nonamekevin
08-02-2008, 11:20 PM
First the the piranha. I used to work at a paintball field for 9 years. On the fields 20th anniversary, one of the customers whom I had known for a few years presented me with this. It was an old rental piranha turned pump. I was playing at that time with a phantom or an AM Illusion Pro (wish I never sold that one). This guy does machine work on the side. He machined the sides of the phantom to give it a slightly slimmer profile, machined the custom barrel from the stock one, and came up with the entire way of making the pump work. This was back in April of 06'.
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/1561/pump002akh8.jpg
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/2306/pump010azt1.jpg
Next is the spyder. Still loving pump play, I knew I wanted a spyder, because of how light and simple they are. And reliable. I had my same machinist friend do the work. Started with an old victor body (previous rental gun). I came up with all the original ideas on how I wanted it to look, I left it up to my friend to make it work. After bouncing ideas off each other, the end result is what we came up with. Again, the body was cleaned up to look less spyder'ish. The original bolt was tossed, and a custom one was machined which is half delrin. Pump handle was machined out of one big piece of delrin. The trigger frame was from an old original tl. I can't stand double triggers, so tracking down a .45 frame that wasn't plastic was tough. I believe I bought the entire tl from someone here.
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/842/assorted0608028alv4.jpg
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1308/assorted0608031ajj7.jpg
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1252/assorted0608029aor7.jpg
I can provide more pics if needed. I would like to work on making that piranha sc, but time and interest are the biggest problems for me. Working at a paintball field killed my drive to play. But, with more and more people talking about making spyder pumps, I thought I would add mine. Had the piranha since 06', and the spyder since late 07'. I enjoy the piranha for its uniqueness, and the spyder is cool because my friend really improved his machining skills for that one.
-Kevin
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/1561/pump002akh8.jpg
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/2306/pump010azt1.jpg
Next is the spyder. Still loving pump play, I knew I wanted a spyder, because of how light and simple they are. And reliable. I had my same machinist friend do the work. Started with an old victor body (previous rental gun). I came up with all the original ideas on how I wanted it to look, I left it up to my friend to make it work. After bouncing ideas off each other, the end result is what we came up with. Again, the body was cleaned up to look less spyder'ish. The original bolt was tossed, and a custom one was machined which is half delrin. Pump handle was machined out of one big piece of delrin. The trigger frame was from an old original tl. I can't stand double triggers, so tracking down a .45 frame that wasn't plastic was tough. I believe I bought the entire tl from someone here.
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/842/assorted0608028alv4.jpg
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1308/assorted0608031ajj7.jpg
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1252/assorted0608029aor7.jpg
I can provide more pics if needed. I would like to work on making that piranha sc, but time and interest are the biggest problems for me. Working at a paintball field killed my drive to play. But, with more and more people talking about making spyder pumps, I thought I would add mine. Had the piranha since 06', and the spyder since late 07'. I enjoy the piranha for its uniqueness, and the spyder is cool because my friend really improved his machining skills for that one.
-Kevin