Judging Eagle

That One Guy, on Jul 3 2010, 02:33 PM, said:

I think it would be cool if you flipped the entire design upside-down, and have a spring fed clip and the loading not unlike a winchester shot gun with the handle on the bottom.

Would be, but then I can't build a hopper on the top, and I won't be able to have it gravity-fed anymore.

I'm planning on having a base ammo load of 18 rounds; and a hopper could anywhere from 32 to 64 more rounds.

Actually, the Top sight "works" As in. it actually works to help me aim my shots.

I taped in a needle in the rear sight; and a pair of pins that 'cross' in an upside down T; when I line the front and back on my target; I'll hit it at 20-25".

After that, I need to aim up about to the 'top' of the field of view that the sight is showing. In order to hit past 20 feet.

I'm going to do a lot more testing this weekend.

I haven't actually 'cut' anything that I wouldn't want to cut anyway. I think that I've cut.... the hole in the circular air restrictor; then bevelled and sanded, and filed it, so that it would allow smoother airflow. Aside from that, there is nothing that I have actually cut in this gun.

Most of the material is intact, and the only real mods have either been removal of things (air restrictors); sealing gaps (the white plastic air restrictor in the front of the plunger tube is now epoxy puttied to the base of the Crayola marker barrel. The ID of both is the same, making for nearly perfect removal of dead space and gaps between where the air fromthe plunger marches up the barrel to the dart.

Ideally, I'll fill in the rest of the front, so that the plunger fits in perfectly with the opening that leads to the barrel; removing the most deadspace possible.

The Plunger is still intact, I've simply covered the 'gaps' in the top that cause deadspace with a careful wrapping of E-tape. The Crayola barrel isn't ideal; but it allows me to make stock darts, since I can very easily lose grey stefans (I'm planning on making my next batch with white electrical tape around them; and phosphorescent paint onthe rear,and shaft of the stefan, to help me find them easier.

I'm using stock darts ( D: ) b/c they're very visible. Once I start mass producing Stefans that I feel comfortable about being able to find; then I'll use them. Ideally, my Stefans would be 2-3 inches, and white, or bright orange, but the FBR around here is all plain gray.

I haven't actually cut the barrel; and will refrain from doing so until I can figure out if I want to do in terms of barrel and ammo (home-made stefans; and then find some Brass that fits the bill; then CPVC and PVC tubing and accessories to increase tightness of fit.

Right now, load speed isn't a massive concern, but being able to load quickly is something that I want to be able to do, which is why switching to say... streamlines with hot glue to seal the front whistl-hole; with a breechloaded front-piece on this BBB is something that I am considering.

Just Some Bob, on Sep 24 2009, 02:40 AM, said:

zach attack, on Sep 23 2009, 06:08 PM, said:

It stands for Rork,Shortshit,Carbon,and 3dbbg, the creators.

rawray7
ShortShit
CynicalSynapses
3DBBQ

Thanks, I read an old post by Pineapple that explained it out clearly.

I wish that I could find the development threads for this idea. I'm trying to build one of my own, but getting full opening ball valves isn't easy; most of them have little 'walls' that would prevent anything non-fluid from passing through the valve.

Sometimes I find that looking at the source of an idea can give a person more ideas. Does anyone here know what sort of thread title I should be looking for in how the RSCB clip was designed? Just looking at RSCB, each of the member's

I decided to say "fuck it" to the Bow Idea; no matter what I can possibly try; it's never going to look like a bow.

It can, however, look like a crossbow. So.. that's what I did.

It's a BBB modified to not only look like a crossbow; but the cosmetic 'strings' (actual cords, not elastic in any way) actually go taut.

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Right now, I'm more focused on accuracy over range. I can hit a 2-3" wide target at 25" which is enough for what I want, for now.

I'm going to be using it this weekend, and will then open it up again and will post internals. Most of the impacted structures of the BBB's internals have been given a reinforcement via Epoxy Putty. I used some Games Workshop "green stuff" early on, and there's a massive difference between the two products.

Some other things that I've done on this gun (that I will need to post internals of) include:

- remove the barrel air restrictors (easy-peasy)
- fit a crayola marker barrel into the orange barrel (took some snipping, sanding and filing)
- take the "circle" Front of Plunger air restrictor and :
--fill in the 3 side 'gaps' with Epoxy Putty
--drill and smooth a hole in the centre of the circle air restrictor

and some other things that I can't recall, I've been doing this mod over the last few weeks.

Wow... that's pretty ingenious. Putting the chamber in the handle. It allows the gun to be all barrel and rscb (what does rscb stand for btw? I've never been able to figure it out). Making for a very compact firearm.