Brass Eagle Stingray budget build competition winner - The Stealth Ray
Thought I’d post this up. About a decade back, when pbriot.com was an active forum, they had a budget build-off. You had to take a marker that wasn’t working and get it going again for less than $50 excluding shipping and sales tax costs. The cost of the gun was included in the budget. Items pulled from your parts bin were fair game and didn’t count against the total.
I had a BE Stingray I had picked up at a yard sale for $10 that had a hard time getting up to decent fps (was shooting ~230 on a hot day with CO2), so I started scrounging for parts. I picked up a set of pull pins from eBay, a 10” Eagle Works barrel from pbnation (I think), and a bottomline adapter from Inflicted here on MCB. Also got a 6-stage expansion chamber from iisports and a package of 3/8” nylon beads from eBay. All pieces came within budget by less than a dollar.
A few other parts I gathered from around the house or the workbench: an old ASA, steel braided lines, 90* fittings, black hockey tape from some friends. Also some PVC pipe and a cap I sanded down.
The attached images are the result, and it ended up as the winning entry.
The hockey tape was used to blacken shiny braided lines and the barrel. It also was wrapped around the pin rings to make them less noisy when running and gunning.
A nylon bead replaced the steel detent ball that was eating up the aluminum bolt.
I dremeled a hole in the front grip and secured the old ASA there with two screws, and then attached the X chamber. Braided lines were run and a quick disconnect from my bin was installed near the back ASA to ease disassembly. Three nylon washers were added behind the main spring to give it a bit more smack. The PVC fitting was sanded down and glued into the pipe, then holes were drilled to create a fake suppressor. Black matte spray paint from the garage made a pretty good color match.
I love how much fun this is to shoot. The trigger pull is long and heavy and it sounds like you’d expect a plastic shooter to sound. But it looks cool and is consistent enough. When I take church buddies or my son’s friends to the woods, it always gets taken. The X chamber makes a nice front grip. The long lines and the X chamber give the CO2 plenty of room to expand so it never blows snow. And there are so many tank configurations: standard back bottle, bottomline with bottle facing back, or take off the X chamber and run the bottle facing forward (the ASA is reversible). Or bottle straight into the ASA on front of the trigger.
I had a BE Stingray I had picked up at a yard sale for $10 that had a hard time getting up to decent fps (was shooting ~230 on a hot day with CO2), so I started scrounging for parts. I picked up a set of pull pins from eBay, a 10” Eagle Works barrel from pbnation (I think), and a bottomline adapter from Inflicted here on MCB. Also got a 6-stage expansion chamber from iisports and a package of 3/8” nylon beads from eBay. All pieces came within budget by less than a dollar.
A few other parts I gathered from around the house or the workbench: an old ASA, steel braided lines, 90* fittings, black hockey tape from some friends. Also some PVC pipe and a cap I sanded down.
The attached images are the result, and it ended up as the winning entry.
The hockey tape was used to blacken shiny braided lines and the barrel. It also was wrapped around the pin rings to make them less noisy when running and gunning.
A nylon bead replaced the steel detent ball that was eating up the aluminum bolt.
I dremeled a hole in the front grip and secured the old ASA there with two screws, and then attached the X chamber. Braided lines were run and a quick disconnect from my bin was installed near the back ASA to ease disassembly. Three nylon washers were added behind the main spring to give it a bit more smack. The PVC fitting was sanded down and glued into the pipe, then holes were drilled to create a fake suppressor. Black matte spray paint from the garage made a pretty good color match.
I love how much fun this is to shoot. The trigger pull is long and heavy and it sounds like you’d expect a plastic shooter to sound. But it looks cool and is consistent enough. When I take church buddies or my son’s friends to the woods, it always gets taken. The X chamber makes a nice front grip. The long lines and the X chamber give the CO2 plenty of room to expand so it never blows snow. And there are so many tank configurations: standard back bottle, bottomline with bottle facing back, or take off the X chamber and run the bottle facing forward (the ASA is reversible). Or bottle straight into the ASA on front of the trigger.
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