What is the hole in the tab towards the back for?
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It's for mounting. Luke made his cheatah specifically to fit and mount in his frames. The tab can still be used for other frames but a bracket has to be made.
Couldn't you use slightly longer grip screws to hold the valve in?
Probably, but I wanted to avoid having to fiddle with custom ground screws. I considered set screws, but they were actually a bad fit with the current design of grip panels, plus thin walls on the frame and valve made that a bad idea. It didn't sense to redesign the panels or valve to solve that problem. A mounting tab solves those issues and mounts the valve in the exact place it needs to be. No adjusting or fiddling or concern, just screw it down and your done.
One screw to hold the mount tab in and one screw to hold the valve.
An intergraded mounting tab into the design of the frame will make the mount 70% smaller and tucked back and out of the way.
The cut cutout around the set screw (RHS) is a grip screw relief so you don't have to have a special length screw.
Last edited by luke; 03-11-2015 at 08:13 PM.
Very nice.
It will be perfect in my armada !
do you have a rough estimate as to what you'd charge for milling an Intelli in order to make this fit?
I am quite sure i'll be getting at least two of these by now...
Well that's good news, cant wait to see this in action!
Quick question, likely a stupid one... The ram doesn't "toggle" does it? Still stays out until the trigger is released, like standard pneu-setups?
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Not sure what you mean by toggle, but the ram is returned by the sear.
It appears that there is nothing holding the ram into place. Is it safe to assume that if you pull the trigger with out the sear in place that the ram will be blown out the back?
The oring and the system as a whole contains the ram and trigger rod. Yes, the ram will pop out the body if it's not installed in the marker and you trigger the valve, but it actually doesn't get blown/blasted out the back, lol.
I've thought about a spring return which would contain and return the ram, just waiting to do more testing. So far it's been working great but I haven't had enough air to hammer on it yet.
My compressor is in route.
If the design doesn't pan out I'll toss it, but the testing up to this point has been promising...
I understand that. My question was regarding what was always my problem with pneu-frames... Being that the ram stayed in the "fire" position as long as the trigger was held down and this often led to short-stoking. I always thought it'd be nice to have a ram that acted a lot more like a solenoid. One that was actuated and returned (by the sear) before the trigger is released.
This design still needs some rigorous testing, I'm not sure the concerns of previous builds will be relevant to this design or not, the flaws and or performance remain to be seen at this point.
I'd be interested if it fits your single trigger frame. You probly answered already but I didn't look.