Squeegie Balls?

[HoppysMag]

you know what i think iv got some some where. Il try to findem and see if they would work

[paintballrulzs]

I planned on headin out today and find some faom balls that would do the job.

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wow! i thought this idea would get shot down right away.

Have you guys ever seen those LazerBalls that Brass Eagle puts out. I think they are foam and are meant to be used to play close-quarters indoor paintball.

I was thinking of getting my hands on some of those to see if they work.

I think they are pretty expensive though.

[HoppysMag]

ya but the lazer ballz are 50cal there too small

[Aliens-8-MyDad]

ok i just threw these together in Paint but its my idea and you would have to have warp and PF



as you can see the squegee balls are held in one of those little 10 ball tubes and can feed down when u press a tab with a hole in it so balls can go through

[paintballrulzs]

I get ur drawing but think of this. What would stop the paintball from comming. They are being forced up and would push the "squgee balls" back up there tube. C what i mean?

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Originally posted by HoppysMag
ya but the lazer ballz are 50cal there too small

Thanks for the info. I would've hated to spend the money on something that wouldn't have worked.

For me (hopper on top of my gun) I like the idea of being able to tip my marker upside down, fire about 4 shots to try and clear out some paint.

Being able to quickly remove my PF plug, pop a foam rubber ball in and shoot my barrel clean really appeals to me.

Seems like it would be just as easy if not easier, and maybe more effective than squeegying.

[Aliens-8-MyDad]

i dont know... turn off warp for a second and fire a round

[rhetor22]

The only problem with this is in woodsball... you don't want to just shoot foam balls and let them sit in the woods.

[paintballrulzs]

well if they r made cheap then it is worth losing a foam ball or 2

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I agree....they wouldn't be environmentally friendly....

But still...I need to see if this works...even if you just shoot it into the ground at your feet and pick it up.

[Vegeta]

This has been mentioned before by someone in this forum. I remeber readign it late at night and thinking I should reply but I was too lazy.

[DaXtremeist]

what if ya took one of the nerf darts the small ones with the suction tips on them and cut it down short and put that into the breach : ) would mainly only work on an angel but would clean it... or if ya can't get your hands on anything you could buy the nerf balls and shave them down to .70 or .69 wichever

[billmi]

Floating around my attic somewhere are a couple of tubes with design drawings that I did in college in the late 80s for a variety of ideas, most based on the DMR series valve.

One of the breech designs (not part of a full paintgun design) was for a dual breech. One side had a vertical feed port, while the other was slightly oversize, wedging from larger in the back to smaller in the front. When the ball breech (the one with the vertical feed port) was inline with the barrel, the second breech sat to the left of the paintgun, with a spring fed magazine behind it that would keep it loaded with one of 10 or so neoprene cylindrical squeegie plugs.

Thus when you need to squeegie, you slide the breech over, fire the cleaning plug through, then slide it back to load paintguns. Practically it would have problems with the cleaning plugs compressing in the spring magazine, so you might have one and a half loaded into the cleaning breech, and not be able to slide it over. I considered a stiffiner in the middle, like a plastic core, but that might turn the cleaning plug into a dangerous projectile. That still left the possibility of hand loading a cleaning plug one at a time when shifting the breech over, which wouldn't be bad either.

Of course it's sitting in the roll with a sliding door breech, rotary breech, and blow forward breech design... None of which I ever carried past the idea stage.

If I find them next time I'm rummaging around up there I'll make some scans. Could be entertaining stuff, and or might fit well with an idea someone else has.

See you on the field,
-Bill Mills

[FooTemps]

Maybe we shouldn't use foam in this idea. What's a good *SAFE* barrel cleaning material that is AFFECTIVE and ENVIROMENT FRIENDLY?