm

Originally posted by Zesty Zesty wrote:

So it's electirc stock? That's kinda cool but also kinda sucks....I don't need an electro trigger on my pump, I'd prefer it to be fully mech.

But I'm sure a lot of people like that stuff.

well then i guess you could tie a piece of flint to it...



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Posted By: Zesty
Date Posted: 26 December 2005 at 12:30pm
^great idea

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Posted By: ^Pirate^
Date Posted: 26 December 2005 at 12:44pm
Originally posted by sneaky_sniper sneaky_sniper wrote:

Originally posted by Zesty Zesty wrote:

So it's electirc stock? That's kinda cool but also kinda sucks....I don't need an electro trigger on my pump, I'd prefer it to be fully mech.

But I'm sure a lot of people like that stuff.

well then i guess you could tie a piece of flint to it...



I see you as blowing something up sometime in your life.....



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Posted By: Zesty
Date Posted: 26 December 2005 at 12:53pm
Nah, I actually see what he's saying now, there needs to be a spark, which is why it's electro, and why he sarcastically sugested using flint. Nice.



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Posted By: sneaky_sniper
Date Posted: 26 December 2005 at 3:13pm
Originally posted by ^Pirate^ ^Pirate^ wrote:

Originally posted by sneaky_sniper sneaky_sniper wrote:

Originally posted by Zesty Zesty wrote:

So it's electirc stock? That's kinda cool but also kinda sucks....I don't need an electro trigger on my pump, I'd prefer it to be fully mech.

But I'm sure a lot of people like that stuff.

well then i guess you could tie a piece of flint to it...



I see you as blowing something up sometime in your life.....

how have you seen my past... warlock!!! ahhh!!!

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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 26 December 2005 at 4:43pm
A flint-lock tippmann. That's awesome. 

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