Squeegie Balls?

[beam]

Don't ask me why I thought of this but here is an idea for a product. I think in the Brittle Paint thread, someone said somehting about a gun shooting itself clean:

Squeegie balls.

Small oversized foam balls that you could mix in your hopper in a 1 to 10 ratio or something else.

Then if you have a break...shoot one out and it squeegies your barrel clean. Just mixing them into a hopper may be wasteful and unreliable so there could be some other quick way to use them only when needed.

After the game, you could pick them up off the ground, wash them, and reuse them.

Pick it apart...but I thought it could be a neat concept.

I dunno.

[Load SM5]

I don't know where I heard this but a few years back some guy was claiming that some large cotton balls, damp with alcohol, worked pretty much like what you described. I never bothered to try it and I think the cotton would get picked at by the barrel nubbins. The problem would be, pretty much like you said, getting them into the gun without removing the hopper.

[J]

You could always put them in the bottom of the PF tube, just take the plug out.

[zads27]

In an angel, you could open the 'breach block' and put one right into the breach area.

[HoppysMag]

ya flip the gun over, and stick it in the pf bottem. Or make like an elbow with a hole big enough to fit the Squegge ball in when you compress it with your fings but the hole gotta be small enough so paint wont come out.... Put a little door on it

[Cha0tic]

would you mind if i expirimented with that stuff? i know its kinda your idea though....

[paintballrulzs]

I honestly have thought about this. My idea was that if you geta break you just removes the pf plug and put the "squgee ball" in there. Then just shoot it through. I was thinkin they would b so cheap they wouldn't be worth picking up. I have actually pndered the thought of using nerf balls. If i come accross the right size i will buy some. We need some ideas. This would be a killer product. I am sure someone has the ability to make some of these. AGD? need a new product? lol maybe when thinks cool down a bit

[Load SM5]

The only problem I can think of are that most high end guns are vert. feed now. You could sell to the powerfeed mag owners and maybe a few shocker owners, but there's your market right there. I doubt rec players with lowert to mid end guns would worry about them that much. Cool idea though; I'd like to see how it turns out.

[HoppysMag]

id buy some. sell them in paks of like 10 or pakes of like 50. sell em like Paintballs in difrent sized paks so your not forced to buy like 1000 of em when your only gunna need 5. Where would you store them in your pocket? Mabey some kinda holder on the gun might work better?

[FooTemps]

Dude... I got a good idea for the squeegie balls. TRAP DOOR FEED!

[HoppysMag]

ya i said the same thing! but where are u thinkin for the trap door. cause i was said in the elbo but i doubt that would work.

[FooTemps]

Like the prototype trap door feed...

[Lone Gunman]

You could attach like a ten round tube to your elbow at the same angle as it comes out of the gun. Fill that with squeeggee balls, then have a second powerfeed like plug at the base of the tube where it meets the elbow.

So when you needed to clean your barrel, tip your gun upside down, turn the plug on the tube and then flip the gun upright again. Then the weight of the paintballs would be pushing the squeeggee ball into the breach where it could be then shot.

[HoppysMag]

well i just did a test.

I took some foam i found in my basement cut it up into a little ball like 1 inch in size
Gassed up my mag.
Went to the back yard Stabed a few balls with a safty pin and put them in the breech. Shot them and they all broke in the barrel. i took out the PF plug shoved the foam ball in and shot. idsay the big one got 10% of the paint out.the balls have to be bigger than a normal Pball so that they are compressed and snugg against the barrel
I perposly broke the 4 balls in my barrel and it got mabey 10% of the paint from the mentioned balls out. but hey il make new ones and try new material.

Edited*** i had a messed up number, it only got 10% of the paint.

[paintballrulzs]

how about nerf balls?