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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