What are paintballs made of???

[Sharla_Bounce]

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[Skeet]

Gelatin shell..Thixotropic Vegetable Dye fill

 

[PimpDaddyZanwaa]

Basically there maed of Fishh guts

hmm nice remember that the next you cop a mouth ful

 

[Liz]

The important thing for your course work is that they are non-toxic and fully biodegradable. Most commonly having a gelatine shell with a vegetable or fish oil based fill with a non-toxic dye, they used to be made by the same people as make human medicines in capsule form (and some still are I think). They have to be made non-toxic, as you're likely to get a mouthful if they hit the face mask ! The only possibly dodgy constituent is the Titanium Dioxide, which can occasionally leave white stains for quite a while.

However I do know of at least one site which is in protected woodland and the relevant authorities have no problems with letting the owner run games there, as he has done for well over 16-18 years now.

 

[Skeet]

Originally posted by Liz
The only possibly dodgy constituent is the Titanium Dioxide, which can occasionally leave white stains for quite a while.

Quite often on your dads shed...

 

[JoseDominguez]

wonder if it's natural gelatin? any vegan players out there?

 

[TOOLE]

Originally posted by JoseDominguez
wonder if it's natural gelatin? any vegan players out there?

It will all be made from cows, so it's not good for vegetarians! Most don't realise that proper vegetarians can't eat haribo or jelly babies or anything like that!

And ZAP is made with chalk sooner than titanium dioxide

 

[mankka]

Originally posted by TOOLE
And ZAP is made with chalk sooner than titanium dioxide

Sounds odd. Only reason to put chalk would be the very cheap price. It does not give much colouring power as titanium dioxide, basicly only makes the paint thicker. Chalk is generally not used as a colouring pigment as far as I know.

 

[joe bob]

well if you let a paint splatter dry for a month or three then al thats left is chalk

 

[mankka]

Originally posted by joe bob
well if you let a paint splatter dry for a month or three then al thats left is chalk

Hummm....no meaning to be rude but can you distinguish between titanium dioxide and chalk with you eyes if it is splattered on wood I'm not saying there isn't chalk but somehow I have the feeling there is at least some titanium dioxide there to go with it (and that feeling is based on what I have in my work in the paints and coatings industry learnt about paint constituents - and no, I can't easily distinguish between those two components if they are splattered on wood etc. and dried up for a while).