new paintball

[Coaster]

and because they are a sphere..

[srrdude]

look.. ive been thinkin bout this forever. I remember back when i was in like 5th grade and we plaid with
"ueblec" to learn plasticity. The "ueblec" was actually corn starch and water. Uner light pressure it solidified, and immediately liquified again. If starch were to be put into paintballs, the force from firing should make them solid enuff to spin with the shell giving much better accuracy and incredibly better range applications (hop up and such). My only concern is the solution not popping when it hits someone.. cuz obviously It will be under pressure making it harden, but i think the shell will crack removing pressure and immediately liquifing the starch and water based paint. I am yet to test this theory tho. I need to make a small level encapsulating machine.. a crank powered.

[breg]

hmmmmm...newbie dumb@$$ here... what about a gel filled paintball with a thicker consisisty than the regular liquid fill, but still thin enough to get the required splatter? Think maybe like a runnier jello.

Please forgive the spelling mistakes, I've been up for a very long while.
Thanks,
Breg

[Hasty8]

Okay, a few points...

mag-hatter

expanding on that powder filled pb thing. if it was powder filled, and it broke on someone (judging by IF it came out of the paintball gun), then it would just go poof and turn to dust as it were, and there would be no proof that the player is out.

Not exactly so. The Seattle police tested a new anti-riot device which was a Tippmann pro-lite filled with a sulfur based powder. This proves two things. One, powder filled paintballs can be and are produced though I am not entirely sure of the manufacturing process. Second, the powder was a fairly heavy type and it truly clung to the clothes or even the skin of the person shot.

The point of these particular paintballs? Crowd dispersal. The sulfur-based fill reeked so badly that a few shots would quickly disperse any crowd and boy did it work.

Not sure if I completely agree with Wadd's post since the force of the projectile colliding with another solid object would generally result in a break. Inertia does deal with breaks but so does shell rigidity and target rigidity.

As for a powder fill there is one thing that hasn't been really touched on here I think. It would smack the bejezeeus outta anyone who got hit by it. I watched this show where they were testing non-lethal crowd controls devices and one of them was the sulfur powder filled pballs. They clocked the pellets at traveling at 200 fps and shot a guy at about 30 feet a few times through a very think sweater and they guy had HUGE welts afterwards. I mean, way bigger than any paintball welts I have ever seen. It looked more like a baseball hit him after coming off McGuires bat!

[nato]

That is really interesting. I have seen news articles where officers have used Tippmanns to crash riots. Whether they were using that type of pball, I am not sure but it is a very interesting topic! Thanks for the cool info Hasty8!
N.A.T.O.

[sneakyhacker420]

PMI just introduced the new Mercury brand paintball

the fill is TOOTHPASTE THICK!... and that should help the ball to spin in a rifled barrel (eg: armson)

[srrdude]

wow.. ill hafta pic up a twister and try some of those.