better paintballs
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Forum Name: Paintball Ideas / News From Tippmann
Forum Description: Got a new idea or a way to improve something?
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Topic: better paintballs
Posted By: Ben Dover II
Subject: better paintballs
Date Posted: 20 October 2007 at 7:43pm
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Is it possible for them to put dimples in the paintballs because i bet it would make them go way more strait. ------------- 
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 20 October 2007 at 9:15pm
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http://www.automags.org/forums/showthread.php?t=59298 - Read here. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: hybrid-sniper
Date Posted: 20 October 2007 at 11:26pm
| You need to be forcibly assaulted with two banhammers at once. |
Posted By: Ben Dover II
Date Posted: 21 October 2007 at 9:39am
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hybrid-sniper wrote:Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 21 October 2007 at 10:59am
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HAHAHA. Dimpled paintballs would be extremely expensive BTW. |
Posted By: hybrid-sniper
Date Posted: 21 October 2007 at 12:12pm
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Your point being? |
Posted By: Ben Dover II
Date Posted: 21 October 2007 at 12:27pm
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 21 October 2007 at 7:20pm
------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 21 October 2007 at 8:36pm
| Just pay the one time cost of a flatline or apex and it would be much cheaper. |
Posted By: Zippo25
Date Posted: 22 October 2007 at 1:39am
| lots of problems with dimple idea.. but it would be neat to experiment with. we should just fill some paintballs with helium.. then we could get AMAZING range.. specially if we could make the casing light enough so they could reach a sort of neutral buoyancy.. thye would just keep flying till they stopped and floated around and people could run into them............. |
Posted By: hybrid-sniper
Date Posted: 22 October 2007 at 1:42am
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Ever try to hit a home run with a wiffle ball? Or have you ever tried to hit a ping pong ball 200 yards with a golf club? It's not happening. The object has to have fairly significant mass in order to fly very far. |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 22 October 2007 at 9:14pm
| Helium inflated footballs travel a shorter distance than regular air filled footballs. |
Posted By: Zippo25
Date Posted: 22 October 2007 at 11:13pm
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i was trying to be sarcastic.... |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 23 October 2007 at 5:03pm
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In order to sound sarcastic on the interwebz, you need to include a lot of ridiculous smilies and a lot of "zomg's." Ex. Liek ZOMG, ur totally awesome!!1! 
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Posted By: Zippo25
Date Posted: 23 October 2007 at 6:02pm
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ZOMG my bad!!!
i guess i assumed the "rediculousness" of my post would have spoke for itself.. guess it wasn't funny tho... i shall hang my head in shame |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 23 October 2007 at 11:26pm
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ZOMG my sarcasameter just pegged! WOOT! WOOT! WOOT!
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Posted By: ctchofday
Date Posted: 24 October 2007 at 12:45am
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dimpled... like a golf balls... which uses those dimples to "catch" air we want the paintballs to go through the air... not catch it ------------- Xbl:PhantomReign97
'99 Snpr II, ½d Karni, E-Orracle, 2k4 Spstk, 2k5 Prstk, PMR SE, A5, 98 |
Posted By: Brianwawrz
Date Posted: 24 October 2007 at 6:59pm
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Im not sure that I understand. Do you mean the kind of dimples that are
in paintballs when you get them from kmart? Those dont fly farther, they just break in your barrel. |
Posted By: Ben Dover II
Date Posted: 27 October 2007 at 10:58pm
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Posted By: rvieira
Date Posted: 29 October 2007 at 11:15am
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Chuckle. Not much of a golf player? |
Posted By: ctchofday
Date Posted: 05 November 2007 at 2:13am
They use the dimples so that you can control where it goes, which isnt always straight, right? you use the dimples to "catch" the air so it pulls itself in the somewhat desired direction... also to help the ball travel farther in some cases... we only want our paintballs to go one direction... straight.. which is why we dont need dimples , and at the velocities we shoot, anything past 180-220ft doesnt usually break anyway due to friction of the air and spherical shape
no? anything not smooth will always be less aerodynamic than anything smooth i seriously doubt taking a hammer to your car and dimpling it will improve your aerodynamics ------------- Xbl:PhantomReign97
'99 Snpr II, ½d Karni, E-Orracle, 2k4 Spstk, 2k5 Prstk, PMR SE, A5, 98 |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 05 November 2007 at 6:55am
| It's pretty cool when they take a swinging machine that will hit a golfball the exact same every time and take a perfectly round golfball and having it hit it and then a dimpled golfball, the dimpled golfball travels much further. |
Posted By: GhilleMan
Date Posted: 03 December 2007 at 1:56pm
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I bet the starter of this thread couldnt find his ass with two hands and a spotlight ------------- Smart Parts, Stupid People... Go figure Shoot To Thrill on stockclass, mcarter, and the dreadful pbn Carter Mini Comp, Carter Tricar, PPS Blazer |
Posted By: Yomillio
Date Posted: 03 December 2007 at 7:17pm
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The funny thing is that this has actually been produced before. When I got into paintball, I bought a container of 500 dimpled paintballs. They werent terribly expensive, and I think were produced to test the waters by some big name company. I wish I had at least kept the box, but I think they were called 'Amp' or something. ------------- 
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Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 04 December 2007 at 1:27pm
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Golfballs only go straight when you hit them just right. Ask anyone who as a wicked slice, like me; when the ball slices, it leaves going straight, but it has a side spin on it. With the exception of the flatline barrel and Apex, we can't control the direction that a paintball will spin. And those barrel put just enough spin on a paintball that the trajectory is perfect. If there were dimples to catch the air better, a Flatline would curve VERY dramatically upward after it left the barrel. ------------- http://www.anomationanodizing.com - My Site 
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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 04 December 2007 at 10:44pm
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http://airsoldier.com/%7Ehaveblue/tech/patents/USD0501901.pdf - Link .
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Posted By: TheWarHam
Date Posted: 05 December 2007 at 7:18pm
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Well that patent was made 2 years ago and it still has never caught on so... that probably says something. Besides, even if this design did work, these paintballs would be AMAZINGLY expensive anyway. ------------- Indeedly |
Posted By: sniper6
Date Posted: 09 December 2007 at 12:40am
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I have just realized that most people who shoot each other with paintballs must not golf, because if you know anything about golf, you know that dimpled golf balls travel up to twice as far as smooth ones. The more surface area of the golfball that is covered in dimples, the further it goes, which is why golf ball manufacturers are always patenting their dimple patterns. |