i was wondering if you could actually put a bunch of bbs in a rock tumbler either with some fine grain powder or just with nothing at all and have them polished. has anyone ever done this before? i googled it and i think i'm the first to think of it? i'm gonna give it a go probably today if i can find my tumbler. let me know what you think! (i know it's gonna be a lot of comments on just buying better bbs, but why not give it a try?)
I've never noticed my bbs flight pattern to be so bad I felt the need to polish them...especially after the fact that decent bbs (which aren't much more expensive than lower grade) are already polished.
IMO. I don't think the polish is going to make a big effect to the BB's flight, but rather the consistency of how the BB was made, aka air pockets.
Do you get great ideas like this often?
CAKE AND PAIN
[quote="sniper9211"]i was wondering if you could actually put a bunch of bbs in a rock tumbler either with some fine grain powder or just with nothing at all and have them polished. has anyone ever done this before? i googled it and i think i'm the first to think of it? i'm gonna give it a go probably today if i can find my tumbler. let me know what you think! (i know it's gonna be a lot of comments on just buying better bbs, but why not give it a try?)[/quote]
ok, so i went ahead and did this. you were all right and i knew this would kind of be trivial in the sense that you can just get better grade bbs from aex anyways. so, what i used was not a rotary drum but one of those vibrating ones and i did it for about an hour or so in a plaster powder (finest grain thing i had lying around).
Now all we need is the airsoft version of handloading. Make some with hollow cores, steel cores, rubber outer layer. The possibilities... 8)
Right. The airsoft equivalent of handloading: the ultimate custom airsoft gun, with computerized barometric, temperature and humidty controls on the air charge, so that everytime the piston comes back it draws in precisely the same volume of air at the same temperature and humidity, propelling BB's hand selected and weigted to be absolutely round and exactly the same weight. :P :roll:
