If a machinist with a very tight lathe... have tooling that will be needed to produce the parts required ... SUREUnless your time has little value working on your own 1 off projects ... cheaper to purchase one !!
Title says it all! Yeah, I know they aren't terribly expensive. Just $100 for $5-10 worth of materials, and some time. Just curious how hard it would be to try making one.
Ken, Do you have a specific gun in mind? I think it would be a great project, if you like to tinker. I'm in my 40th year as a machinist and looking forward to doing some projects like that.
Quote from: customcutter on September 08, 2022, 11:43:52 AMTitle says it all! Yeah, I know they aren't terribly expensive. Just $100 for $5-10 worth of materials, and some time. Just curious how hard it would be to try making one. I made a new one for my Taichi X pcp rifle. Quite a bit of work calculating the Belleville (spring) washers size and disposition, but doable. Also I had to make custom micro-boring tool and grooving tool. But it gave very good results, mine is built for low-pressure output - around 450-500 psi for my .177 rifle (started out as a .22 caliber). I'd like to thank Bob Sterne and the other contributors to the thread again for their very precious help in the build .https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=187986.0
Are there any regulators that are not vented to atmosphere?Thanks for the replies.
Hi gentlemen, sorry for my late response, I don't follow the forum regularly.... I have made a couple of attempts in the past in making a regulator. The second remained unfinished. The first was operational but it was never installed to any gun. I made a jig for testing if it really works and it was succesfully cutting off at around 120 bars the first time, however it could be adjusted to any pressure. The difficulty is however in the profile of the tip which seals and isolates from the main hpa supply. I could post a couple of pictures if you are interested, but I dont know how to upload them.