[Carbon]

The key won't have that much detail. Homemades are usually a lot more flexible as far as ammo, so a complete breakdown of ammo type isn't that helpful. Marking the specific ballgun projects is helpful, just because there haven't been that many. Keep in mind, a strong airgun can be made to shoot balls with the proper barrel.

[Draconis]

Ubermensch, on Sep 14 2008, 10:45 AM, said:

No. M for megas and m for micros. Mongos are not very common, and that obscure symbol for the micros just doesn't seem good to me.

Do you mean the Greek letter mu? The internationally recognized symbol to denote 'micro'? Seems like that would be the appropriate thing to use.

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Homemades are usually a lot more flexible as far as ammo, so a complete breakdown of ammo type isn't that helpful.

Shot down again. *sigh* I see what you mean though. With a simple barrel switch you can shoot megas or micros. Balls certainly are a different story.

[Carbon]

The directory has been updated with a project key, which should make it much more convenient when browsing for a certain type of gun. As it turns out, there's a lot more variety than just spring and air.

Here's the key:

S: Compression Spring
E: Extension Spring (incl. bungees, surgical tubing, and metal coil)
F: Flywheel
G: Gas (CO2/combustion/etc)
A: Air
R: Ramrocket
B: Ballgun (utilizing either spring or air)

Just about the entire directory has been catalogued. As per normal, let me know if you have any corrections/suggestions/whatnot.

This post has been edited by Carbon: 15 September 2008 - 07:22 PM

[Draconis]

Yay for SEFGARB!

[rbtying]

Since this thread is a sticky... I don't feel as bad about posting in it.

Anyways, while i think the key is a wonderful addition to the directory, I think it'd be a whole lot more useful if it used a unique string of some sort (ex. S (for spring) becomes Spr and E (extention spring becomes Ext). It would allow for usage of the CTRL+F function to browse all homemades that use a specific function.

[Carbon]

rbtying, on Jan 8 2009, 07:58 PM, said:

Since this thread is a sticky... I don't feel as bad about posting in it.

Anyways, while i think the key is a wonderful addition to the directory, I think it'd be a whole lot more useful if it used a unique string of some sort (ex. S (for spring) becomes Spr and E (extention spring becomes Ext). It would allow for usage of the CTRL+F function to browse all homemades that use a specific function.

Good idea! I'll add that next time I update the Directory.

EDIT: The updated project key has been added.

This post has been edited by Carbon: 09 January 2009 - 11:13 AM

[Gooberz]

I'm somewhat dissapointed. Many of the threads linked in this topic have all of the pictures broken...

[Just Some Bob]

Gooberz, on Jan 11 2009, 01:53 PM, said:

I'm somewhat dissapointed. Many of the threads linked in this topic have all of the pictures broken...

The way I see it, you have two options:

1) find everyone an internet site which offers free image hosting in perpetuity.

2) get used to disappointment.





Actually, I lied -- #2 is not optional. This is the real world. Anyone who ever made you think life was fair was merely setting you up so they or their kin could later take advantage of you or yours.

[bigred1rifleman]

Never Mind
~Br1

This post has been edited by bigred1rifleman: 09 March 2009 - 12:24 PM

[fogeater]

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This post has been edited by fogeater: 30 January 2012 - 07:12 PM