EBolted A-5 (yeah, you read that right).

[Gatorade]

Here is my long-running project, a Morlocked, EBolted Tippmann A-5:
Outside pics:


Some internals shots:




Her main ram is an SMC with QEVs, cyclone ram is a STO with TRVs, and the solenoid is a Humphrey (same one used in Alias Timmies). The hammer is (pretty obviously) home made - it's a bolt with a delrin sleeve. The regs are PPS: a Female Stabilizer and a Micro Rock. The valve and volumizer are from the GTA A-5 Low-Pressure Kit.

Hope you like them!

[Nowhere]

WOW!!

[Ety]

Very cool, how long have you been working on that? Is there anyway to clean up the microline?

[Gatorade]

She's been in pieces for about a year. I haven't really been "working" on her all that time, but the project has taken at least 10 months (longer, I think). The microline is cleaned up though - you should've seen it before! If it becomes a problem, I can tape it down to the body, but it really doesn't stick out far from the body.

[99GenX]

This post is useless without a vid Gatorade!

Great work

[Gatorade]

I have a vid, but it's really crappy, and I'm currently out of air. I should be able to get a live fire vid up this weekend.

[Snake]

Pardon my ignorance, but what is an E- Bolt? I assume its something standard on most electros? Karma for anyone who answers back!

-Snake-

[Gatorade]

E-Bolt means it's no longer a blowback operation. The valve is actuated by a hammer on the end of a 2-way air ram. So basically, the solenoid valve is normally sending air to the front of the ram, holding it in the back position. When I pull the trigger, the solenoid switches to sending air to the back of the ram, pushing it forward and opening the valve.
The advantage of this is (a) I'm no longer wasting air on blowback and (b) it has almost no kick, since the hammer is now about 50 grams, instead of 250 or so. It also allows me to more precisely control all aspects of the firing cycle.
This is how most electros operate (Timmy, Angel, Bushmaster, Impulse, Viking, etc., but not spool valves like Shockers, Ions, or Matrices)

[Stoli]

Wow! Very impressive! ;D

[Gatorade]

Video! Click here to watch Ebolt-A-5 It's on autoresponse mode, so my slow fingers don't make the gun look slow.

I had a chop early on - I was using paint that's been sitting in the corner of my room for almost a year, so what can I expect? I had the board set for 17 bps in that vid - the cyclone did fine at that speed, but couldn't feed fast enough when it was set at 20 (the cyclone was spinning and it would shoot in bursts, but when firing long strings, it would just spin and no paint would drop in because it was spinning too fast). I'll have to do some more testing to find out exactly how fast it'll reliably feed, but for now I can leave it set at 17.

[tag]

SICK WICKED !!!!



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