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Posted 06 February 2008 - 09:47 PM
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Posted 06 February 2008 - 11:15 PM
CaptainSlug, on Feb 6 2008, 09:37 PM, said:
Ok, I got it. But one thing I don't quite understand is the part I quoted above. Doesn't a spring just need to compressed? Or does it depend on how hard you pull it? Or is it the first, but you have to exert some amount of force anyways on the trigger? And is there any way if I did make this I could make the trigger pull easier?Semi-automatic springer is kind of an oxymoron anyways. The amount of force any of your fingers can comfortably pull on their own is only around 4 or 5 pounds (2 or 3 being much less strenuous). And that's not enough to propel a foam dart any useful distance.
To reach 80 feet you're going to need a minimum of 15 pounds of force pushing a plunger that has a diameter of atleast 3/4".
Posted 06 February 2008 - 11:22 PM
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Posted 06 February 2008 - 11:48 PM
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Salmon, on Feb 6 2008, 06:47 PM, said:
Ok, so there I was, walking along the aisles of Family Dollar, and I found a very interesting contraption. It was a small toy gun made of clear plastic that shot rubber pellets. I decided to get it just for novelty, and because I was curious. So I got home and tried it out. It got measly range, 15' at most, but then I realized that its barrel was pathetic, as was its plunger. But then I took another gaze through the transparent plastic and realized that it had no spring! Or so it seemed. Turns out, it was controlled by a torsion/return spring that was pressed against the trigger(perhaps weakly glued) that lightly pushed against the trigger, and then the end of the spring was glued to the end of the tiny plunger. So what happened was, you put the magazine in, pulll the trigger and release it quickly, and the plunger rod flies forward and hits the pellet out of the barrel. I thought about this for a while, got on MSPaint, and drew my self a diagram of how to (possibly) convert it to a homemade foam-spitter. My only problem is, it would be SUPER hard to pull the trigger, because my homemade gun idea has a compression spring as well as a torsion/return spring thingy. And it would probably not get good range. So, without further adieu, here it is, my MSPaint. And my question to you is, is it possible?
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