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I finally got some decent epoxy, so I've been designing some pretty cool small projects to use it with. while I was designing away, I though of an extremely easy way to build a small piston hybrid. The only "special part" is the 60cc syringe I got from my biology class. The actual syringe head is used as the air tight pop-off piston. In the spirit of simplicity, I think I can get away with a simple pop-off piston without a proper pilot valve such as a spool valve or a pop-off valve.



I hope all the parts are clear, the whole thing is encased in a 1" copper tube

Looks like it should work. An it could go full auto(with air). Looks a lot like jsrs rattlesnake valves. And they worked great.

A little edit to the design, the back's gonna be serviceable so I can add a pop-off if needed

How big is it? The barrel looks like bb caliber.

interchangeable, but probably 3/8" porting, so a BB barrel would probably choke flow. I have to build the thing before I get ahead of myself and start changing things

Looks good, however 3 crucial points:

- the syringe body will not survive a hybrid mix, it needs to be sleeved in a stronger material

- the piston seat needs a larger wall thickness so as not to cut into the rubber seal over time

- yay epoxy!

-The syringe is sleeved in 1" copper with ¡EPOXY! sealing the gap.

-The piston seat will be a 3/8" nipple, Its not as thin as portrayed in the diagram.

-indeed...

Right, hadn't noticed the copper footnote. Carry on.

Right, well good thinking then! If you can make something that performs well at a low cost, then thats the elusive magic trick that seems to be within your grasp.

Moonbogg wrote:If you can make something that performs well at a low cost, then thats the elusive magic trick that seems to be within your grasp.

It's not much more complex than my mini hybrids, I'm confident it can be made to work well with relative ease. Might be tempted to try something similar actually, burst disks are a bit of a pain!

I'll pour the epoxy later tonight, I just hope I still have that 1" copper tubing. So do y'all think I need a pop-off or spool valve behind the piston? And JSR, do you have any of your old HPA pop-off projects left? They could easily be converted to a low mix version

You shouldn't. There will be a bunch more surface area exposed once it does pop. If the barrel chokes flow, pressure will build quite a lot in front of the piston. If the port of the piston valve chokes the flow (rather than something downstream of it) you may have issues, or just poor performance.

oooh oooh suggestion!

The rear cast epoxy parts need to be thicker than the diagram suggests.

Also I don't think you need to have the seat protruding so far into the valve. You can cut a little dead space and overall length here.

The distance the seat goes into the syring is to make sure the street elbow doesn't get in the way of the piston

@ JSR-
That is a much better setup, but I doubt I have that much skillz when it comes to complicated epoxy casting