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[Ares]

Here's how to make a multi-shot single-pump config: Make your air chambers as normal(release valve on "front", connected to the barrel) but leave the back open for now. Buy multiple ball valves(the fact that they are slow doesnt matter here) and put them on the end of the air tank that a bike valve usually goes to(for the pump)We'll call these the"chamber valves". Put more pipe out the end of the chamber valves, and make connect the ends together(not the barrels,but the"backs") into one big thing via couplers(t-valves or whatever works) leaving only one little hole open. (You should have one big air tank, the chamber valves, multiple hose handles, ball valves, solenoid valves, or whatever on the "fronts", and the barrels." Then use the leftover opening in the tank to make your standard end-cap bike valve thing or use a tubeless one. Done!

To operate:Open up all chamber valves, pressurize via bike pump or whatever until fully pressurized, then close the chamber valve. The inside of it should should still be pressurized. Close each one. Now you have multiple guns all tied onto one pump, ready to kill!

[Ares]

Pleas epost your thoughts and comments!

hiss...........

[THIRST]

seperating the air chamber like this will give you a less powerful shot. Homemades generally have to be pumped alot and are therefore not used, in this it sounds like you would get 4 semi-powerful; shots off in about 30-50 pumps. this could easily work if the airchambers are small and therefore you could have smaller airtanks with a better air pressure producing a nice shot. Then it would work. Ill try it, nice idea...It would work well as a pistol since they are already small and require less pumping due to the smaller air chamber. But the smaller the air chamber doesnt mean worse, in most cases it means better, because you can pump it less with the same or even better air ration achieving more power.

[Ares]

Yup I made a nice breeching single-shot home-made loser rifle. 12 pumps or so. Enormously long but 1"wide vinyl air tank. Beauty.

hiss.........

[THIRST]

Can you get me the volume in cubed inches? 12 pumps? how far does it shoot? What kind of vlave are you using?

[Ares]

hose handle. 1" or so wide vinyl tubing, about 3 3/4' in length. 4 in. long 1/2" schd.40 PVC barrel, soots all the way through the bottom not just from the tip. Accurate as a needle, dude.