Quick Valve

Compiled:10-19-01

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     Ok, so here's the low down.  This is a valve that I designed after looking at Ed Goldmann's Supah Valve, and wondering how the heck it worked.  So I decided to figure it out.  I've made a couple drawings here for you, so enjoy.

    Figure 1.

     Okay, the original idea was to have a piston similar to the looks of the letter H as you can see in the above picture.  However the pressure exerted on the skinny middle portion of the piston would have been too great.  So I came up with this idea.




Figure 2.

     Just to make it clear, for the different parts & cross-sections of the gun, I made this picture.

Figure 3.


     The hot pink line on the bottom is a guide rod that keeps the valve, piston whatever, I'll just call it the valve from turning inside of the T.  This way the slanted guide that helps direct the air towards the bottom of the T doesn't turn to end up blocking the opening.

Of IMPORTANT NOTE...  The below animation ASSUMES that YOU KNOW there is a
    Solenoid attached the left side of the valve.  See above (Figure 1.) 


Figure 4.

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