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    I have a NEW idea for a valve

    Thanks for bringing this up. I tried to illustrate one in my description, but your picture is better than the one I had. The balanced valve that you showed is very similar to the one that was in my Tippman 98 paintball gun. The ones I've seen always have a larger diameter at A1 than A3, so...
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    I have a NEW idea for a valve

    Thanks. I'll look him up, and see if he's willing to look at my idea.
  3. J

    I have a NEW idea for a valve

    I agree you can't put a price on safety. I'm new to trying to build an air gun, and I'm not familiar with discovery tube. I tried to find it online but I kept pulling up youtube channels. could you give me a url? Also, thanks for suggesting that I look at drawings of the sports match GC2...
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    I have a NEW idea for a valve

    Thanks for the response, you are exactly the type of person I was hoping would comment. You are correct, once the valve is open it won't shut until the pressure is almost zero. I can think of two set ups that might work well with this. The first is a single shot where all the pressure is...
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    I have a NEW idea for a valve

    As a hobby, I've been working on valve designs for airguns, and I wanted to get some feedback on it. My idea is very similar to a striker activated blow open valve (a rough drawing of a blow open striker valve that I found online can be seen here.) [S] The striker is the C-shaped component...
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    Welcome to AIRGUN NATION - please introduce yourself here!

    I started shooting airguns when I was 9, and put a few thousand rounds through a few bb and pellet guns. While shooting them was fun, what I really like doing was taking them apart and praying that I could put them back together. When I was 17 I started shooting paintball guns, and did that...