Need an engineer here
I have in my feeble old mind, a design of a baffle system inside the shroud to help muffle the sound of a shot. In micorsoft paint, I drew out a very oversized rough design, and need input if you think it will work, or additional ideas to add to it.
The orange colored ring would be a thick rubber hose, similar to a car heater hose, a hydraulic hose or something like that. The inside black ring is a piece of PVC pipe perforated with holes. The blue blocks would be somekind of spacers to act as bushings to keep the PVC pipe completely steady and inline from the end of the barrel to the opening of the end cap, to keep pellets from clipping.
The holes drilled through the bottom of the rubber hose would allow excess air to be pushed from the hollow spaces between the PVC and rubber hose and out through the frame, where holes are drilled in the frame underneath the forearm.
My thinking is that the thick rubber hose would insulate alot of the sound. I don’t know, what do you think?
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The $ 48.00 shroud is a hollow tube………….Tony’s is not……I’m not sure what he does internally but he baffles it somehow.
I’m not a machinist or anything……..so I really don’t know what he does.
I know Shaky bought the Frame extender for $ 48………..maybe pm him & see how it works before you purchase it……..just my .02
I got one of Tony’s and it is professionally done. Very efficient and great craftsmanship. It works great. Worth the price.
But for those who cant pony up the dough the frame extender will help. It is litterally a hollow tube with a cap. And that is why the price is much less. Tony’s has special baffles and matches the outer diameter of the frame which requires a good amount of machine time.
I love and if you can get one one day you will love it also.
Would you add baffels and spacers to the Frame Extender?
Hey Triggerman
The $ 48.00 shroud is a hollow tube………….Tony’s is not……I’m not sure what he does internally but he baffles it somehow.
I’m not a machinist or anything……..so I really don’t know what he does.
I know Shaky bought the Frame extender for $ 48………..maybe pm him & see how it works before you purchase it……..just my .02
Hey Adam thanks alot.
I’m going to invest $48 bucks into one first thing tomorrow morning. I will give an update when it is here and what I think about it.
THANKS !!!!
synopsis, that is one question I asked a couple of weeks ago, if extending the shroud would help. Somebody one here (can’t remember who now) mentioned he builds this shroud extension like you diagramed, but I could not swallow the $200 price tag for a 6″ piece of aluminum tubing, so now I am on to exploring other avenues.
If you left out the orange part (which at this point is just decreasing the expansion chamber within the frame and going to make the sound, louder) you may get some increased sound scrub from drilling the inner (black tubing)…
I looked again,and I think keeping those blue things in line might be a problem,however,you could put the right size O-rings at intervals on the pvc. The main objective ,is to give the air a place to go,fairly easily, other than out the end of the gun. Different size chambers seem to break up the airflow better. good luck
Try it out! there is no set standard. Who knows? that might be a better design than all the ones people are using now. Let us know how it works. My guns stay apart as much as they do together(not all! at one time!), I enjoy the challenge of making them better. tz
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I don’t want to badmouth someone here but I still think 200 buck is a fairly steep price, for a threaded adapter, ali pipe and some plastic inside. I know machining and baffles are quite easilly made.
But I must admit that Tony’s looks professional!
Regards,
Marc