CPU64
Well-Known Member
I've been looking through my stuff here and I have an old cap pistol made by Edison Giocattoli, an Italian toy company and they make cap gun that would NEVER be sold in the us since they are so realistic.
Now their pistols use 13 shot strip caps instead of the round 8 or 12 shot caps. They can also link together for 26 or more shots.
Their guns also cut each spent cap and ejects them the same way an empty shell gets ejected in a real gun. The entire action is very linear but reversed from a real pistol.
In a regular cap gun, the cap sits in a drum with a "firing pin" inserted into each cap, these pins are part of the drum. And the hammer does its thing.
Now for the pistols, the top of the clip is the striking plate, and the end of the barrel has both the firing pin and the cap cutter blade. As the trigger is pulled, the barrel moves forward, a side lever moves the strip up one round onto the back striking plate and at the end of trigger travel, the barrel slides back firing the first cap.
One the second round, the cutting blade cuts the first cap and it flies out to the right..
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I'm thinking, with the help of paintball and airsoft designs, to somehow automate this action into a 3 round burst for the BR.
I'm considering a few ideas, maybe a electronic with a strong solenoid, or mechanical with a rotating mechanism sort of like a steam locomotive to move the barrel on 3 turns/reset.
Any suggestions?
Now their pistols use 13 shot strip caps instead of the round 8 or 12 shot caps. They can also link together for 26 or more shots.
Their guns also cut each spent cap and ejects them the same way an empty shell gets ejected in a real gun. The entire action is very linear but reversed from a real pistol.
In a regular cap gun, the cap sits in a drum with a "firing pin" inserted into each cap, these pins are part of the drum. And the hammer does its thing.
Now for the pistols, the top of the clip is the striking plate, and the end of the barrel has both the firing pin and the cap cutter blade. As the trigger is pulled, the barrel moves forward, a side lever moves the strip up one round onto the back striking plate and at the end of trigger travel, the barrel slides back firing the first cap.
One the second round, the cutting blade cuts the first cap and it flies out to the right..
[attachment=8402
istola.jpg]I'm thinking, with the help of paintball and airsoft designs, to somehow automate this action into a 3 round burst for the BR.
I'm considering a few ideas, maybe a electronic with a strong solenoid, or mechanical with a rotating mechanism sort of like a steam locomotive to move the barrel on 3 turns/reset.
Any suggestions?
