Micromag Pistol

[M98Punk]

Sooooo I have a generation 1 micro body that I picked up a few weeks ago (in all it's fixed body glory). I was going to turn it into another r/t q-poded wonder BUT I'm getting a Gen 3 from my wife as a birthday present (yeah she is that wonderful) SOOOO I have been thinking long and hard about turning the Gen 1 into a pistol. I figure it's already half way there. I was wondering if anyone has tried something like this before? I have a direct feed coming from PTP (along with a pile of other stuff) so I figured if I could clamp a spring feed feed tube onto it and maybe drill it for a back bottle and get a 12 gram adapter? Anyone have any ideas or experiences to share?

[Smoothice]

http://www.automags.org/forums/showthread.php?t=247439

[M98Punk]

checked it out and already sent him a PM, I was wondering if anyone did it with a right feed body. Makes it a bit different because I don't think I can go right off the vavle like that. I would run out of room. But I will see when I get parts. I am not trying to track down a feed tube like that... and kicking myself for not thinking of it before I searched for his thread

[Mercenario]

I have seen it done with a phantom vsc feed attached to the side and a reversed valve, pics should be here somewhere someone might reember

[Smoothice]

You could put a reverse valve on it. Or have a 2nd hole drilled on the valve you have to make it a reverse valve.

[robertsr1811]

Depending on your level of proficiency, you might think about an under the barrel ASA. It makes it easier to deal with the right feed problem.



This is my first pistol build. Now granted it's a little easier to do on a classic mag as opposed to a Micro, but you get the general idea. Since you're running line instead of direct connecting to the valve, you get a lot of lattitude on the feed area.

Steve Spinosa had someone machine him some adapters to use on the feedgates of micromags to allow one of the clip designs to just clip on. It was slick as heck, and could possibly be done with a dremel and drillpress if you were feeling sparky...

Do you have any idea what kind of spring feed you want to use? That's really your starting point...

[El Camino]

Here's one I built using a PT Xtreme feed tube (yeah, I know, it's a Spyder ). The tubes are cheap and easy to get. I cut the powertube off, drilled and mounted the adapter I had made, it works great. I'm working on doing a Classic next.

[M98Punk]

Very cool! I was trying to upload pictures to show the beginning of everything but the AO forum won that little battle, now i have to try to remember my password for photosharing. So I was thinking of using a PTP warpfeed adapter atleast to start to hold the spring feed. the 12 gram was a different story. I did a few sketches of what I wanted it to look like, I wanted to have it right off the valve with a Vert adapter and a male to male and then if I could get a couple of male to female asa's that had a 90* in them I would be able to curve it around to stop some of the freezing. I have to think more on that but on paper it works

[El Camino]

You mean something like this. I used a two hole bottomline asa. I just cut the mount part off, file it smooth, a little paint on the end and I was good to go! In between the ASA and the end of the 12 gram holder I put a little piece of very fine screen that came out of an old reg I had to help stop liquid CO2.

[M98Punk]

Your specific media does not exist! :-P What I was thinking after puttering around IISports (the devil in CA) is getting two spyder vertical front asa/volumizers and doing some custom sawing pugging and connecting to give me the U bend I wanted. Now I have to dig and see if I have any around here (because who doesn't have a box of spyder SE parts in the closet) and go from there. And I need to buy a 6-pack for my guy with the CNC mill ;-)

[El Camino]

Here, I'll try this again.

[M98Punk]

Well why the heck wont it let me post pictures??!? Grr

[Ando]

You have to host them. Use...

http://tinypic.com/

or...

http://photobucket.com/

[M98Punk]

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[M98Punk]

What I have so far, valve is in the mail the detent and direct feed is waiting with the rest of my order at PTP