Calvin's POP 2026 Build

[Calvin]

My ancient bandsaw blade snapped this far from completing the second trigger.

[Calvin]

As usual in these types of endeavours, I had to sand down a washer to get the last one in to center it.

[Calvin]

The profile of the 2nd one feels better to me.

[Calvin]

Cap printed and adjusted. Gotta get that sliver of light under the rocket or the Enmey isn't happy.



This was worth the time. The thing is even more of a paint hose now. The flex of the trigger going in and releasing is gone. Not hearing as much chuffing, which should be attributable to that. Hopefully that results in a little more efficiency.

[StaticShocked]

Looks great! You beat me to the aluminum trigger. It is good to know that it will make the difference i was thinking it would. I like the idea of the plastic shoe for the rocket. I need to get on it and make one. I repaired my belt sander last night just for that reason.

[FlightMedic938]

I used a large vacuum cap from Auto Zone as a trigger shoe on my Tippmann Raider when it was mech. Worked great. The Raider is a lot like the Enmey

[Calvin]

Belt Sander? Aggressive!! I like it.

[StaticShocked]

No band saw at home so i was going to roughly shape it with the bench top belt sander then go to metal files and a vice to finish the shape.

[Calvin]

Reflex0283 has PMed me with the possibility of him plasma cutting a run of them out of slightly thicker stock. I neednto have a
.dxf file of the shape for that to happen. I have a nice pencil on white paper tracing of the 2nd one. Do you have any idea how to get that into dxf? I assume the plasma cutter is a 2D process.

[Reflex0283]

Calvin it's a 2D file, I could also just make it myself and then it's not your problem at all lol

[Magmoormaster]

The metal trigger is very cool, but I'm somewhat confused. Why are you using a 3d printed cap instead of integrating it into the trigger itself?

[Calvin]

Because adjustment of the cap is much easier. I can make changes on the pc and print out a new cap in 8 minutes. I dont need the trigger out to change caps, so I can remove and replace the cap to do fine adjustments via sanding. I would rather have the trigger standardised and the caps adjustable.