Dear readers! The article was published a long time ago and was written for specific videos in the “humor” category. Over time, many creators have chosen to remove their videos from YouTube. Nothing can be done about this, and there is no point in rewriting the article from scratch. So I leave the corresponding inserts in place of the removed rollers. For history, many of the carved examples of manufacturing were quite interesting.
All owners of pneumatics sooner or later have a desire to tune their favorite - increase power, accuracy, make a beautiful body kit. The extreme form of such an activity turns into a desire to create something of one’s own. We will talk further about how they make pneumatic weapons with their own hands in Rus'.
The original idea of the article was far removed from the current content; drawings, diagrams, manuals, the best original works, etc. were planned.
Expected
But after viewing the available information on YouTube, the worldview on this problem has changed; what happens next can contribute to causing nervous paralysis and the wildest criticism. So it’s better for the faint of heart to look for something else. And yes... there will be a lot of videos so that you can experience the same thing that I did. But first, a little educational program on this Wednesday, so that the hearts of seasoned pneumatic pipes certainly don’t skip a beat.
Operating principle
A slight evolution of weapons from our childhood. Surely everyone reading this has thrown a stone at someone at least once in their life? Surely almost everyone had a couple of dozen slingshots? And who made a crossbow with elastic bands and a clothespin? Has anyone used inflated bottles among throwing weapons? Now, if the memory begins to recover, then we continue.
Since homemade pneumatic weapons in our country today are not shown by high masters of this business, the main principles of creating them are simpler and cheaper. Therefore, the basic principles of operation of such weapons:
- rubber(!!!)-piston pneumatics - based on “syringes” and rubber bands
- PCP – no matter how cool it sounds, based on a plastic bottle and a bicycle pump
It is these two classes that describe the entire model range of inexpensive homemade pneumatics on the Internet. There are also options with flammable liquids... but this is another level.
How to make air guns with your own hands - plumbing rifles and pistols
Dear readers! The article was published a long time ago and was written for specific videos in the “humor” category. Over time, many creators have chosen to delete their videos from .
Nothing can be done about this, and there is no point in rewriting the article from scratch. So I leave the corresponding inserts in place of the removed rollers.
For history, many of the carved examples of manufacturing were quite interesting.
All owners of pneumatics sooner or later have a desire to tune their favorite - increase power, accuracy, make a beautiful body kit. The extreme form of such an activity turns into a desire to create something of one’s own. We will talk further about how they make pneumatic weapons with their own hands in Rus'.
The original idea of the article was far removed from the current content; drawings, diagrams, manuals, the best original works, etc. were planned.
Expected
But after viewing the available information on YouTube, the worldview on this problem has changed; what happens next can contribute to causing nervous paralysis and the wildest criticism.
So it’s better for the faint of heart to look for something else. And yes... there will be a lot of videos so that you can experience the same thing that I did.
But first, a little educational program on this Wednesday, so that the hearts of seasoned pneumatic pipes certainly don’t skip a beat.
PCP at 4.5 mm
And here is another homemade pneumatic weapon based on PCP under 4.5 mm with a tube-shaped reservoir. The technology is one of the most widespread on the Internet. Along the way, hardball players will soon be re-equipped...
THE AUTHOR HAS DELETED HIS VIDEO
PCP with a "strong one and a half"
And this is a variant of the previous pneuma, but with the most ordinary one-and-a-half-wheeler on board. For some reason I even liked her more for her originality.
Rise of the Plumbers
And here the scope is wider, you can immediately see the “not childish” fun. It feels like the pipes from my bathroom have been dismantled and gone to war. Shoots a nail dart. In general, I recommend watching it, it’s a good vintar. And most importantly, the descent is very entourage.
THE AUTHOR HAS DELETED HIS VIDEO
Airsoft
And here the author offers a do-it-yourself air gun for airsoft... to be more precise, a plumbing machine gun. It’s popular on the internet, maybe someone has seen it. In a foreign language, but I think almost everyone here will understand how to assemble pipes. The most complete manual for assembling a machine gun to destroy visible and invisible enemies.
Masters
It remains to be seen who the very magicians of modern cheap pneumatics are. No, gentlemen, these are not plumbers or even Mario. In the video, it is mostly children who are making samples of light hardball weapons... Apparently, children of hardball players (since a bottle of “Vstrel” was spotted, I really love it). Or airsoft plumbers (judging by plastic trends). Or partially conjugated... Let’s not get carried away with such a terrible “Santo Barbara”, but something here is clearly not clean. I suggest you start getting acquainted with exemplary videos from around the world.
Can air produce a significant effect?For example, we need to blow away a stack of books with air from our lungs (by the way, a wonderful item for betting with friends).
No matter how hard you try, this task is impossible for humans (supermen and other superheroes do not count). No matter how much we blow, the books will remain in place. But what if we cheat a little and put a regular inflatable ball under a stack of books and blow air into it. You will notice that without the slightest effort our books will rise above the table. And we used the same air from our lungs (you can proudly emerge victorious from the argument).
The difference is that in the second case we locked our air in a limited space and did not allow it to spread in all directions. And when the air has nowhere to go, it begins to work like a spring.
This compressed state of air and gas is studied by pneumatics. Pneumatics (from the Greek: breathing, blowing) is a branch of physics devoted to mechanisms and devices that use gas pressure differences for their work.
In other words, any pneumatic device uses compressed gas in its operation.
Pneumatic mechanisms are found all around us. These are the brakes in buses, trolleybuses and trucks, these are the doors in the same buses (have you heard how the compressed air hisses when opening?!), these are the jackhammers that are used to make holes in the asphalt...
...and of course air guns.
The popular pastime Paintball , where people run around with guns and shoot paint balls at each other, I'm sure everyone knows. I recommend it to anyone who hasn't played it!
So in this article we will tell and show you how to make a real pneumatic gun with your own hands - a compressed air gun.
What is such a gun capable of?! Let's look:
Materials:
plastic bottle 1.5 l.;
bicycle nipple;
plumbing adapter with faucet (from ¾ inch to ½ inch), coupling (¾ inch), piece of metal-plastic pipe 70 cm (diameter ½ inch), sealing tape.
The last picture shows alternative parts (we didn't have them at first) that also work great for our application (½ to ¾ tap adapter and ¾ female coupling).
Equipment:
superglue, nail or wide-headed screw, scissors, torch, knife, pliers, gas wrench, file.
Step 1.
Cut the thread from the bottle using a knife. We file off the remains with a file or sandpaper.
Step 2.
Using a wide-headed screw heated over the fire of an alcohol lamp (or gas stove), we melt a hole in the bottom of the bottle.
Step 3.
We cut off the nipple from the old bicycle inner tube and insert it into the hole in the bottom of the bottle from the inside. For this:
- We pass the thread through the holes of the bottle.
- At the end of the thread we tie our nipple, and pull the other end.
- In this way you can easily thread the nipple from inside the bottle.
Step 4.
Glue the nipple to the bottle with superglue. The main thing is to ensure 100% tightness of the gluing, otherwise we will not be able to inflate the bottle to sufficient pressure.
To improve gluing, you can first clean the hole in the bottom with a file from the outside and inside, get rid of burrs, glue a rubber washer cut from the same old bicycle inner tube (both inside and outside); you can use sealant or hot melt adhesive; But you can combine it all.
Remember about the tightness and rigidity of the structure so that when connecting the pump our nipple does not come off.
Step 5.
Screw a ¾-inch coupling onto the neck of the bottle. Because The neck of the bottle is plastic, it can be screwed on quite well without preliminary threading. Screw the coupling all the way into the outer rim of the neck. If necessary, use a gas wrench.
Step 6.
We screw our tap into the second end of the coupling. We first seal the tap threads using plumbing sealing tape. (You can compact it in any other way convenient for you).
Let me remind you once again that the tightness of the structure is very important to us.
Step 7
We screw a piece of metal-plastic pipe with a diameter of ½ inch onto the tap thread. The thread may not need to be pre-cut, because... The plastic inside the pipe can easily be screwed tightly onto the tap thread itself.
We took a piece of pipe 70 cm in length.
Step 8
Our air gun is ready! We enjoy the fruits of our labor and prepare for the challenges.
See detailed video assembly instructions below:
To test an air gun we will need:
1) pump (preferably with a pressure gauge to control the pressure in the bottle),
2) projectiles (paintballs, fruits, vegetables, water, paper balls... whatever).
Instructions for use:
- Close the tap.
- Pump air into the bottle to 3-4 atmospheres. Be careful not to over pump the bottle. (At a pressure of 6 atmospheres, my bottle exploded.)
- We load the gun with our projectile through the barrel.
- We aim and shoot by sharply opening the tap.
Attention! All operations with compressed air should be performed under adult supervision!
Do not point at people or animals!
Pneumatics can become a dangerous weapon in the hands of people without a sense of proportion and responsibility for their actions.
Good luck!
Homemade balloon from childhood!
For a long time now my hands have been itching to repeat something from my childhood and make an air vent from a pump and a rubber band!
In the second model, he even came up with an automatic fuse. It used a pump with a larger diameter, but with it the penetration force is noticeably less. You can see it in the slow motion video. How the ball flies out mid-stroke of the piston.
In the third model I will return to a small-diameter pump and maybe even shorten its stroke. Slow motion footage of the shot will answer this question.
I created this topic to gather people’s thoughts on how best to get more power. Afterwards I’ll make some PSP air from a fire extinguisher)
Does it make sense to make the piston heavier?
Added a door magnet. It was just round, though with an internal hole not 8, but 6 mm. I had to split it. But now the balls hold on and do not fall out even when the barrel is shaken downwards. In the second model of the air gun, I used the same magnet, but I didn’t split it, but enlarged the hole for the barrel with a Dremel.
If you find a pump with a larger diameter, then the power should also increase. I thought so, found it and applied it, but the power even dropped.
I was in third grade when I was making this air craft while sitting in the kitchen of my beloved grandfather. Nowadays, children rarely do anything with their hands. I remember the next episode of “Guests from the Future,” how, after watching it, I ran out of emotion to the plywood balcony with a jigsaw to cut out a Blaster, like a space pirate!
I used a larger diameter pump, but with it the penetration force is noticeably less
Afterwards I’ll make some PSP air from a fire extinguisher
.pierces through the bottom and the opposite lid. Glass bottles of beer and vodka break from 5 m. It looks like a through penetration.
It's called experimental archeology.
And all this in the 21st century “when spaceships roam the big theater” (c)
