I'm talking your style here, combining objects and epoxy.

hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
Of course the fact that you're using the air to cycle the mechanism means it's not as efficient as it could be, but I think we've established the importance of the "brass spewing" feature to yours truly by nowFnord wrote:Of course, if you're just looking to spew brass on the floor, then by all means carry on.
That's the idea, I'm going to graft a spring loaded bolt to this breech and see if it can handle cycling the action and move on from there.If this works...are you gonna finally make a complete gun for it?
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
This is just a proof of concept prototype, for an actual finished launcher I'll go for something neater. This is only to see if the idea can be made to work.saefroch wrote:Instead of that mess of wires and springs, why not house the bolt in a half-pipe of sorts, with a compression spring, instead of an extension spring (which introduces the possibility of breaking both the springs and wire restraint all in one go)?
The cartridges are really the simplest thing to make, it's just a section of tube, sealed with araldite at one end and with a section of silicon tube epoxied in on the other, and four ports drilled through it.Once you're pretty satisfied with a cartridge design, you could order a bunch of them (or at least everything but the seal) from a machine shop.
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
ohh you see ? other people have suggested the same thingwhy not house the bolt in a half-pipe of sorts