Delrin body

[Spaceman613]

G10 is fiberglass, not carbon fiber.... Thats a Fiberglass cocker. And it still used inserts for threads

[bryan]

If you check out Duponts web site you'll notice that delrin absorbs very little moisture when fully submerged in water for 24 hours. Its a very small number that would never happen to a real paintball gun, who leaves their gun in water for a day?? As well delrin would not be hard to hold if you gave it a matte texture...it would be fine. I think the only problems would be inserts as well as threading and wear.

[Spaceman613]

What would DuPont know? We all know that Delrin absorbs water and swells, I heard it on Pbnation. (dripping with sarcasm).

Threads is the issure, and wear. MAYBE pressure, but you couldbuild a super LP cocker for the pressure to be sub 150psi..

[PsychoBaller]

hmmm...

I do belive either WHITE WOLF.. or someone else made a Lexan see through cocker body once..... most of the probs came from easily stripped threads... and thread inserts didnt do much of fixing the problem either...

as said above... leaking problems out the ying yang....
im gonna try and research some old sites i have.. see if i can actually find the pics again....

~da baller

[tomcat]

delrin sleeves (tubes)

Why not just keep the regular body and expand the holes where the hammer and bolt go. Then install permanent sleeves inside so that the bolt and hammer touch delrin instead of the alum body. The biggest question is how much advantage are you really gaining for the effort (if it is just to make it slicker).

[ME262]

well if your going to go through all that even, why not press in hard chrome plated tubes, a hammer with teflon "rings" and a aluminum bolt with teflon rings as well.
but for what reason? (besides the it cant be done factor? ide try beleave me, but... )

kind of like a plane that was made with perfect surfaces, it flew great for like one flight, but the slight friction from flying actually destroyed the surface.

delrin isnt really that much lighter anyway, after all the inserts you would need.

[kiolia]

a delrin body ...

with an aluminum "skeleton" linking all of the threaded parts internally would be the tightest looking thing ever, IMHO. I think I might render something like that just to see.