Boltless paintball gun idea

[Nenkitsune]

ok, so in my random thoughts, i was thinking of a way to make a single tube blowback design that would move the bolt/striker, backwards instead of forwards. after a while i figured a way to make it for the most part, boltless, and here's a gif!

[claustrophobia9]

the cycle and hole will need to be larger than a paintball to avoid chopping.

[Nenkitsune]

i forgot to mention that it's not to scale, so the actual thing (if it were to be made) would have a lot of diffrences. that little animation just shows teh basic design and function lol

[thechubbss12]

Thats pretty sick idea....

Instead of using springs to push the hammer thing back a foward.. i think a Noid would give you a better performance...

[Nenkitsune]

yeah, your probably right about it. but i wanted to do was basically have an extremly high flow blowback design, but with only 1 peice for the bolt assembly. i ended up revising it till i got that design. it would be extremly high flow, since the blowback air would also be the air to propel the ball. the holes would be staggerd so when the hammer gets closer to the ram, more pressure is applied to the hammers face. originally it was going to be a bolt that the ball enters, then moves back, but i ran into problems when i was thinking about the ball moving backwards. a noid would be interesting though. it would be a 2way noid though, since the space is limited. the innersleeve would be the inside wall of the ram sleeve, and the body would be the outer wall. the "bolt" would end up being the ram. i could actually make it a fasor in that case, with a spring attached to the front of the inner sleeve, and the "bolt"

[Farva]

theres actually a gun made a few years back that had a similar design. it had no bolt i think it was called the epic

[Farva]

http://www.onlyepic.talkspot.com/asp...px?msgid=81408

Thats the link to a vid of it its kinda kool

[Nenkitsune]

yeah, i remember looking at the epic before and figuring out how they work. i wasn't thinking of it though when i designed my idea lol in a way my idea could be a simpler versino of an epic haha

[claustrophobia9]

epic is fairly similar but they lowered reciprocating mass by removing the entirty of the moving section and making it just a door instead. this lowers kick and raises speed, making it a good option.

[Nenkitsune]

so in a way the design i came up with is a good design? i came up with it because i wanted to try and make something with an airflow of practically a straight line lol i think by making it a fasor type design it would work better.
i thought of another way of increasing it's power. by making the hole that powers teh ball, a velocity stack of sorts. in cars, a velocity stack takes the incoming air and compresses it, increasing it's speed. i think if i made it into a type of velocity stack it would help