Partial CVF - Yet another theory

[Rook]

Well, I've read about the common problem of over-pressurizing a Collossussed or K-Modded soaker, and how the trigger fails to pull. I've come up with a possible solution.

When you CVF your soaker, rather than seal it off completely, insert a very tiny tube (like a coffee stirrer) and glue that into place. This will allow pressure to slowly be relieved over time so you won't have to do it manually, but at the same time not rob you of all of the water in your PC.

I've never used a K-Modded of Colossussed soaker, so I don't know how hard or easy it is to stop pumping. This may serve little to no purpose at all.

[isoaker]

Insertion of a small tube that will allow limited water flow would be hard to seal properly and hard to control the flow-rate (a coffee stirrer is rather large, actually, resulting in an interal 0.5-1x stream). As well, you'd be steadily losing power after charging the PC if you've inserted a non-gated tube. It'd be more adviseable to add on a stronger pressure release valve or reinforce the trigger as opposed to putting a small tube into the system to release pressure.

[SSCBen]

This would not only be hard to implement, but I doubt it would stop catastrophic failure.

You can buy adjustably pressure relief valves from McMaster-Carr if you were set on having some sort of safety feature. That's what I would do if I were to do this.

You must realize however that using a modified water gun is like pressurizing PVC beyond the pressure rating. The water gun was not designed to take that stress. Note that breaks occur all of the time in modified water guns. Actual breaks occur in homemade water guns very rarely. In fact, most if not all problems are leaks or problems resulting from poor or incorrect solvent welding (and both are related).

Either way, you can feel when the pump gets extra hard usually, and if you don't stop pumping there you will break your modified water gun.

[Rook]

I'm not too surprised that it wouldn't work. Oh well, thanks for clearing that up. :;):