What's inside PaintBalls??

[stu64k]

Hi, I've been paintballing for about 6 years now and it suddenly struck me that I don't know what's inside paitballs. Can someone please help me??

[nerdcore]

varies with company & quality. i'm sure there's a base formula for the stuff, though.

here's how draxxus (http://www.draxxus.com/faqs/paintballs.asp?flash=1) makes their paint.

[dubix88]

HEY,
Ummmmmmm , maybe its paint.lol Ya its probably an oil based paint so it doesnt swell the balls or leak trough them. Good luck and happy hunting.

Randy

[Sniper15]

Originally posted by dubix88
HEY,
Ummmmmmm , maybe its paint.lol Ya its probably an oil based paint so it doesnt swell the balls or leak trough them. Good luck and happy hunting.

Randy I don't think it's oil based. I'm not exactly sure what the paint is made of though...

[teufelhunden]

It's water based... crap, I forget what it's real similiar to. I know that the outside is the same as the stuff that they make pills out of... hm. I think there's some cornstarch and food coloring in it too. Well, I'm sure you're resourceful and can find it.

[stealthgerbil]

Tuefelhunden is right. You can acutually eat paintballs, as me and my dog have found out. ( I didn''t mean for him to eat it, I was filling pods and dropped some). Paintballs don't taste that bad, except for BE, because their's are oily omn the outside. Draxxus had decient tasting paint.

[rokobungi]

I thought the paint was propolyne glycol based so the shells wouldn't soften (water would make the shells all mushy!) then a bunch of wax and color

[beaverbuddy]

Paint is made of the stuff in vegetable dye.

[AR55 MtM]

Its type A pig-skin gelatin, high grade food coloring, & thickener type fill. For atleast more highend paintbals.

~Aaron Z.~

[xXniTemAreXx]

Some companies also add wax to thicken the paint.. and staining paint has iodine.

[AR55 MtM]

Originally posted by xXniTemAreXx
Some companies also add wax to thicken the paint.. and staining paint has iodine.
I highly doubt that any paintball has iodine to it, because of all the lawsuits that could happen.

[HurleyHero67]

Originally posted by rokobungi
I thought the paint was propolyne glycol based so the shells wouldn't soften (water would make the shells all mushy!) then a bunch of wax and color
Not all paint, I was shooting some zap in the rain the other day and it was softening up.

OT: Ar55, since when you do type in colors? Or am I really ignant :eyes:

[AR55 MtM]

Originally posted by HurleyHero67

OT: Ar55, since when you do type in colors? Or am I really ignant :eyes:


Im starting a new thing anything that I have smart to say (excluding in making stickies) I will write them in color & and thing sloppy or stupid I will post in black. ;)