paintball gatlin gun .....NEED HELP!

[ramenjames]

ok well i have and idea as to how it would work
but my question is how would i get the barrels ( 3 of em)
to spin in perfect time with the bolt movment



ok thats kinda confusing

what im trying to say is what would i use to get the gun to shoot at the same time the barrel is in line (with the bolt)and what should i use to cock the bolt and spin the barrels???



*is clueless*


well any help would be very appreciated and welcome

[Big'n slo]

Just to get this straight, your thinking of using one bolt with multiple barrels? What type of bolt/valve are you planning on using?
You'll also have to consider loading paint..

[Commissar_Loki]

well, The best way would be rig it so that by pulling the trigger you don't fire the actual gun, rather spin the barrel, set a wheel with little sears, and use the rotation of the barrels to set the gun off thus it couldnt mess up. as for finding out the timing, I'd say trial and error, also would be easier if you cut down the body so that the ball doesnt slow down for a couple inches then go into the rotationg barrel. Try and think of what WWI pilots had done, they had their maching guns timed so that when the props were in the way, the gun wouldnt fire until the props wer out of the way again. just my 2 cents, good luck.

[Slimm Jimm]

They used a cam system.

don't use a bolt and just use a valve so that you have one less moving part, and then load the paint into whichever barrel is not being shot.

just an idea

[Target Practice]

I just have one question...why? First off, would you really want to lug that biotch into battle everytime? What about shootdown due to recharge time? How are you going to attach the barrels? And if it is for a vehicle, i think i have a better idea.

What you could do, on a vehicle, is to build a mount to carry two guns. To attach the guns to the mount you can have a thin metal piece come up from the mount, and you could fasten it to the grip with the screws that are already in the grip (i.e. Model 98). Also, the air system would be easier to figure out (two words...remote hose). You can either pull each trigger yourself, or you could rig up a mechanism. Either way, it is a hell of a lot eaisier than a rotating barrel configuration.

I do, however have experience in building vehicles (a 70 mph methanol powered gokart included) and over a year of metal fabrication experience. The mount would not be that hard to build.

[ramenjames]

i dont want to lug it in to battle its just an idea
if i build it it will go on to a veicle tho

[trains are bad]

It would definately be cool project, but think kind of silly when fast markers do 20bps with single barrels.

[ExtremeODD]

mount a few black dragun TESs on there, they are up to 20 bps full auto, and got some anti chop eyes, they are like 260 for each, and get a mass fast loader, like an halo or evo2 with some massive *** attachment for compasity. whoo

[fnherstal]

tippman hellhound has a six barrel gatlin gun on golf buggy type thing

http://www.tippmann.com

[SlartyBartFast]

You'll never be able to time a single bolt to multiple barrels. Unless the rotation of the barrels is controlled by a stepper motor and the barrels stop rotating while the bolt cycles.

That would actually have a great advantage of allowing the paintbalss to leave the barrel without any cetripital acceleration induced by the rotation of the barrels.

I'd like to see the tippmann gatling gun in action, but my guess would be that all the paint flies up and to one side from where the gun is pointed.

I'd actually think that an Automag Quad-Cannon type arrangement would be far better than any gattling gun type setup for paintball. Heck, I think ANY gun in a quad setup would be better.

Have a look at the dual minimag (can't remember the thread). Or the Palmer 'Nasties'. Just mount all the guns so that all the feed necks travel close together.

I thought that a setup with a large hopper with 4 Halo bottoms feeding 4 warps would be ideal. Then you can have increadible feed rates and not need a giant overhead hopper.

[ScatterPlot]

The Tippmann Hellhound's gatling gun DOES NOT WORK. It's for looks only. It has a drill with some gears to spin the barrels, but other than just spinning it does absolutely nothing.

[SlartyBartFast]

Originally posted by bertmcmahan
The Tippmann Hellhound's gatling gun DOES NOT WORK. It's for looks only. It has a drill with some gears to spin the barrels, but other than just spinning it does absolutely nothing.

The Tippmann website claims 50 rounds/second. The 6000 round hopper and feed systems certainly suggest it was designed to work. So much for their credibility if it doesn't....

But if it is too much to maintain and no longer works, it just proves my point that gattling guns are a bad idea for paintball.

Quad cannon automags, 20bps/gun >> 80bps

[ScatterPlot]

The feed and all might just be for show, because I have seen numerous places saying that it doesnt work and all.

[Crimson_Turkey]

I've seen it shoot. They took off a dummie's jerset from 40 feet. It does get out of time though and then just is an autochopper.

[ScatterPlot]

Hmm, well OK I beleive you. Some people have been wrong then but I cant even remember where I saw that. Ive just always been told by almost everywhere I can think of that it doesn't, but an "eye-witness" and all says it shoots, then hey they've seen the thing.