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I call this the hose handle homemade

I know this has been done before but those all relied on glue to hold a piece of pvc inside the handle, but this methods; hold pressure better, is cheaper and easier to make.

This is a cheap, quick and easy to make homemade secondary that gets ranges well over 100 ft.
parts list

3/4 INCH THREADED MALE COUPLING

large tire valve

hose nozzle

1/2 inch bushing / coupling (or whatever else you want to use to connect your barrel to the hose nozzle)

bike pump




Your hose handle must have the ridge hi-lighted with green in the Handel shown in the picture above.


Then take your 3/4 INCH THREADED MALE COUPLING and you tire valve.


Then stick the thin end of the tire valve into the the threaded end of the 3/4 INCH THREADED MALE COUPLING.


Then screw it into the handle of the hose nozzle. (as tight as you can)


Finally add a couplor or bushing to the front of the hose nozzle,if you have a different nozzle you will have to couplour the nozzle differently.

If you don't want to run around with a bike pump attached to your gun remove it since there is a check valve in the tire valve it will still hold air and you can put it in your pocket as a backup shot.

I recommend holding the barrel wile firing for better accuracy.

It is very effective and cheap.

Range test with 4 pumps.

90 ft
100 ft
110 ft
97 ft
103 ft

This is my new snap catch and priming mechanism.
I redid the hole post and photos because people wanted me to use better grammar, i left my clear lens cover on my camera so the quality was terrible.

parts

steal washer od 1 1/2 id 1/4
1/2 polycarb
1/4 bolt
1/2 cpvc 
1/2 endcap
concave steal washer 1 inch
rubber washer

You might have to use different size part for different size plunger tubes.
I am using 1 1/2 abs as my plunger tube, which is weird because the id is 1 5/8 and its called 1 1/2 this statement confused some people in the original post.



Start by cutting a plunger tube out of 1/2 cpvc. Then cut a 1/2 end cap in half and glue it to the end of the plunger tube.then drill a 1/4 hole in the end cap. That hole on the side is not supposed to be there ignore it. It looks like there is a crack in the end cap but that is a hair ignore that to.




Then cut a doughnut shape out of 1/2 polycarb.

make the id of the piece of polycarb the same as the od of you end cap

Then make the od of the piece of pollycarb the same as the od of your larger steal washer.



Then you are going to want to round out the edges to make a ramp like so



Then goop the polycarb to the outside of the end cap on your plunger tube.



Then goop the lager steal washer to the flat side of the polycarb ramp.



Now make a skirt seal on the end with a concave washer and a rubber washer and then put the bolt in through the front into the end cap.



Now for the priming mechanism it is the same as ace's singled snap (ace bow)
Couldn't find a link to a forum post about it but here is a youtube link

This is not me its ace



What i did was drill a 3/4 hole in a 2 inch abs grip were a bolt would normally go so the bolt could stick out but i didn't use it so i cut it down and used it as a pump grip.

Closed


Open



Close up



more info

stroke 4 inches
springs lanard shotgun nitefinder and a 2 inch by 3/4 id spring
this give me lots of power
ranges 90s
it ways about 5 or 6 pounds because of the 40 screw i had to put in it

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