Building a BB Machine Gun, Guides and instructions coming soon

[Warmonger]

Well, I think it would be cool to build an Airsoft BB Machine Gun for use on vehicles and mounted in bunkers.

http://www.spudfiles.com/spud_wiki/index.php/BB_Machine_Gun

The most promising one is the inline vortex BB Machine Gun design, which basically relies on a giant, fairly wek spring to push BBs into a chamber, as shown in the image below:



This is just a basic concept. A fairly strict regulation of the airflow should keep it at about 50 PSI or less, so as not to make it a bearer of high-speed plastic death.

I suppose the basic concept could also be used to form a .50 BMG or DShK replica for gaming. Mount needed, would make your gunboat or ATV even deadlier to a Wasteland Warrior.







Note the spring in the images, used to push the BBs out. A tub of cheap .12g 6mm rounds would suffice for such a project, though .20g+ 6mm rounds or even 8mm



Or the rarer 11mm



would work also, using the proper holes in the feeding block and properly sized barrels.

Also, I am conceiving a semi-auto Mounted Grenade Launcher running off of a paintball gun system, and launching dozens of BBs in one burst, not unlike the shower grenades that are so popular.

Some more examples of BB Machine Guns:

http://neospud.com/cannonpages/inlinevortex.html

[IRA Leader]

wow that would add so much to a war! I like the PB gun style idea, sounds like less work haha

[Warmonger]

Ha ha well not really, I have a couple of ideas that may help. The Spuddin site has some info on BBMGs.

It's not too hard really, I bet I could make one fairly easily. It's just controlling the PSI and rate of fire is an issue.

But I have ideas on how to counter that.

Another good site on building one...all you need is an air tank (like for paintball), a connection, a storage for ammo, and a barrel of appropriate length and width.

The hardest part is creating the vortex block for a BB Machine Gun, but I could probably do one fairly easily.

An example:

http://www.burntlatke.com/bb.html

[Warmonger]

Well, I figure it would be helpful to have a hop-up unit of sorts in the thing...so I'm probably going to use M249 hop-up units in it in order to have any 6mm machine gun created be able to have to range of an AEG. Not sure where I might find ones for 8mm or above though...

http://www.redwolfairsoft.com/redwolf/airs...il?prodID=25159



It may work well on a CO2 powered PKM or whatever in 6mm. But I want to make an 8mm version of the mounted stuff.