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[FoamSniper]

I'm not sure if this is more of an Arctic Shock into a Maverick, or a Maverick into Arctic Shock, or a Arctic Shock and Maveric into a Homemade mod, but I'm more or less trying to make a semi auto revolver type. You're probably asking yourself "Why doesn't he just take the turret off an AT-2k?" I don't have one :)

I've got the valves and pumps from 2 arctic shocks and the turret from the maverick (including the trigger mechanism that turns it). Maverick parts aside, I'm having a real problem with range from my current design. I was actually getting signifigantly better range from my de-water'ed arctic shocks than I am now. Arctic Shock takes too long to type, so I'm abbreviating it "AS"

My current setup is pretty basic. I've got an 8" long piece of 3" pvc for the primary air tank, the air is pumped into the back end via the 2 AS pumps (cuts down on charge time having both). An AS valve covers the other end and releases pressure into the firing tank, which is a 3" long piece of 1" pvc which is capped on the other end by the other AS valve, which releases pressure into a temporary crayola barrel.

For some reason, I'm only getting ranges of about 20' flat, and I'm not understanding why. At first, I thought I was losing pressure, so I primed the weapon and put it in my bathtub. Air loss was negligible, a few bubbles here and there, but I'm not sealing it until the blaster is in its final form. I'm pretty sure the problem isn't that my firing chamber is too small since the air taink on an NS-1 is tiny and shoots further (rather embarassing actually). I don't have a digital camera so I can't post any pics, I was hoping someone here might have a guess as to my why this thing shoots so poorly when I was getting ranges of about 60' from the de-water'ed and crayola'ed AS (fired once and took forever to prime, probably would have shot further with a longer barrel...).

--FoamSniper

[CaptainSlug]

Are you sure you're building up enough pressure in your main tank to actually provide the needed push? Also your supply/firing tank is much smaller than any super soaker tank and may not provide the needed volume to fire a dart very far.

[FoamSniper]

I figured it out. I took something off the second valve that I should not have which was causing it to open too slowly. Thanks though