AO: We are back from the dead... again! After an 18 day outage, we are finally alive and well. Who knew how complicated updating software/databases from 2008 would be. I still have alot of tweaks to make, but my main goal was getting everything patched and updated to 2026.
Vbulletin 6 has changed alot since 2008 so we will have a ton of new features to dig into.
I think that gun is actually kind of old. I remember seeing it in a magazine or on the interent a while back (before the emag came out). It's probably the same one just converted into an emag. Anyway, it looks awesome. I want it.
After looking at it some more, I've made a few guesses...
They must have mounted the left-side valve upside down to allow the air inlet to come out on the left. This means removing the little lug that sits in the z-groove on the rail.
As for the bodies, I have NO IDEA how they pulled that off; I'm guessing it's 2 minimag bodies, one hopper-left, the other hopper-right, but with the powerfeeds twisted slightly so that the hoppers dont clash when they're fitted.
The real question is how did they get a single solenoid to trigger 2, completely misaligned, sears!?? There must be some wacky sear mechanism that allows it to work.
Also, I would have guessed that the solenoid isnt powerful enough to move 2 sears at once, or if it is, I bet it uses up the battery pretty fast!
APG had a picture of a custom double minimag on the cover of one of their issues a few years ago.
I don't think it would be too hard to pull off. Sure you might need a stronger solenoid and you would have to have the sears mounted in a \ / formation. The left side valve wouldn't be too hard either, it's most likely a custom job. Personally I would love to see a video of this thing in action. Can you imagine the speed that you would go through paint with this thing? I wonder if both barrel fire together or if they alternate?
This is an E-Mag you would want to own just to say that you have it.
It must be a custom job..
The minimag bodys were angled so that the hoppers wouldn't interfere with each other, the hopper left body on the right, and the hopper right body on the left. This centers the weight better, and keeps you from having hoppers sticking out every which way.
The Retro valve on the left/top is indeed mounted upside down.. how do you know? the small print is usually on the right, E-Mag or ReTro valve is usually on the left, but it's the opposite on this valve. This raises the question of how to activate the on/off, which would now be pointing straight into the top of the body. Perhaps some machining work has switched the on/off to the other side of the body, or the front half of the valve is a left air inlet valve.
As for the sears, I thought about it for a minute, and this is what I think they did: they made a custom body rail (obviously), and then put two regular sear top halves (the see-saw) into the body, positioned vertically, like in a regular mag. Then they connected the sears by two rods, say on the front, and on the back:
left right
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then, they connected the e-mag clevis rod to a single bottom portion of the sear, which is connected to the upper half of the sears.
Now, with this setup, you fire two shots per pull, which is obviously NPPL-no-no. but then again so is having two barrels.
But this is the simplest and most practical way to do this setup (or at least the most practical i could think of in under a minute).
The manual/hybrid modes would still work (can you imagine the trigger kickback on TWO retro valves though?
The sears are probably not angled in "V" fashion, because you have to realize, that although you can release the bolt anywhere on its circumference, you still need to close that durned on/off, and that orientation is up/down.
NOW, onto my usual comments: I WANT ONE! hahaha
And, anothing thing caught my eye: Is that a 4500 flatline, or just an annodized 3000 reg?
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Due to the fact that this looks like a custom show piece I would guess that it is the 4500 flatline. It would be a very cool way for AGD to say hey we are coming out with the 4500 soon. Man my wallet hurts just thinking about the ammount of paint I could put through that in a game.
Nast Typhoons can fire one or both barrels. One valve runs the entire gun. On a 20 oz Co2 tank I think is 600 shots. From several articles I have read, the nasty weighs in at 10 pounds with twin VL 2000s and one 20 Oz tank. There is only an increase of 11% with teh second barrel on. That's how close the balls are to on another.
Later,
Alan
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I've seen that gun before at Hit and Run Paintball before it was E-Mag-ized. The Airgun techie Rod had it on display in the ProShop. Pretty sweet, but hella heavy. So Tom, when can we place orders? How much for the upgrade from and E-Mag??? LOL
Yeah, I checked that gun out at the World cup, Tom was raving about. It's really really heavy, go figure though. As far as firing goes, I'm pretty sure you'd have to use two air sources for the two valves.
The valve on the left is NOT mounted upside down!
On my mini the air inlet is on the left also, when I was checking into getting a retro for my mini I called AGD to see if they had any set up with the air onlet on the left and they only made a few but they have them avalable.
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