Swiss Cheese & General Piston Weight Reduction

[jagillham]

Just finished my fairly extreme piston slimming down, so thought I'd show it on here. Not seen anything this drastic on this forum before

Reduced the actual piston weight from 16g to 11g. Total weight including aluminium piston head is 22g.

Whole idea being that the piston travels faster, and also causes less wear/noise on impact. Will see how it goes when the new casing arrives!

[SAS Scott]

Re: Swiss Cheese & General Piston Weight Reduction

I did one like that my piston but i took the middle guide rail out .

As mine was a half metal tooth piston ( like yours ) I found it snapped where the metal teeth end.

Lets hope yours goes better.

[Caveira]

Re: Swiss Cheese & General Piston Weight Reduction

Lets hop yours goes better.

None of Jag's guns last that long anyway

[jagillham]

Re: Swiss Cheese & General Piston Weight Reduction

Just the runner you took out, or took that area out completely?

I figure with the straight line reinforced by the runner, should hold up pretty well! (Hopefully!)

[NitroJoe]

Re: Swiss Cheese & General Piston Weight Reduction

why not use a plastic/polycarb head for even less weight?

Sure you have a reason I'm just curious

[SAS Scott]

Re: Swiss Cheese & General Piston Weight Reduction

Just the runner you took out, or took that area out completely?

I figure with the straight line reinforced by the runner, should hold up pretty well! (Hopefully!)

I did the same as you , using an SHS piston but I cut out the middle runner to take even more weight off.

[jagillham]

Re: Swiss Cheese & General Piston Weight Reduction

Oh dear, lol. Hopefully if it does go, will spare the gears etc!

Reason for the aluminium... out of stock of the poly one I wanted. It's from the ARS MASK set, apparently CNC machined T6 aircraft aluminum (so pretty damn light!)

[Crude Skinny B]

Re: Swiss Cheese & General Piston Weight Reduction

Similar:http://ftp.airsofttutorials.com/cent..._a_piston.html

I have another one with full metal teeth an and as above I removed the guide rails and had about 2mm left on the back for the rail, as i had short stoked there was no need for any more rail at the front or middle, ran it at 40-50 rps and no problem, I even drilled holes where the piston head sits to lighten it further

[S3V3R]

Re: Swiss Cheese & General Piston Weight Reduction

Looks cool. I'm not sure if I could justify the loss in weight for the loss in strength. Might buy a reasonable decent but inexpensive piston and try this =)

[jagillham]

Re: Swiss Cheese & General Piston Weight Reduction

Will keep you guys informed either way. Good performance or epic fail?

Vote now on your red button, lol.

[SAS Scott]

Re: Swiss Cheese & General Piston Weight Reduction

EPIC FAIL as its not a full metal slide I think its going to snap in half like mine did.

[Beef]

Re: Swiss Cheese & General Piston Weight Reduction

I see an epic fail ahead

[S3V3R]

Re: Swiss Cheese & General Piston Weight Reduction

Yeah... Im gonna wait until you come back with a verdict before i spent monies

[jagillham]

Re: Swiss Cheese & General Piston Weight Reduction

How many rounds your one last roughly? Also what spring?

[SAS Scott]

Re: Swiss Cheese & General Piston Weight Reduction

Mine lasted 100 so I reckon about under 1000.