Triple aggressor failure.
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:54 am
Well, yesterday the PC failed on my 3xA*, so I've got to find a solution to this. I might just cut out some parts and have a bit of flexible pipe bridging the gap it used to be in and use only the external PC I created for it.
However, I've had the idea to use the mini pistol port for a section of LRT. I suppose it's as good an idea as I've got, and it would convert the 3xA to a hybrid water weapon - both the CPS and air parts use the valves to turn them on and off.
I'm not going to be building a CPH for a while, but this would allow experiment before I do so.
It would probably also mean that I could fit more than the entire contents of the reservoir into PCs, for huge soakage times - a backpack might be needed, or I might ditch the current reservoir in favour of a backpack only type (could I somehow manage to fit my CPS 3200 backpack to it?)
And if I did decide to fit a low bore auxiliary water balloon launcher to the 3xA, that could be fun - a CPS, air pressure and water balloon launcher combo. The wbl pressure tank could be stored where the reservoir currently is (if I choose to remove it)
*huge crack down the seal between the two halves of the PC. The PC is actually quite a poor design - it's not spherical or close to it, so failure is more likely. I actually had the external PC fitted at the time - not even designed to take pressure (1mm walls), and it survived the 100 psi that caused the internal one to go (3mm walls). There was a huge crack and then a huge bang to match it - nothing like a trigger valve going.
I recommend that people take more care when CVFing a weapon like this - new weapons are likely to be the worst culprits for bad PC glue seals.
However, I've had the idea to use the mini pistol port for a section of LRT. I suppose it's as good an idea as I've got, and it would convert the 3xA to a hybrid water weapon - both the CPS and air parts use the valves to turn them on and off.
I'm not going to be building a CPH for a while, but this would allow experiment before I do so.
It would probably also mean that I could fit more than the entire contents of the reservoir into PCs, for huge soakage times - a backpack might be needed, or I might ditch the current reservoir in favour of a backpack only type (could I somehow manage to fit my CPS 3200 backpack to it?)
And if I did decide to fit a low bore auxiliary water balloon launcher to the 3xA, that could be fun - a CPS, air pressure and water balloon launcher combo. The wbl pressure tank could be stored where the reservoir currently is (if I choose to remove it)
*huge crack down the seal between the two halves of the PC. The PC is actually quite a poor design - it's not spherical or close to it, so failure is more likely. I actually had the external PC fitted at the time - not even designed to take pressure (1mm walls), and it survived the 100 psi that caused the internal one to go (3mm walls). There was a huge crack and then a huge bang to match it - nothing like a trigger valve going.
I recommend that people take more care when CVFing a weapon like this - new weapons are likely to be the worst culprits for bad PC glue seals.