Home made parts?
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Topic: Home made parts?
Posted By: gill-it
Subject: Home made parts?
Date Posted: 08 October 2007 at 11:34pm
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So, i was thinking of tryen to save some mony instead of buying parts and using a laith at school to make some of my own parts. i think i could make an aluminum power tube for the a5 and do some tinkering to the hammer to make it lighter, like drilling some metal out of it. i think if i lightend up the hammer it would make the gun go a little faster, thats the only thing i could think of. any sugestions??
------------- One time i hit someone so many times with my a-5, he woke up dead the next day? |
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Posted By: Evil Elvis
Date Posted: 09 October 2007 at 12:01am
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Yes dont void your warantee. Unless you have a CNC Lathe there with a red hot power tube to take all the measurements and load that into the computer. I'd stick to something simpler such as Sight Rails or Drop Forwards maybee a cool MILSIM like shroud. ------------- 
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Posted By: gill-it
Date Posted: 09 October 2007 at 10:04pm
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yeh the mechine isnt that good, but what would happened if i lightened up the hammer? ------------- One time i hit someone so many times with my a-5, he woke up dead the next day? |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 09 October 2007 at 10:22pm
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if you lighten the hammer, it will require a stiffer spring to reach proper muzzle velocity as the reduction in mass = reduction in energy. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: The Ragnarok
Date Posted: 12 October 2007 at 11:01am
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if you lighten the hammer, it will require a stiffer spring to reach proper muzzle velocity as the reduction in mass = reduction in energy.
I Agree with you. ------------- OMG Wobbafet |
Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 14 October 2007 at 11:32am
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make sure its not a hardened hammer... if it is you wont be able to drill it without carbide drills. ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
Posted By: Yomillio
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 7:02pm
Theres nothing to agree with... its an axiomatic statement. ------------- 
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The Ragnarok wrote:Posted By: rvieira
Date Posted: 16 October 2007 at 5:27am
Impressive use of the queen's English. |
Posted By: RedDragon1313
Date Posted: 16 October 2007 at 11:19am
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And unnessicary. Way to alienate someone who agrees with you man. And since you are such a professional and expert on the subject you NEED no one to add weight to your statements I see. I wouldn't expect him to back you up when you need it man, way to go.
Word of advice, try not to insult or tick-off everyone you meet, you just may make a friend or two somewhere down the road and somewhere down the road you just may need one. ------------- Never fear things that go bump in the night. If it means you harm it will stalk you silently. |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 16 October 2007 at 11:28am
Well this thread is going downhill quickly...
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Posted By: Yomillio
Date Posted: 16 October 2007 at 1:18pm
I tried.
I guess others aren't so impressed.
I was reinforcing the point that lightening the hammer will require a heavier spring because it won't have enough momentum to hit the valve with enough force to get the velocity you need. It's not a speculation, its a fact. -------------
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Posted By: Yomillio
Date Posted: 16 October 2007 at 1:20pm
Welcome to the Tippmann Forum. -------------
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 16 October 2007 at 1:26pm
LOL. Tallen =/= Yomillio. I think he just saw the sigs and assumed they were the same person. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: Yomillio
Date Posted: 16 October 2007 at 1:36pm
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We need personalized sigs now. -------------
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 16 October 2007 at 4:40pm
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Well, You'd think that the avatars would give it away that we're not all the same people, but whatever. The guy has shown his absolute inability to choke down his pride and swallow scientifically proven facts in other parts of the forum. So I don't expect a whole lot out of him on any level.
And since when did any of us need others to back us up on here? I'm pretty sure that Mack, Snake6, Us 3 and anyone else with half a brain are usually in complete agreement when technical issues come up. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: rvieira
Date Posted: 17 October 2007 at 9:25am
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No need to get ahead of yourself. You are not infallible. |
Posted By: Yomillio
Date Posted: 17 October 2007 at 2:38pm
Well, actually....
It is Tallen... -------------
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 17 October 2007 at 5:54pm
------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 17 October 2007 at 11:52pm
I lawled! 
I've never though myself infallible there rvieira, for example, I totally mis-called an A-5 flatline question with regards to putting it on a pro-series marker. However, what people such as myself tend to do is we make sure to educate ourselves as much as possible in the particular area of interest that we hold dear. I'd never compare myself to a great man like Tom Kaye, but what he did to advance the scientific understanding of how markers operate and what factors truly affect the flight of a paintball is what people such as myself, DeTrevni, Yomillio, Mack, and many others on this forum do ourselves on a much smaller scale. We educate ourselves by following in the footsteps of giants to attempt to learn from them and in turn, educate those around us. I'm certainly not infallible, but I do have a much greater base of knowledge when it comes to paintball than the majority of those who participate in this forum. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 19 October 2007 at 3:15am
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Not to get off the gotten off topic. But technically you wouldnt have to get a heavier hammer spring if you lightened the valve spring. You would however need to get a reg and a volumizer. It would pretty much be a homemade Low Pressure Kit. This would require that you know the weight of both the spring and the hammer of a LPK, or skillz in the physicz. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 19 October 2007 at 8:39am
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If you take a look at the LPK kit available from tippmann, it uses a lighter hammer with a lighter valve configuration due to the fact that the lack of pressure to literally blow-back the heavier hammer would cause poor efficiency and lower the cycling rate (Rate of Fire) dramatically. There's a very fine balance that must be established when dealing with mechanically operated LP.
Also, going ultra-low pressure isn't actually desirable. If you look at the efficiency rates of markers that operate below 300psi input, they tend to really really chew up air. This is because the greater volume of air needed to fire the round eventually offsets the gains of the lower-pressure usage. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 19 October 2007 at 3:45pm
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Lol, never said I thought it was a good idea, just said it could be done. lol.
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Posted By: hybrid-sniper
Date Posted: 21 October 2007 at 10:41pm
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Everyone having the same sig is putting pressure on the tubes. |