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[Maniacal Coyote]

I'm not sure whether this belongs here or in homemades. Anyway, I'm trying to figure out how to get a 1/2" CPVC barrel to fit in a socket for 1/2" PVC; it's a little too large to just wedge into a stub of SCH40, and I have no bloody clue how to get thinwall.

 

Also, why are so many modded blasters couplered? Wouldn't it be better to put a stub of pipe in the front? That way you wouldn't have as much deadspace.

[Langley]

You can find some Magic PVC or just ream out the inside of sched 80 PVC with a knife, dremel, file, lathe, or piece of sandpaper wrapped around something cylindrical.

 

 

Many modded blasters with a coupler are probably either pre-hopper or not powerful enough to hopper.  On some blasters, you can't put the wye right up against the blaster anyway, because the shell would be in the way of a hopper, so there's no reason not to just stick a coupler on there in case you want to use some other barrel arrangement. 

[Buffdaddy]

Couplers get used mainly because they're easy for everyone to get, and simple to use. If you're worried about the dead space, you can always use some kind of bushing so that the barrel sits closer to the plunger tube.

 

As long as you chamfer the inside of a stub of 1/2" S40 PVC, you can hammer 1/2" CPVC into it.

[Remzak]

A 1/2" CPVC coupler has the same outer diameter as a piece of 1/2" schedule 40 PVC. You can also use a heat gun on the PVC, then jam in the CPVC once the PVC is more pliable.

[Maniacal Coyote]

Thx, need to hit my local ACE on Wednesday.