Hypothesis on Emancipator frame implementation

[Shirow]

The cleanest way you're going to be able to continue flatline usage for the pneumag app is like the original, with the LPR concealed in the fore grip running a line through the rail into the frame...

its unfortunate, yes...

The only other way you could do it, MAYBE, I think would be a modified Benchmark style Flatline mount, but you'd have to figure out how to cut an internal channel, which would have to be gasketed, to route the flow up into the grip frame... this piece would be really complicated, plus would need a dovetail somewhere in the mix (unless you made a new one from scratch?) to attach it.

going through the warp bracket... woof its just adding that many more potential leak locations to the mix...

OR... cut the warp mount so that it could be slid out from in between the frame and ASA/whatever... and then connect the ASA/whatever to the frame with a short length of hardline, that also has a space cut out for it through the warp-mount?

Sorry for the stream of thought post... I haven't been excited about anything paintball to design parts in my head in quite a while.

Yeah, I have thought of these... the big downside I think in trying to tap air through the bracket is exactly what you brought up - a screw loosens a bit on the field and you have 900+ psi leaking out the bottom of your grip.

[MANN]

Isn't the Tippman one a screw in ASA though? It's hard to tell from those pictures.

yep

[Shirow]

Well, in a best case hypothetical situation I'd think the perfect solution would be a grip mounted dovetail rail that has a warp bracket built into it.. imagine Luke's warpfeed-rear bracket (http://www.lukescustoms.com/page0005.htm) but instead of attaching to the bottom of the frame, it's part of the rail.. then a hole tapped in the side of the rail for a 90* fitting and an air channel thru the rail to the bottom of the gripframe.

So Luke.. wanna make one? :)

Actually, in thinking about this more, this could work well.. if you wanted to use a screw in, you just mount any screw in ASA to the dovetail mount, run macroline from the screw in to the rail and you acheive the same output. That way you can use a screw in or dovetail mounted tank with the same rail, and if the warp bracket is part of the rail, there's nothing else for the air to go through. So you'd just need some kind of gasket between the rail and the bottom of the grip, an o-ring could work.