ultra fast paintball minigun?

[matt-o]

hey, while looking through some magazines in my local proshop i saw the tippman hellhound minugun in an old magazine, it said it couldshoot up to 40+ bps or somethin like that, anyone have any idea how it would work, all they said was 2 cyclone feeds fed it.

[68automagpwnr]

http://www.warpig.com/paintball/articles/pressreleases/hellhound.shtml

maybe that link will help.

[sneakyhacker420]

sorry man, its all for show, too many noobs are argued this with me and all of them lost


just another marketing gimmick

[matt-o]

oh i know it isnt anything to be used, but it does fire and its peaked my interest

[matt-o]

but if it could be fed a vike can shoot almost as fast so i guess its nothing too crazy

[p8ntball72]

look at bottom of page.. http://www.montysminiguns.com/paintball.htm
I think they cost like 6 grand

[matt-o]

wow thats rediculously helpful.
thanks (not being sarcastic)

from that pic i can see that the drill is the trigger, it also powers the cyclone feeds, but thats it the rest is behind the metal shroud

[Spartan X]

It does NOT work from what I know. The barrel rotate and there is one int he middle that shoots at about 10 bps....you can ever hear it in there video...thats only 10 bps....

[Got_Paint]

The Grinder is the closest thing to a fully funtional minigun

[XbeasleyX]

Grinder = Gatling(sp)Gun
Gatling Gun + Electric Motor = Minigun
Gringer + Electric Motor = Paintball Minigun

Problem Solved

[Got_Paint]

You'll have to talk like a Dutch Uncle to get Palmers to build another though, so it looks like we're out of luck as of now

[edweird]

Some of us have been batting around with the idea of building a minigun... nothing solid has come from it yet tho.

I have the Gatling gun experience... just lack the machining and 3d design experience the others ive talked to have.

[matt-o]

well even if the vid is just one barrel firing and the rest moving, cant really tell, the pics clearly show a feed system much like an a-5 on the tippman cannon, so i know how it feeds i just dont know how it fires, would it chamber a ball into the barrel then have a bolt come in and fire it, cant think of anything else but i dont think that would work. could it be basically 10 rotating blowbacks with balls being chambered by 2 cyclone feeds, that seems more logical.

[XbeasleyX]

I think it would be possible with a Spyder hammer/bolt set-up just shorter, having air and the valve spring/ect... on each barrel. Just an idea

[matt-o]

yeah, i think its basically 10 rotating 98s fed with paint by 2 cyclone feeds, all powered by the drill's rotation