Lathe/Mill plastic ULE?

[DWill]

Oriented plastics

I think it could be done using more oriented plastics. traditional plastics are made up of carbon atom chains. This chain is long and has repeating subunits called monomers,which are chemically bonded to eachother to form polymers. Traditional plastics are just a random mass of entangled molecules but oriented plastics molecules are lined up, then the polymers are lined up in a parallel fashsion. These plastics are 10x stronger than other plastics, stiffer than steel and more conductive than copper. Im sure it can be done, especially in the future when more plastics are discovered, which isn't difficult and could be done in the near future.

[Temo Vryce]

I can remember talk to a friend of mine a few years, who at the time was working in a plant that made engine blocks for Ford. He was talking about to different types of Plastic Polymers that they were trying to combined to make a new engine block. The first was tougher than steel and the second had a stupidly high melting point. We have the ability to make the right polymers but why take the Mag, which is perfect, and change it?

[Cristobal]

As far as I'm concerned, I'd almost rather AGD didn't make any see-though mag bodies... that way if I made one it would be unique

Also, here are two good websites for understanding polymers. The first will be especially good for anyone who wants to an easy to read intoduction to the different properties of "strength"

Mechanical Properties of Polymers
Abbreviation Guide to Polymers

[aut911]

honestly, because people get tired of the same old thing.

people change because they like it, not because its nessesary. Why do you think people are removing material from their paintball guns. to make them look better? possibly. To make them lighter? mabye, but think of this.taking of an ounce or two from a body rail isnt going to do anything noticable except make that rail about as strong as a coke can. People that want as light a gun as possible can go ahead and shell out the clams but im keeping my solid stainless classic valve because i like it.

If your trying to get to the fifty faster, lift some weights, get off your butt and do some excersise and lose a couple pounds off of you.

not that i have room to talk.

aut

[Fatjon]

What ever happened to frymarkers plastic zgrip?

[shartley]

Originally posted by Fatjon
What ever happened to frymarkers plastic zgrip?

Tom expressed worries about stress and durability, and she only offered them as decorative pieces from that point on.

[AutomagBoy]

sooo will it or wont it work?

[MarkM]

Originally posted by rux21
hmm..
I went to the pbexpo in Pomona a while back and they had an autococker in which the body was in a clear plastic. I guess it was lexian... I wonder if that was just for show or it was actually for use. They never really shot it. But I've been interested in that idea ever since..

It sure would be neat to see though. I'd like to shoot a clear plastic gun. Aside from a BE stingray or tiger shark....

-rux

Was this the one you were thinking about?

[spydervenom]

how can you guys(some) say that delrin is a better choice than lexan?

lexan is scratch resistent so it wont scratch up when it is used(relative)

and at 1/4 inch thick lexan will be strong enough where you cant bend it by hand.


i took a hammer to a sample of lexan and it bent lightly, scratched none at all and breaking wasn't even thought of.

[sneakyhacker420]

clear things are cool... i'd buy a plastic body if they made one... and it was proved to be strong enough... even just a clear body rail would be pretty cool... wouldnt that be a possibility



or instead of a mainbody on a rail where it has to be thinner in places... make it like the MicroMags, with the thicker, square body, which would make it stronger


or, hell, cut some slots in the mainbody and put some little plastic windows in it near the breech and stuff, the metal would support the main parts... but lexan windows for coolness


just some of sneaky's ideas... i've seen acrylic(sp) drop fowards made by tysonmanchado, and if they can support a tank being bounced up and down for days and days of play... then lexan would probably hold up to the demmands of paintball... but could it hold the bolt retainer and stuff?

[rux21]

Yep .. thats the one!
Rock on!!
Does that thing work or is it just to show how the internals work?

Originally posted by MarkM


Was this the one you were thinking about?

[Statik7]

you can lathe plastic? thats like saying you can wrench a bolt.
you arent a machinIST

[Statik7]

oh and... if it can fit into a vise or jaws, it can be machined.

[sneakyhacker420]

it may be ugly, but it would be hella light... but a carbon fiber trigger frame, body, and rail


hell, if a carbon fiber grip frame can support a car, then it can hold the bolt back from harpooning the family cat

[MarkM]

Originally posted by rux21
Yep .. thats the one!
Rock on!!
Does that thing work or is it just to show how the internals work?

No idea if it works, though if you look at the width of the feedneck it would be fair to assume that is was made to work since if it was just for show why would you have the feedneck that thick?