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alright so here's the deal my friends and i are working on some schematics ofr some off road paintball carts and are trying to figure out what people want in these carts. We are basically taking paintball to different level. Some of the things we are working on are gun mounts cannons and if we can ever figure out who to get the timing and loading mechs to work a gatlin gun mount. Right now we are just asking around to see what other features might be needed

its a possiblity the only problem with that is that each scope had to be fine tuned to the gun so the scope would have to go with the gun, not to mention that paint balls aren't as acurate as bulltes so adding a scope only helps aim better, we've tried it, you can find out the accuracy of your gun online at various websites

My buddy and I started to make a sandrail but we decided to convert it to a paint tank about 1/4 way through. We're still not done.

We are also undecided on weather to make it a 2 seater or not. If we go with 2, we will model it off the Hellhound. If we decide to go with 1, we will hook the gun to the searing so that the driver can aim with the wheel. the trigger will be electronic, so we can hook it to a button that is steering wheel.

it won't be too top heavy we solved that problem already by susing tube steel insted of solid steel we also have added shocks and lights for night time running. the problem we are having with the gatlin gun is that we are trying to make it look as real as possibel, state laws and such mandate that it doesn't look entirly like the reel thing, we tried to do the chain feed like a real gun but it doesn't work at all, a grav feed with a normal hopper doesn't work because the capacity is too small we tried a custom build hopper that was three times as large, but that was too big, we tried a tank with a spring board in the bottem that would push the balls up the tank with a chani feed into the gun but the sprins are too powerfull and we kept busting our balls, in more ways than one, smaller springs can't life the weight of the board, so basically we have to redesign the whole thing

I got to mess arround with a Hellhound durring a demo, I cant tell you how the gun worked because the mechanics were panneled off. I think it used a forcefed hopper simmilar to the A-5. The hopper its self reminded me of a 2000 round Halo connected to a flexable tube. I think that once the tube entered the gun, it emptied into a rotery feed that was timed to the rotation of the barrels. The gun was povered by a 24 volt drill and a 50lb fill station.

In my openion, a gatling gun is to difficult to time for a home job. I recomend modeling your gun off the classic browing .50 cal. If you want simplicity and massive firepower, just make a bi or quad gun out of some off the shelf markers. Just remember to convert them to full auto. I recomend the Tippmann A-5 because the modular design, and rotery feed will really help.

I like the idea of a gatling gun but there so hard to make. Does your hopper funnel balls to the gun single file or en'mass? I think that if you drop many balls into a rotery feed, then hame the feed kick a ball into a port or funnle that would drop the ball into the barrel, The gun could become more relyable. You just have to makeshure that the timing is set right. If you attach a small funnel to each barrel, the gun's timming wont have to be perfect. It just has to kick the ball into the funnel as it and the barrel come arround. The spinning of the barrels should force the ball down into the barrel where it should stay until it is fired.

Its hard to explain with words, I can draw a pic and send it if your intrested.

Keep to air ball and dont play wood anymore.

I played woodall once and hated it never played it since.