Looks fantastic! I am good with aluminum as well. I wish i knew about this about 2 weeks ago. I work for my colleges mechatronics department and we just scraped a nice big block of forged T6-7075 aluminum that i could have donated to the cause. I was offered it, i just had no use for it.
I'm not sure what other guys are after, but I'm looking for higher shot count and low ES more than power. My wife will be doing sub 30-yard plinking 10 months out of the year, I can turn it up a bit the other two months for squirrel hunting.
Quote from: MDStroup on June 14, 2016, 08:56:16 AMLooks fantastic! I am good with aluminum as well. I wish i knew about this about 2 weeks ago. I work for my colleges mechatronics department and we just scraped a nice big block of forged T6-7075 aluminum that i could have donated to the cause. I was offered it, i just had no use for it.gracious!! 7075 is amazing stuff!!!! I love working with 7075 have some drop bars of it I always planned on making breaches out of.... depending on the size of the block I definitely could have found some use for it lol... you can almost always find someone willing to take scrap metals off your hands around here especially if its big enough to be used for something!!
Quote from: mobilemail on June 14, 2016, 04:56:24 PMI'm not sure what other guys are after, but I'm looking for higher shot count and low ES more than power. My wife will be doing sub 30-yard plinking 10 months out of the year, I can turn it up a bit the other two months for squirrel hunting.thats kinda the awesome thing with a setup like this..... using the stock spring the preload can be low enough to not even crack the valve to all the way to spring bind.... so you can tune across a pretty wide range... plus there are lighter springs like the 2260 springs and heavier springs out there you can use as well to pretty much tune how you want.....
Yup, that is pretty much what i am going to be doing to mine in the beginning as well. Then when i get enough money back together i am sending the Maximus off to Rocker1 to work on.
Speaking of springs, what hammer spring are you going to use on this SSG? I figured i would ask in the thread instead of a PM incase anyone else had a similar thought or had questions or comments on it. I know i would like to try a 0.040" thick hamner spring to see if it would work.
Quote from: MDStroup on June 15, 2016, 01:09:52 AMYup, that is pretty much what i am going to be doing to mine in the beginning as well. Then when i get enough money back together i am sending the Maximus off to Rocker1 to work on.Honestly you seem to be a pretty mechanically inclined fella.. Rocker does great work and is a *(&^ of a guy!! but I am betting by the time you get ready for that you will be doing your own tuning and getting things figured out Quote from: MDStroup on June 15, 2016, 01:20:06 AMSpeaking of springs, what hammer spring are you going to use on this SSG? I figured i would ask in the thread instead of a PM incase anyone else had a similar thought or had questions or comments on it. I know i would like to try a 0.040" thick hamner spring to see if it would work.a .040 spring would be to heavy for the lower power tunes your looking to get right now.... The earlier disco's had a .034 16 coil spring,,,, the newer ones I hear have a stiffer spring and I am not sure what it is.... mine has a .039 coil spring in it now but it WAS tuned for about 26.5 fpe I ran a 2k fill down to about 1300 psi with a small transfer port to get a nice flat shot string... think its posted a few pages back in the disco SSG thread.. that tune is no longer applicable because the gun is now regulated and a few things changed so I may be going down to a weaker .034 spring not sure still playing with it....since this is going into a maximus and the maximus is advertising more shots then a disco stock I am sure they have made port and maybe a spring change to get the efficiency back up from the last gen of disco's...personally I think the spring thats in the gun now would be a good starting point to tune with and for lower power (say 20 fpe or less) is probably going to be a good choice.....this is a good subject and has me thinking... I am building and shipping these WITHOUT a spring because of the fact every ones tune needs are a little different and spring choice varies... Thats why when I sized all the parts I built these to fit stock springs and the spring variations for a disco thats out there within reason... I have a very heavy spring(need to measure the wire) I have not tried in the guide rod yet.... I never liked it in the gun as its cocking force was VERY high... but I guess if I am going to make this as universal as possible I need to make sure a massive power spring will fit the rod as well...thanks for bringing it up... I will have to make sure its a good fitment for heavy springs as well before i send them out to everyone....!!!!