New paint manufacturing idea

[Iakovos]

firtly refer to:
Tech Forum on the 06 -06-2002 "Spining Paintballs (boring and a bit technical) - mainly adressed to AGD " it will answer all the ojections and will ilustrate why while -infinitymag's solution is not effective. for any more questions and objections post as I am still online!

Iakovos Petropouleas
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
University College London

[ShooterJM]

I guess I was just thinking that spin has to be imparted in a controlled, consistent manner. Otherwise won't it be like a barrel break? ie paintballs coming out of your barrel like hummingbirds on heroin?

[Iakovos]

Iam on the chat 1

Lets do this live get on the chat

[infinitymag]

Iakovos-

When you say not effective are you referrring to Tom's statement about the instant loss of rpm's out the barrel?

[xatle]

the inner wall is even easier, just add a 3rd ply of stretched mesh gelitan in between the 2 outer shell plys, only need the one fill nozzle that way

[Iakovos]

I won 't debate my idea any more

Dear all,

Thanks for the responds. They are really constructive, but I can 't debate on my idea anymore. It is an idea that follows the laws of fluid and structure mechanics and should make a difference.

In any other case I would make two large scale models, one resembling a normal paintball and one that expresses my idea and test the in my department's Wind Tunel and then I would be able to tell exactly how and if my idea works. I could also say how much difference does it make.

But unfortunately for the paint ball industry, I have already established an area of research and have a long way to go.

Take care,

Iakovos D. Petropouleas
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University College London

[El Pipi Fantasma]

I have an Idea for the two axis spinner.

Get a pipe

Drill holes large enough for smaller pipe to be inserted

Get two electric motors

extend the bar that spins

put rod through center of small pipes

attach dies to ends of rods

put small pipe through holes

dies meet in middle

weld small pipe to big pipe

make a clip system to hold motor to outside of small pipe

attach large pipe to another motor

power it up

(wiring will be explained in later post after work )

[athomas]

How about adding baffles at 90 degrees to each other in each half of the paintball. No matter which direction the paintball wants to rotate, there will be blockage which will force the liquid to also rotate in that direction.

Here is a visual representation.

[hitech]

Re: New paint manufacturing idea

Originally posted by infinitymag
Since the seam is known to cause an indifference in the airflow around a paintball in flight, why isn't a new manufacturing process developed to replace the age old current one and make them totally seamless?

Because a seamless paintball isn't any more accurate than the current ones. The seam just doesn't cause big enough problems in the grand scheme of paintball flight. However, there is a "seamless" paintball, it's called the perfect circle paintball.