Introducing The Deflator

[BLachance75]

That helps me make up my mind then. I just have to decide between polished clear or if I want to go wild.

[going_home]

Personally I'd avoid plating, when it starts to wear, it gets really ugly, and is a pain to refinish afterwards.

This.

Ever tried to sell a plated trigger frame that's peeling ?

You almost can't give em away.

[Merce]

This.

Ever tried to sell a plated trigger frame that's peeling ?

You almost can't give em away.

What's the best way to remove the plating?

[BiNumber3]

Media blasting or chemically I think.

[luke]

What's the best way to remove the plating?

Save your parts and time, just send it to a plating shop.

[C_losjoker]

Can not wait for this and the pump.

[BLachance75]

How has the testing on the prototype been going

[luke]

I've been slaving away on this everyday. I've finished this round of testing and have been redesigning (more fine tuning) various parts and features. I believe all the tweaking is done and I'm on my final designs so I've switched gears into production mode. By that I'm talking about reprogramming for production, designing fixtures, ordering materials and getting everything in order for a run. Machining prototypes and production is a different ball game all together, there's a boat load of more work involved getting ready for the production side of the project.

I believe I have the last few fixtures figured out, so I'm hoping I can get the last few designed and programed over the next few days. It's going to cost me time and money but I plan on machining one more complete prototype from the production programing and fixtures to verify the final changes, fixtures and material changes before I get started on the production run. I just want to get this as right as possible from the start so I'm not making small changes over the first few runs of bodies. I just want them as right as possible from the start.

I could write a book about what's been going on but that's it in a nut shell, were getting close and once production starts it will go quick. I know I'm close because my mind is wandering into the next project.

[Sk8ermog]

And that's why we appreciate your work Luke. You keep your products on par with the quality control of AGD and Tom himself.

[BLachance75]

I agree, it is nice to see you want to get it right the first time. I wouldn't expect anything different from you.

[psunitro]

Thats awesome to hear.
I can remember thinking of how easy production machining is vs RnD. But your right, production offers all kinds of other problems, when tring to be profitable, in time and money.

[cortexparasite]

Great to hear things are proceeding well!
I'd love to read a write up of your thoughts on the whole process once it's done, as I'd like to get into producing my own paintball stuff someday. It's half the reason I'm taking engineering classes right now.

[warbeak2099]

Coming into this late, but would you ever consider milling these down more? The current design looks a bit bulky for my taste, but I love the idea of a unibody. I've been out of the game for a few years but I've been thinking about getting back into PB and updating my pneumag and this would be cool as hell.

[luke]

Were on the down hill side of this project so you wont see any major changes, actually none at all if I'm lucky. So perhaps we can get you on board with a future design.

As far as the design and it looking bulky, I think holding it in your hands would give you a different perspective than what is coming across in the pictures. Making it smaller is actually not possible except in length and that won't happen (Sorry). There are very specific parameters in the Automag that designers are FORCED to work around, things that are impossible to change (Form follows function). That said, this design can not be made smaller because of the working parameters of the Automag itself.

[warbeak2099]

Gotcha, if you ever do a unibody similar to the style of your Beta rails, I'd jump on it in a heartbeat. Those rails look pretty sleek.