Home grown moderator

[MrP]

I posted a similar post at GTA...

Noisy air gun + lots of spare time + lots of bamboo = Gilligans island time. Made a bamboo moderator out of a couple of canes i cut. I doubt it will meet the standards of a professionally made moderator but it solved my problem of cringing every time I fire off the gun at higher power. 

Used two canes, one thick one thin. I cut slots in the thin one, wrapped it with felt and stuffed it into the bigger one. Held onto my TalonP with split bamboo splints, hose clamp and zip ties. Doesn’t get simpler than that!

 

[Yo]

VERY INGENIOUS! BEWARE ANT BAIT...HOW ABOUT A COCONUT NEXT? HOWS ABOUT A HAND MADE BICYCLE TO PUMP UP THAT PCP? Yo!

 

[qball]

Impressive!!!

 

[MrP]

Ant bait? Do you mean the bamboo will attract ants?

I am a middle school science teacher so my whole life is all about trying to make interesting things out of limited supplies. You know... race cars powered by mousetraps, rockets made out of straws, balances made out of coat hangers. Silencers made out of bamboo was just the next step.

But where to go now? I don’t have any coconut trees, yo! So I am stuck with bamboo. And moss. %#*-ton of bamboo and moss here in Oregon. What can I make out of that? More moderators I guess. Now to try a larger volume - this doesn’t do enough for level 13 on the TalonP. 


I should set up a little farm stand. Home grown sustainable silencers. Take one, leave some money kind of thing.

 

[bubblerboy64]

That looks like one of my projects. Others can decide if that’s a compliment or a criticism

 

[MrP]

I’m ready to take the airgun moderator market by storm. Airgun world, here I come!



all joking aside, I love tinkering like this and wish I had the equipment and skills to do it right. Pretty fun experimenting for me. I plan to build a few different designs - change the length, diameter, see what works best. Obviously it takes about 10 minutes to make and I have hundreds of bamboo canes in the yard to choose from.

 

[Yo]

You most definitely got a market for bamboo items for sure. More than enough HIPPIES out and about. Yo!

 

[MrP]

Well I suppose I could make bamboo bongs. Open a stall at the farmers’ market. Homegrown silencers and bongs... good family fun. 


sorry if that offended. Not making bongs.


And I am not fooling myself that this is a good suppressor. It works ok to cut moderate noise when the gun is restricted with a moderate top hat valve cap or low power wheel settings. I was chronographing, and in the 12-26 fpe shots it muted things quite well. Pellets moving at 415 - 690 FPS if I recall. At 43 fpe and pellets moving over 800 FPS, it was not really effective at all - as a faint ringing in my ears keeps reminding me


so while I will some day get a real suppressor, in the meanwhile I may make another. I have more felt and bamboo... will try a tube with a greater volume.

 

[MikeVV]

Give a volume changing version a try.

The "can" on my Ataman BP17 is just a hollow can. Not very sound deadening. 

I bought three spur gears and some small all-thread from a radio control shop (mostly cars). I made a three legged, sliding gear, three chamber silencer. One gear is not movable, the other two gears are, ball point spring loaded against each other. I did make the spring load adjustable, but the first try worked so well, that I'm afraid to mess with it..!

While I don't have any "accurate" way of measuring the sound level, it was VERY noticeable the difference in perceived sound. I tried three other versions of "packed", like a car muffler. Virtually no deadening at all. Then I thought of the moving chamber designed.

Kinda fun messing around like that. Mine cost more than yours, but it was just as much fun doing it.

Mike

 

[Yo]

Most simple minded AIRGUNNERS are cheap and just borrow their wife's hair curller and wrap it with scotch brite and felt maybe oiling the felt and scotch brite dampens the sound even further. That last chamber would benefit by being the largest in volume with the oiled felt and scotch brite wrapped hair curler FYI... Yo!

 

[Matt247365]

Gilligans Island LOL That's awesome I love it.

Nice job, MrP!

Even comes with built-in camo



Next up: Daystate Heliboard

 

[SilentSquirrel]

Ant bait? Do you mean the bamboo will attract ants?

I am a middle school science teacher so my whole life is all about trying to make interesting things out of limited supplies. You know... race cars powered by mousetraps, rockets made out of straws, balances made out of coat hangers. Silencers made out of bamboo was just the next step.

But where to go now? I don’t have any coconut trees, yo! So I am stuck with bamboo. And moss. %#*-ton of bamboo and moss here in Oregon. What can I make out of that? More moderators I guess. Now to try a larger volume - this doesn’t do enough for level 13 on the TalonP. 


I should set up a little farm stand. Home grown sustainable silencers. Take one, leave some money kind of thing.



You must use bamboo grown (and labeled as such) for airgun use only

Or you'll get busted by Alphabet org

 

[igolfat8]

I would buy one ONLY if it was organically grown!

 

[MrP]

Sorry. Not certified organic, just ecologically wild-crafted.

 

[qball]

Certified organic, free range, non-GMO, vegetarian, vegan and gluten free. No animals must be harmed during the making of the silencer, although people harmed is ok. Oh, don’t forget certified sustainable and carbon neutral. 

 

[MrP]

I like gluten 

 

[sillymike]

Looks like a fun project... Unfortunately in my neck of the wood, this would land me in jail... Go figure!

 

[Mr.H]

Maybe you could come up with two different models....... Ginger and MaryAnn

 

[MrP]

that’s a great idea. Let me run with this...


Large volume: the skipper

skinny version: the gilligan

beautufully finished: the Ginger

super expensive? The Mr. Howle

with plaid and denim hydrodip: The Maryanne

Precision engineered: The Professor


Does that cover it?

 

[Mr.H]

I think I kinda dig plaid