It's Alive! [updated with video on page 2!]
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Topic: It's Alive! [updated with video on page 2!]
Posted By: tallen702
Subject: It's Alive! [updated with video on page 2!]
Date Posted: 19 April 2009 at 1:40am
Igor, throw the switch!
Obviously there's a metric butt-load of aesthetic work to be done. I'm also waiting for the eyes to arrive. As of now, she cycles. I also need to insulate the board. If I tighten down the grip frame screws to hand-tight, the board shorts. |
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Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 19 April 2009 at 7:56am
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sexi, you gunna modify a grip to hold a battery? ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 19 April 2009 at 10:34am
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Very cool. I can't wait to see it finished. ------------- 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: GOMEZ15
Date Posted: 19 April 2009 at 10:49am
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wow that will be a cool mod
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Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 19 April 2009 at 1:48pm
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dude, did you fill in the gills? ...
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Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 19 April 2009 at 5:34pm
Burn the Witch!!
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merc wrote:Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 19 April 2009 at 7:10pm
Not the third switch!? ------------- 
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 19 April 2009 at 9:29pm
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I did mill off the gills. But never fear. I've got another original 98 in pristine condition with a nice silver-to-black fade job on it with gills intact.
They're milled off so that later, I can run with a dmlcd style breech to shorten the overall length. Yes, for now the battery will be housed in the fore grip. Anyway, it's going to take some major tuning to get it to shoot fully. right now it cycles, but it's too short. I'll have to re-work the forward and rearward pulse numbers. I'm also going to eventually run a 4-way solenoid and 2-way the ram. For now, it's gonna be ghetto gunfighter time. 
Eyes came in yesterday btw. Will mill and place them soon enough. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 20 April 2009 at 1:51am
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Frankmann..awesome
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Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 8:46pm
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tallen you got access to a machine shop or u dremmeling the crap? ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 23 May 2009 at 8:30pm
| I dont know how the hell you people figure this crap out. Videos are mandatory for this project. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 23 May 2009 at 9:10pm
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Merc, Dremmel and a steady hand
Choop, I've gotta re-solder the solenoid connection and then I'll take photos/video of the whole shebang and post it. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: TinMan
Date Posted: 23 May 2009 at 9:56pm
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Center feed that beast.
Why the battery box when you did the foregrip battery mod?
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 12 July 2009 at 1:21am
Holy zombie tallen thread! Thought I'd look back through and see if I'd missed anything on this. Looks like I did. The battery box is where the solenoid is housed. The DMLCD board takes up the entirety of the grip frame due to the LCD screen. The Tippmann Effect version of the Matrix-98 hybrid pushed the solenoid to the front of the frame and forced the board out of the back of the frame. As a consequence, the grip frame had to be hacked in places which left the board exposed to the elements. I simply moved the solenoid to the battery box and routed the battery through the dead air chamber to the fore-grip. Since I was making it a "shorty" with the mini-cocker vertical adapter, I could use the stock foregrp panels to protect the battery terminal and battery from the elements. Eventually I'll hack that off and fashion a new battery box which will sit under the chamber just forward of the mini-cocker adapter allowing me to turn down the power-tube, shorten the bolt and ram stroke and shorten the whole project by about 2.5" I've got the wiring set up properly and found my cold short that was giving me issues with the on/off operation of the marker when the bolts were tightened down all the way in the grip frame and it now shoots beautifully even if it is a bit ghastly to look at. Once I get back from vacation, I'll shoot some video. I'm going to paint the whole thing this august after I take the time to mill channels in the exterior of the frame and install the anti-chop eyes and counter-sink the battery cable. I'll probably cover those with jb weld or the like and sand the finish down until you can't tell they're even there. I'm thinking a red-to-white fade/splash. I like to stand out. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 12 July 2009 at 1:47am
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OMG OLD BUMP hehehehe Also... whats the conversion from Metric butt-load to SAE crap-load? |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 12 July 2009 at 1:56am
SAE=1.61803399x(Metric/3.14159265) ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: ShotFromAfar
Date Posted: 16 July 2009 at 6:24pm
No doubt ill get flamed for this but what exactly did you do? It looks like the most beast SMG for paintball I've ever seen! -------------  
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Posted By: TippmannLazEffect
Date Posted: 18 July 2009 at 8:16pm
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I would keep it looking ugly for a bit, especially if you play at a legit field. Keep the guys thinking you have a pos and then own them on the field with it. "I also need to insulate the board. If I tighten down the grip frame screws to hand-tight, the board shorts." Even though I believe you said you fixed the issue, all I need was put a thin piece of plastic under the board which blocked any contact from the board to the metal of the frame. Great job and awesome replies to others questions A+ ------------- 
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 01 August 2011 at 11:45pm
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UPDATE!!!!!
Finally having time to work on this thing again after a 2 year hiatus, I have everything sorted, finishing the burying of the power cables, and am currently hollowing out the fore-grips to house the battery. I went back and used quick disconnects instead of hard solders for the splices, and had to make some modifications under the solenoid shroud to keep the LP line from kinking which caused poor cyclical performance. Now she runs like a beast! So, it's an original Tippmann E-Bolt ram, solenoid, and micro-switch coupled with a DMLCD board in an original Tippmann Model 98 body. I made the trigger magnetically returned with adjustable travel (set screw to make it short) The forward and back pulses are dead on for the ram, so she'll rip. All that's left to do is loop the lp from the solenoid to the ram so it doesn't crimp as easily, paint the hollowed out fore grip, bondo over the battery lines, and give it the final coats of sage green and clear coat and she's ready to go! 
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Posted By: Maiden Hell
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 12:30am
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Nice work, where did you learn how to do this? ------------- Made In Hell |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 2:24am
People have been tricking out e-bolts with other boards since the first DMLCD boards started getting cheap. It's easier to do with a DM4 or better board due to the fact that they used LED indicators and weren't as bulky. The original Tippmann Effect e-bolt was a DMLCD board IIRC and I felt like paying homage. As for learning what points to solder to, etc. that was fairly easy so long as the old wiring harnesses were still in place. The biggest difficulty was making sure not to cross the polarity on the battery to board connection and the solenoid polarity. After that, it was simply a matter of desoldering the old connections, inserting stripped wire leads and re-soldering. It doesn't hurt that I spent my 3 years in college as a Tippmann, AGD, Kingman, WGP, and WDP certified tech. 
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Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 12:37pm
| nice project man |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 3:11pm
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Looks purdy. It needs wood grips. ------------- 
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 3:41pm
Got some you wanna give me?
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 05 August 2011 at 3:59pm
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Posted By: Arson24
Date Posted: 05 August 2011 at 4:36pm
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tallen thats sicks man good work if you come over to A5og there is a guy on there named "Captin quinn" he is starting to making wood grips your choice of wood ------------- 
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