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[ltvills]

Well for Christmas I was thinking of adding a couple of guns to my clans armory .
(namely the trunk of my friends car)

So I bought a big salvo and Rapid fire rifle.

I was about to mod the big salvo when i came up with an idea...
What if I make The big salvo a single shot gun?

I mean its known to get great ranges on all darts (i heard 100 ft)

So I though, What if i make it only a single shot gun ?
The options i thought of are


blocking all other of those air tubes except one and making it a single shot kind of gun ?

getting all the tubes taping them all together Shoving it one barrel Then thats it ?


any suggestions?

i might post pictures for you guys
any way happy holidays

Edited by ltvills, 17 December 2007 - 06:29 AM.

[n-strike]

well for Christmas i was thinking of adding a guns to my clans armory
(namely the trunk of my friends car)

So i bought a big salvo and Rapid fire rifle.

I was about to mod the big salvo when i came up with an idea..
What if I make The big salvo a single shot gun

i mean its know to get great ranges on all darts (i heard 100 ft)

what if i make it only a single shot gun
my options are

namely blocking all other of those air tubes except one and making it a single shot kind of gun ?

getting all the tubes taping them all together Shoving it one barrel Then thats it ?


any suggestions?

i might post pictures for you guys
any way happy holidays

Nah, I think you should just keep it the way it is.

[Retiate]

I don't see why it wouldn't work, but I don't think it'd be worth it. You lose all the cool things about the Big Salvo and turn it into a Titan. If you want to try it out, get some couplers, elbows, 4 way connectors (those do exist, right?), and some pipe and make a single barrel attachment. That way you can still use 4 barrels if you want.

Or you could go full blown permanent single barrel like what you described doing. You could call it... The Littler Salvo.

[penguin807]

It'd be possible, but I don't think it's worth your time/money. Not to mention, if you decide to go though with it, then don't expect ranges above 80ft.

Edited by penguin807, 17 December 2007 - 01:11 AM.

[Prometheus]

Buy a Titan, and single or twin it. I have one I need to get rid of if you want a long range gun.

[Cmdrmack]

Blocking three of the four barrels would just make it eventually explode, as the air is pumped into four separate tanks.

It's not worth it, if you want a single shot gun, buy a Big Blast or a Titan. Don't destroy what makes the Big Salvo unique.

[Forsaken angel24]

Single it, I would like to know the results.
Make it a long barrel though. Try 2 feet to start and just start cutting down until the range drops a bit.

The reason I am recommending a longer barrel is the dart is going to have 4 puffs of air firing off at it within a very short amount of time. You wouldn't want those extra puffs to be wasted would you?

Let us know how it turns out.

Have all four barrels lead into one barrel that fires the dart.

[ltvills]

I have taken in all of what you guys have said so...
I am going to make a removable connection to merge the 4 original barrels together
( i will need a 5 way connector apparently rare*)
The reason is a removable connection wont destroy the original firing capability

im not sure if i can find a 4 way connector or what else
but i shall do it after Christmas hopefully working

Edited by ltvills, 17 December 2007 - 06:27 AM.

[One Man Clan]

ltvills, fix your grammar. You are giving my old avatar a bad name.

[ltvills]

OMC tried fixing my grammar, it sounds right to me now.

Sorry im giving you bad rep but i like playing warcraft specially dota (i like using dwarven eat shit.r as a hero)

Edited by ltvills, 17 December 2007 - 06:36 AM.

[ltvills]

um that one takes to much work and id rather keep the original shell
love to insert a blade

The real reason i want to keep the shell is it looks like a flame thrower
if i make it all into a single barreled gun (much like the one in halo)
http://www.halobase....lamethrower.jpg
lolz...not really but it reminds me of it

Edited by ltvills, 17 December 2007 - 08:29 AM.

[LastManAlive]

I think you best bet is to moddify the gun the way its been in the past so you get hellacious ranges with all the barrels, then make a new attachment just be adding couplers to the new barrels and putting a larger peice of pipe around the couplers and neck that pipe down to a micro stefan sized barrel. No 4 ways, and it would maybe look better. That way you don't need to worry about lengths and what not to get the air to travel the same speed out of all the barrels. Also, when you go to glue the couplers into the large, outter barrel, glue them in place and let the glue slope towards the middle towards your single barrel. This way the air doesn't hit a brick wall when it tries to get out and instead empty better into the single barrel.

[telekinetic]

um that one takes to much work and id rather keep the original shell
love to insert a blade

The real reason i want to keep the shell is it looks like a flame thrower
if i make it all into a single barreled gun (much like the one in halo)
http://www.halobase....lamethrower.jpg
lolz...not really but it reminds me of it

If you want to make it single shot, open it up, and cut the three lines to the other three barrels, and seal them off, otherwise you'll be pressurizing them every time you pump it up. Easiest/cheapest way to plug them is jam a really tight screw or bolt in the tube once you cut it, and then put a ziptie on it.

If you do this, I'll buy your three unused blast chambers for $10.

Edited by telekinetic, 18 December 2007 - 06:37 PM.

[ltvills]

someone told me that if i do this the gun might explode. I'm not sure if i will be selling the blast chambers if I do get rid of them.

[telekinetic]

someone told me that if i do this the gun might explode. I'm not sure if i will be selling the blast chambers if I do get rid of them.

If you do what I told you, you won't.

If anyone actually wants to make a single shot salvo and have it be worth a damn, do this:



Then replace the trigger unit with a blast button from a Hornet.

Edited by telekinetic, 18 December 2007 - 07:00 PM.

[ltvills]

I have taken in all of what you guys have said so...
I am going to make a removable connection to merge the 4 original barrels together
( i will need a 5 way connector apparently rare*)
The reason is a removable connection wont destroy the original firing capability

im not sure if i can find a 4 way connector or what else
but i shall do it after Christmas hopefully working

um.. Thats what i was planning to do
I have gone to the local hardware store and ordered a 4 way merger pvc (5 way conection).
They said that they will have it in by next year so i will have to wait. At the moment i am trying to decide on the length of my barrels.I have a fear that if the barrels from the 4 are to long that it might snap of or be totally out of balance. Any one have suggestions on how long the main barrel should be and how long the 4 barrels should be?

[Senor Wolfwood]

Alright, as I don't own a Big Salvo, I'm not sure of its exact size or of its barrel spacing, but I have a cost-effective easy way.
You'll need:
6x 1/2" cpvc elbow couplers
3x 1/2" cpvc T'joint couplers
small bits of 1/2"cpvc

Connect the each barrel to an elbow joint, the uppermost one and one of the two middle barrels facing each other, and the lower barrel facing the remaining middle barrel. If there is enough room, put a T'joint between each of the facing elbows. Place two more elbows on top of these facing each other, and put the remaining T'joint between them. I hope that makes sense.

[telekinetic]

You need to alter the trigger too. It is sequential fire right now, so even if you pull the trigger really fast, it will mostly be firing off a single barrel.

[Cmdrmack]

Ok, so we've established that it's possible, but why would one do it? It takes a four shot blaster that already gets beastly range and turns it into a single shot blaster that still isn't as powerful as a Titan. It seems like people either try to increase the "shotgun" aspect of this gun, or the four-shot semi-auto aspect of this gun. I think I read somewhere that this thing gets 150 feet, you're never going to need that much in a nerf war. If you just rip out the ARs this thing gets 80+ with Megas, a simple barrel replacement has been shown to increase that greatly.

Why on earth would you choose to remove the distinguishing feature of this blaster?

[Lynx]

He wants to try it...

What if you didn't want to take the loser aspect away from the Longshot?

No shotgun foregrips.

What if you wanted to keep the bow aspect of a crossbow?

We wouldn't have at least half of the beastly modifications to the Crossbow.

Changes are not bad. They are only change.

Innovations come from change. Great things happen from change.

Evolution, beastly mods, new technology.

Cmdrmack, shut up and stop criticizing others.

Not a flame, just an identification of wrongness in a direct fashion.

[Cmdrmack]

Valid point Lynx, I apologize.

However, to me, the multi-barrel platform is the main strength of the Big Salvo. Removing what makes the blaster unique doesn't make much sense to me.

Like singling a Longshot, sure it gives more power, but you lose the magazine function that makes the Longshot what it is. Some folks have done this, but mostly because part of their Longshot wasn't functioning properly.

Or like integrating the internals of the crossbow into another gun. Sure you can do it, but at the cost of the comfort and ease-of-use that, at least in part, makes the crossbow so sought after.

So by all means, single the Big Salvo, let us know how it works for you. But I don't see benefits outweighing the costs.

[ltvills]

If u guys haven't realized i am going to make it a removable connector...
i have already got all the stuff i need now (except the 5 way connector) and i am currently preparing to connect pieces together. My current plan is to make it a removable connection so i can still use it as a the normal 4 shot.
For 3 reasons

• If I fail/break the gun
• If I The ranges aren't good
• For further modifications

[telekinetic]

You aren't going to get increased air pressure, just increased volume, so to take advantage of that, you're really going to need a hellaciously long barrel.

Also, CPVC is terrible for air guns, unless you heat shrink your stefans quite a bit, so either make some custom darts, or use brass/PETG for your main barrel, which needs to be like 40" to take advantage of this setup.

[ltvills]

You aren't going to get increased air pressure, just increased volume, so to take advantage of that, you're really going to need a hellaciously long barrel.

Also, CPVC is terrible for air guns, unless you heat shrink your stefans quite a bit, so either make some custom darts, or use brass/PETG for your main barrel, which needs to be like 40" to take advantage of this setup.

Ive got a perfect sized micro that fits snuggly to my cpvc (i would use brass but my usual supplier wont be getting any until the holidays and i don't know where to get PETG in Australia and specially not worth shipping it )