Sandridge F5 Tiny Tornado
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Topic: Sandridge F5 Tiny Tornado
Posted By: tallen702
Subject: Sandridge F5 Tiny Tornado
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 1:43pm
Uber RARE and ALLL MINE!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Shipped today, should be here by mid week next week. I'll put up better picks when I get it all cleaned up. For those that don't know. The Sandridge F5 was the first electronic 'cocker there was. The prototype was made by mashing a 'cocker together with a bunch of spare parts from a Brass Eagle Rainmaker. The first incarnations were bulky and a pain to use as they had a huge box that sat under the grip-frame to house the wiring and boards. The one I have is the Tiny Tornado conversion that uses an Angel LCD frame to house everything. That mass of tubing and wires up front is the MAC valve assembly and necessary tubing to run the pneumatics from the circuit board. This is basically the great-great-grandaddy of the e-blade. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
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Posted By: kurieitaa
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 1:48pm
nice tallen, and im glad im part of the family  .------------- 
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 1:50pm
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K- I'll be sending you the E-1 manual via e-mail tonight. Don't worry I haven't forgotten about it. I've just been working a lot the last two days... and sitting poised over e-bay around 10:35 last night. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: kurieitaa
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 1:52pm
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no rush man, im just making some clear grips for it, got no air nor paint to shoot anyways. -------------
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Posted By: +DreX+
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 2:01pm
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Very Nice Tallen; That must suck to clean if you get hit in all those hoses.. ------------- Insert Fail Here |
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 2:04pm
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Pssh, you should have spent that money on hookers and blow.
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 2:09pm
Well, the auction was actually for said hookers and blow, but apparently that was code for a paintball marker. I've filed a dispute with e-bay, but I don't think it's going anywhere...   ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Snake6 wrote:Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 3:05pm
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Hookers and blow look much more attractive. I am sorry, but that is terribly ugly...
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 3:33pm
Oh, it IS ugly, but it's kinda like a butter-face in that respect, from the back end, it's all good. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 3:34pm
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Ah, fair enough. I assume you paid a lot of money for it. You should look for a Westwood next.
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 4:24pm
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$227.33 for the whole shebang. Not bad considering that the tank is worth half that alone. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: pbdude985
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 8:34pm
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awsome find very nice ------------- 
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Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 8:48pm
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I like it. A lot. Should be hella fun to play with.
------------- 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: karll
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 9:29pm
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I am jealous as always. Pics whenever you can, I need new fap material.
------------- PlentifulBalls "It's cool, I'll be dead before I'm not pretty." Gatyr "Stupid things exist." 
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Posted By: dirtbike14455
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 10:43pm
| whatever floats your boat man |
Posted By: TheWarHam
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 3:09am
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Is that... an engine... on the front?
Haha nice find, Im sure theres like 2 for sale ON EARTH, now. ------------- Indeedly |
Posted By: fourfiftysix
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 10:15am
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ill tade ya for some hookers n blow ------------- transform into the ghost rider |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 11:04am
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Posted By: Yomillio
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 12:52pm
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Of course, very nice. I wouldn't expect anything less than this. Personally, I'm quite interested on how much that all must weigh... ------------- 
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Posted By: ctchofday
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 1:09pm
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Pure Secks. could you post some close-ups of the front pneu's? and that braided hose has to go. ------------- Xbl:PhantomReign97
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 1:29pm
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She's being stripped and re-built as far as the setup goes.
I'm going to have the body stripped and re-annoed by Odd PB with something fun along the lines of laser engraving. I'll get a close up of my pneus when it gets here (it's coming parcel post even though dude said it would be priority flat-rate. I'm cool with it though as PP will probably cost almost as much). Probably mid next week. 
This is K_macocker's bob-long F5. Similar to mine, but different down on the frame Anyway, the loops and little black boxes you see around the ram are the Hall-Effect sensors. They determine when the ram is in it's rearward most position and it's forward most. This eliminates the need for timing the board using a forward pulse and rearward pulse like the Eclipse and Race frames use. It simply determines when the bolt is opened and when it is closed. It will keep a ball from pinching, etc. The two MAC valves operate two separate things. The primary MAC runs the cocking action of the marker just like a RACE, E-series, etc do. The second MAC runs the spring-returned pneumatic ram in the grip which trips the sear. That fact makes it one of the most unique true electro-pneumatic markers in the world in the sense that it is fully electro-pneumatic as is uses a pneumatic means to actuate the valve, but the means is also a sear-tripping device. Why they didn't just use an air-ram is beyond me, especially with the use of Hall-Effect sensors on the ram that would eliminate the need for an independently operating LPR and code set for the ram. The only drawbacks to the system are the mass of tubing up front (which I will be able to reduce using updated 'noids and RACE or Eclipse 'noid covers) and the necessity of using a specialized ram with a magnetic piston head in it to trip the sensors. I can't wait for it to get here and for me to take it to the local Pev's just to see the funny looks I get.  ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 4:43pm
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I definitely read that wrong the fisrt time. Dont laser engrave this body, 'tis rare and nice. ------------- 
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Posted By: kurieitaa
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 7:39pm
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nice, i cant wait, definitely keep us posted. -------------
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Posted By: karll
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 7:42pm
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There is another one on ebay. I am going to pick it up and build it better, faster, and stronger then your sandridge will ever be. HAHAHAA
------------- PlentifulBalls "It's cool, I'll be dead before I'm not pretty." Gatyr "Stupid things exist."
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 7:58pm
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*Z Snap* OH NO U JUS DI-INT -------------
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Posted By: Ken Majors
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 9:43pm
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Very cool cocker.
These were from back in the day when people that made cockers had the idea that "he who makes the most complicated, most moving parts, completely Rube Goldbergesque" machine WINS!! ...in fact...I think someone should design the Rube Goldberg cocker. Didn't Big Al have a Ssssssandridge Cocker? (the sssss was the sound it made) ------------- RLTW |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 07 January 2008 at 11:37am
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I can't remember if he had a Sandridge or a Westwood. I thought it was a Westwood with a 3-way that hissed non-stop. Of course, my old palmer's quik-switch hissed just as badly. Honestly, I couldn't tell you what he's shooting now as he had to get on the road with that bone-stock A-5 shooting pansy that he always hangs out with. (Evil Fran)
Ken, you making it to any Skunkwerkz games this year? I'm also doing the MCB Cold *** Game in Dillsburg, PA as well as spring and fall castle. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: stick_boy_2002
Date Posted: 07 January 2008 at 12:50pm
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nice, i cant wait to see it after you send it to ODD. im thinking about sending one of matrix's in but im not sure which one yet. ------------- 
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Posted By: fourfiftysix
Date Posted: 07 January 2008 at 8:06pm
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lol ummm well they will be impots for you i might throw in a few domestic just for fun ------------- transform into the ghost rider |
Posted By: Ken Majors
Date Posted: 07 January 2008 at 9:38pm
I stand corrected...it was indeed a Wesssstwood. We hope to make at least ONE game this year...somewhere. Not sure where just yet...but I have a brand new Superstock that needs to be fired in anger. It is my first foray into cocker-dom. So far..I have no complaints. ------------- RLTW |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 07 January 2008 at 9:40pm
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See my sig? Now you need it. Welcome to the Revolution Ken! ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: Evil Elvis
Date Posted: 07 January 2008 at 10:11pm
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Not as Nice as Picasso's
So did you ever get back to him? Or did you blew him off when this offer came in the Table? ------------- 
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Posted By: karll
Date Posted: 07 January 2008 at 10:21pm
Technically, I still own a cocker, so I am rejoining the ranks. ------------- PlentifulBalls "It's cool, I'll be dead before I'm not pretty." Gatyr "Stupid things exist."
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 07 January 2008 at 11:38pm
Eh, the problem with Pic's marker is this, every time I start saving up for it, something nice comes along and I spend on it. Regardless, if you are honestly interested in picking up the Merlin from Pic, you can go for it man. I've got a few other projects now that are going to be taking up most of my money. The big one involves a large clear rock of no tangible use and a lump of shiny ore bent into a hollow circle. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 07 January 2008 at 11:58pm
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Oh yeah. Good luck with that man. Remember, the larger and shinier the diamond, the longer and more successful the relationship will be!
------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 12:19am
SHHHHH!!!! Don't tell her that! It's the opposite you fool! ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 11:42am
If most of the forumers' significant others visited and read some posts.... *shiver* the chaos.. -------------
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Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 5:21pm
Heh Heh... I mean, it's for the Sandridge right? ------------- 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: +DreX+
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 5:32pm
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Tallen can you make a vid of it cycling / firing? I want to see if the hoses on the LPR move at all. ------------- Insert Fail Here |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 5:52pm
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yeah, I gotta get it in the mail first, should be in at work tomorrow. I'll have to re-time it first, but then I should be able to cycle it.
What you really want to see fire is my DMLCD. I aired it up for the first time since modding the trigger group over christmas. It is insanely fast. You'd think I had the debounce set to off or something, but it's not bounce. You can shake it back and forth, nudge the trigger, etc, but it isn't a bounce action. It is effing insane! I'll take vid tomorrow. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |