I am curious why paintball technology hasn't done major leaps?

[Hornet]

it would be cool to have a new option on the x-mag to have the warp tube/feed to be UNDER the gun ......my friend has been hit lots o times on the feed tube, also AGD could make a flatline/warp combo cradle

[hostage]

Well I have a renewed since of drive thanks to some of yall and how some things went well tonight. I went out with some of my club members to play pb tonight, we had an okay time being placed in an overcrowded field that was biased to one side. Reason I say it was okay, since we had a lot more fun later playing with my timmy and my friends spyder on how we could just interchange all the parts on them. It was sad how they fit so well. I was sitting talking to a Computer, Electronic, and Mechanical Engineers, with me (IT) and a CS major. We all seemed to be interested in the idea of R&D.

Darkstorm, that might be a good idea, we have some ideas of our own that we want to try out. Getting feedback from others we could easily accomplish this task(s).

Well imho, I think there is always room for improvement. When you say you can't, then that is when technology has a ression. Heat seeking paintballs or semi-bunker-permible paintballs hehe...j/k

MB my friends and I need a challange, someone or some company says we want to see this, but dont they have the time or means to do it.
-Doron

[nuclear zombie]

sure we've had leaps abounds aplenty, valve design , electronics , cnc cosmetic milling, just to name a few . We can look back about 20 years , and observe that paintball guns are still operating on the basic princeiple of expanding gas as a propellent.

You want to make a leap, design a paintball marker which opereates soley on electricity. The biggest problem I see in the paintball industry is that alot of fields can't afford HPA compressors or boosters and usually can only provide 2k psi off of standard nitro tanks.

You could use a large Lithium-Ion battery , a couple high speed DC motors, and make a mini pitching-machine for paintballs.

just my $.02

Good Luck
and check out the tinkers guild @ www.docsmachine.com they might help with some theories.

[ogre55]

Originally posted by nuclear zombie
[B]You want to make a leap, design a paintball marker which opereates soley on electricity.

Um, now you have left the realm of the practical. The firearms industry still uses expanding gasses as propellant, despite the advances in that technology over the last 700 years. We have been around for less than 30.

Before we do that, lets see about using those rumored bullet shaped paint marking projectiles (they are not balls anymore) that AGD invented the milatary, in a paintball game.

Ogre

[Darkstorm]

Okay you are on....

Hostage, I have enough stuff to keep you busy for a year. I 'll dump it into a deep blue thread and thing can get split into seperate thread from there.

BTW - you should pay attention to all posts for ideas....like "nuclear zombie" but not in the way he meant it. See you in deep blue.

[hostage]

So you think if we make a suggestion box and anything we make due to someone's ideas we give them one of the first prototypes?
-Doron

[RamboPreacher]

I am with AGD and Doc here.
Since about 93 or so, I wanted to have a HUD in my goggs with nightvision, shot count, time, temp, digital compas and countdown timer. I have approached several people several times, about it and some say it could be done, some don't even want to think about it.

Obviously that would not be for tournies (at least not with all that stuff, but maybe a tourney version) - but for scenarios and rec - that would be great. Okay, so the combined cost of all the seperate items might be a couple grand, but that shouldn't be if more folks wanted them. but will NEVER be if a manufacture doesn't make them and give them to a pro-team.

Same for markers. I had a clear autococker, way before others even thought of doing that kind of thing. everytime I want to do something I get knocked down, and kicked about. I am not an airsmith and I am not really an inventor, but I have possible ideas that I have tried to talk to "those that can", and normaly get "pocket-booked-out" because they dont' wnat to help and price to not sell, or just think I am crazy and wnat to get as much money as they can from me.

There have been trmendous leaps in marker technology (I am not saying they all are perfect), trap doors, boltless designs, dump chambers, and all the electronics that have been integrated is really amazing. But as AGD says, really it is about what we want. If "we" want to pay $2000 for a mouse-click trigger JAE, then they will make them. All the manufacture has to do is build a $700 marker, give it to a pro team, and see what the market does. those things will prolly sell like hotcakes and at double the price. (not against making a profit, that was only as an example).

On the other hand, I wnat a True Stock Class pumper that gets the max shot count out of a 12gramm and I have to pay the same price - no electronics, no mass manufacture, all hand-scratch built - because there are only a dozen or so of us that want to get something that "the pro's" don't have. (once again, an example - I could have used differnet versions of semi's)

As Doc said, we have self imposed limitations, and almost every thing limited is because of safety/insurance reasons. I am glad! I remember the days of (what's a chroney) shooting as fast as you can without breaking the balls in the marker (what a mess with oil based paint), and shop-goggles. Boy were we dumb back then. but we have grown, and we stsill are. Imagine another 15-20 years and looking back and saying "boy were we dumb back then".

Paintball is about fun (for me). I just wanna play. I don't care if John Doe super-pro has one or not. I want a trigger that is fast and has some tactile feedback, and not a clickity click. anyway, now i am ranting, sorry. - just my 2cents

[UThomas]

"Before we do that, lets see about using those rumored bullet shaped paint marking projectiles (they are not balls anymore) that AGD invented the milatary, in a paintball game."

They use to make those in the early 90's. They were a lot more expensive, used spring clips, and didn't work that well if memory serves. They also had an add on fin kit from another company. Same story. I'll see if I can dig up and old APG and find their add some time.

[luke]