Web App for Printing Oring Size Charts

[Squirrelmageddon]

Would a website for printing your gun's orings in a chart along with an actual 1:1 drawing of the oring inner and outer diameter circles be of any benefit to you guys? It would look something like this:

FX Impact M3 Orings​

Part #​	Description​	Inner Diameter​	Thickness​	1:1 Drawing​
BR549	Barrel	15mm	1.5mm

When I have a pack of 58 orings and many look alike, it is sometimes hard to find the right oring unless you remove the old one and use it as an overlay to find the right one. If you had a PDF printout of all your gun's orings, you could just bust out the chart and overlay it on the printout to find the right one. Of course a parts explosion image would be at the top of the chart so that you can find the right one.

If I get enough interest, I would build the site. I would have to rely on users to input the data for each gun to be shared with other users. All I need is the Part#, ID, and thickness to build the PDF charts. The 1:1 drawing of the oring would be created on the fly. I dunno. Maybe it's a waste of time. Any thoughts?

PS: I just had a thought. If you are looking at a page that displayed all of your orings and clicked a button to show a visual drawing of the oring at 1:1 scale, you could just plop the oring down right on your screen to verify that you have the right one.

 

[QuarterPint]

Good idea. Just a thought, back in a former lifetime I made printable forms for customers to lay onto table tops to measure radius corners outlet holes and other cutouts for my company to produce glass covers. Long story short people have a hard time ensuring that the scale on the printer settings was not set to “Fit” which throws off your 1:1 image. I always included a LARGE note on the images/printouts along with a 1” long control image, verify image scale before use.

As to your post script, depending on what screen resolution a user is utilizing the image you have produced as 1:1 may not render as such on the screen. And if I have problems seeing a .177 caliber breech seal I may zoom in to get a better view…

 

[Ranchibi]

Fantastic idea! I think most air gunners would appreciate that for all PCP manufacturers models!

 

[marflow 777]

the chase for Orings has been an on going quest for most of us and sometimes it is easy and sometimes it is not
if you go to the trouble add material and dura
the amount of time it would take is astronomical to collect even a small number of guns
but as you and i know we get tired of spending 5 bucks for a .05 Oring and you can buy a bag of 50 at the same price
yes, it would be great but at the same time you would be nuts to try it
it would be never ending

 

[bigHUN]

To OP, the idea is good, but visually comparing orings sizes to a printout is far from precise, and I would call the attention for human errors.
Serious airgunners download the original BOM (bill of material) from the Brand websites and order from well known suppliers (like oringsandmore) in packs of 10 or 25.
I made my own spreadsheet a while back and continuously updating, and I just counted for you 77 size orings for 4 of my airguns and scba tanks.
Some of these oring sizes I have in two Dura hardness, and some of them cross platform compatible between two wessels . Whenever I take one oring out I replace with brand new immediately.
Me personally at this current moment have over 1500 pieces of orings in my box, a bigger ziploc for each airgun, and each smaller bag (size) is marked as a BOM number for that specific airgun.
Overlaying on a print .... ah no, that would not work for me

 

[Squirrelmageddon]

Good idea. Just a thought, back in a former lifetime I made printable forms for customers to lay onto table tops to measure radius corners outlet holes and other cutouts for my company to produce glass covers. Long story short people have a hard time ensuring that the scale on the printer settings was not set to “Fit” which throws off your 1:1 image. I always included a LARGE note on the images/printouts along with a 1” long control image, verify image scale before use.

As to your post script, depending on what screen resolution a user is utilizing the image you have produced as 1:1 may not render as such on the screen. And if I have problems seeing a .177 caliber breech seal I may zoom in to get a better view…

I would need to make the table width exactly 7.5" so that the user could measure it to confirm it was printed at 1:1.

As far as showing the image on a device such as a phone, I'm not sure it's a good idea browsers are offering different methods of retrieving screen DPI and some are flat out broken. I dived into this years ago on a web development and hit a brick wall. As of 2023 it's really no better.

the chase for Orings has been an on going quest for most of us and sometimes it is easy and sometimes it is not
if you go to the trouble add material and dura
the amount of time it would take is astronomical to collect even a small number of guns
but as you and i know we get tired of spending 5 bucks for a .05 Oring and you can buy a bag of 50 at the same price
yes, it would be great but at the same time you would be nuts to try it
it would be never ending

I was going to build a phone app just for my own use, however, I put some thought into it and was pondering a web app where other users could enter data for their guns which would be sharable with other users.

"Many hands make light work".

To OP, the idea is good, but visually comparing orings sizes to a printout is far from precise, and I would call the attention for human errors.
Serious airgunners download the original BOM (bill of material) from the Brand websites and order from well known suppliers (like oringsandmore) in packs of 10 or 25.
I made my own spreadsheet a while back and continuously updating, and I just counted for you 77 size orings for 4 of my airguns and scba tanks.
Some of these oring sizes I have in two Dura hardness, and some of them cross platform compatible between two wessels . Whenever I take one oring out I replace with brand new immediately.
Me personally at this current moment have over 1500 pieces of orings in my box, a bigger ziploc for each airgun, and each smaller bag (size) is marked as a BOM number for that specific airgun.
Overlaying on a print .... ah no, that would not work for me

A system like yours would be best. The problem I have is I receive a reseal kit with all the orings tossed into 1 small baggy. For other users buying orings the same way, a system to identify and separate those baggy cluster f$%#'s would save a lot of time. I bought two hobby beads boxes to organize my orings but haven't mustered up the motivation to bust out the ole caliper, measure each one, find it;'s part # on a manufacturer's parts chart, and put it in the right slot. IF the manufacturer's part chart had that oring drawing in the chart, it would be much easier to organize those bags.

I probably need to just order orings like you do. It would be much easier to organize and retrieve the right oring. Plus, these reseal kits are expensive.

 

[bigHUN]

The best would be
- printing out a BOM for each airgun, or make a spreadsheet;
- ordering a full oring kit from the BOM for each airgun, the bags will arrive labelled with a sticker indicating the sizes, you just need to write down on that label what was that BOM#;
- buy a digital caliper at least
This is a one time job, the initial time is the longest to organize and just keep maintaining.
Otherwise I don't mind you do whatever you want, put you effort creating that app but that is just throwing a Tylenol on a pain

 

[Squirrelmageddon]

OK, you've enlightened me. Now, I'm thinking of something else which may help guys like me upgrade to a better system like yours. What if the web app would display a oring chart like this:

FX Impact M3 Orings

Part #	Description	Inner Diameter	Thickness
BR549	Some oring somewhere	12.5mm	1mm

The

button would navigate to the oringsandmore page for that oring. The URL for that oring would not need to be entered by the user. The user just needs to enter the Part #, ID, and CS. When the record is saved the server can generate the URL. For example:

User enters a new Buna 70 12.5mm x 1.8mm and clicks save. The orings and more page syntax is pretty simple. The actual page is:

https://www.oringsandmore.com/metric-buna-o-rings-12-5-x-1-8mm-minimum-25-pcs/

1) The "https://www.oringsandmore.com/metric-buna-o-rings-" is easy enough.
2) Append the ID with a dash replacing the decimal
3) Append "-x-"
4) Append the CS with a dash replacing the decimal

Now the tricky part. We don't know what the rest is. It could be: minimum-25-pcs, minimum-50-pcs, minimum-100-pcs. The server can use a HTTP client utility to send a request to:

https://www.oringsandmore.com/metric-buna-o-rings-12-5-x-1-8mm-minimum-25-pcs/

https://www.oringsandmore.com/metric-buna-o-rings-12-5-x-1-8mm-minimum-50-pcs/

https://www.oringsandmore.com/metric-buna-o-rings-12-5-x-1-8mm-minimum-100-pcs/

Whichever request returns a status 200 (OK) and not a 404 (page not found), is the correct URL for that oring. It would definitely help with ordering and getting all the right ones. Whatcha think?

 

[QuarterPint]

As far as showing the image on a device such as a phone, I'm not sure it's a good idea browsers are offering different methods of retrieving screen DPI and some are flat out broken. I dived into this years ago on a web development and hit a brick wall. As of 2023 it's really no better.

My point exactly! Sorry if I my original post was not clear.