Do it yourself upgrades

[Coenen]

All-

I know that there is an upgrade thread but I thought that one for upgrades that can be performed w/out buying new equipment for your weapon might be worthwhile.:)

Thanx for suggestions,

Coenen

[Assassin]

www.m98center.com

[Cube242]

Warning: This is completely impractical.

Things you need to buy [NOT p-ball equipment]:
----1"-1" female-female PVC coupling
----3/4"-1" Female-male coupling
----Very short section of 3/4" PVC pipe
----Tornado Tube connector
----PVC cement, model glue, or something of the sort

Directions:
----You'll need to glue all of this somehow. I used PVC cement.
----Get a 1" coupling. Take a [3/4" female-1"male] coupling and fit it inside the 1" coup.
----get a tornado tube thingy--remember when you were a kid, in fourth grade, or something--they had this contraption--it was 2 two-litres attached together by the rims, so that when you shook them it made a whirlpool. Take that, make sure there is room enough for a pball to fit through AT LEAST. If there isn't, make enough room. cut it in half, so you only have one of the threaded sides.
----Put the half of a tor.tube adapter inside the other side of the 1" coupling.
----Place 3/4" PVC inside the bottom of the couplings, to fit inside the 'gun.
----preforate the top of the 2 litre bottle [if it is upside down] so air can get into the bottles as paint is shot.

:eyes: See warning above.

Go ahead and use the 1-litre bottles as tubes, too... just tape the holes w/masking tape and peel the tape before you shoot.

Yes, I know what you may be thinking: It's not that practical. It's great fun to have, though, as well as it was fun to build and test. Imagine this: Flatline, a bipod, a 2-litre bottle filled w/pballs. have someone sit next to you and make sure the gun doesn't tip with the weight of the paint, and you have the closest thing to a Browning M1919 possible.

I'm pro'lly leaving something out. Ah, well. I made this up from scratch, guys. If there's something you don't understand, yet you have the urge to make the hopper, improvise. I improvised the entire thing.

[GreenPic]

how much paint does it hold? :eyes:

[Cube242]

[I have] No idea how much paint it'll hold. Matters what size bottle you use. You just gotta try it, though. It cost me ~ $2.50 to make, and about 20 minutes [after I had the parts]...

To tell you the truth, designing and creating it was more fun than using it. Now I'm trying to think up a good way to mod the stock barrel to be somewhat silenced.