Hi Everyone,
Im not a paintballer, but I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction with some advice about paintball co2 systems.
As a hobby for a while, ive made pneumatic guns, canons etc (I built an air gun that fires tennis balls, the chronograph clocked them at 812mph (over mach1) however there has been some arguments over weather this is possible), and I have been building a fun air gun that shoots those rugby ball shaped nerf darts that you can get in toy shops. All my previous guns have run off a mains powered air compressor, this works well but obviously you need to be plugged into the mains. I was hoping to set up a system where I could power the nerf gun from a paintball bottle. I have done some maths and worked out that the volume of air in a paintball cylinder is enough to fire the nerf gun 40 times, which is fine by me, but there is one issue which is the pressure.
The nerf gun needs to fire at about 40psi. The only regulators I can find that fit on standard paintball bottles are 850psi, and I found one that is 450. This would blow the nerfgun to peices, so I need to find a way to get the pressure down a bit.
I was hoping that maybe there is a regulator that can do this, but I understand that paintball guns operate at a much higher pressure than 40psi. Maybe there is some kind of paintball accessory that runs off the same cylinders that uses a lower pressure or something?
Anyway, all I need in the end is a portable way of putting 40psi of air or co2 or whatever into the nerf gun. Im pretty good with pneumatics in general, so im not too fussed over hoses or threads, I just need a cylinder and a regulator of some kind that will give me a regulated output up to about 10 bar, and I can then further regulate the pressure down if needed.
Thanks for any help,
Pete.
Im not a paintballer, but I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction with some advice about paintball co2 systems.
As a hobby for a while, ive made pneumatic guns, canons etc (I built an air gun that fires tennis balls, the chronograph clocked them at 812mph (over mach1) however there has been some arguments over weather this is possible), and I have been building a fun air gun that shoots those rugby ball shaped nerf darts that you can get in toy shops. All my previous guns have run off a mains powered air compressor, this works well but obviously you need to be plugged into the mains. I was hoping to set up a system where I could power the nerf gun from a paintball bottle. I have done some maths and worked out that the volume of air in a paintball cylinder is enough to fire the nerf gun 40 times, which is fine by me, but there is one issue which is the pressure.
The nerf gun needs to fire at about 40psi. The only regulators I can find that fit on standard paintball bottles are 850psi, and I found one that is 450. This would blow the nerfgun to peices, so I need to find a way to get the pressure down a bit.
I was hoping that maybe there is a regulator that can do this, but I understand that paintball guns operate at a much higher pressure than 40psi. Maybe there is some kind of paintball accessory that runs off the same cylinders that uses a lower pressure or something?
Anyway, all I need in the end is a portable way of putting 40psi of air or co2 or whatever into the nerf gun. Im pretty good with pneumatics in general, so im not too fussed over hoses or threads, I just need a cylinder and a regulator of some kind that will give me a regulated output up to about 10 bar, and I can then further regulate the pressure down if needed.
Thanks for any help,
Pete.