This project started with the sole desire to do the trilogy autococker justice. I love automated cocking guns and when I first saw the Palmer Blazer I could hardly breathe it was so cool. Years later the trilogy came out as a budget junker gun with numerous shortcomings but the makings of a great platform. There have been a few nice trilogies over the years but none that really seemed to embody what the trilogy could easily be: one of the best autococker variants ever made. The pneumatics are super serviceable, low profile, reliable and light weight. The design is integrated without being troublesome to manage, and has all the desirable traits of a good autococker.
This has been a long (and stupid) journey that started with a full effort attempt on my part to do the work on my own. It ended in calamity when the person I was working with basically sawed the entire trilogy body in half. Sometime in 2019 or 2018 Doc was looking for a set of raw inception pneumatics which he had missed when they were on sale and needed for a project. I asked if he would machine an empire-spec feedneck that is actually lower than the barrel, while mid blocking the gun and a few other simple cuts to integrate the frame better and also to lighten the frame itself. His artistry filled in the gaps of my poor description.
The desire was to make the "Holy Trilogy" everything the original trilogy should have been. Almost all of the components are straight off the shelf.
Here it is fresh back from Caustic anodizing, in a polished clear.
It's designed to take resurrection spec midblock components, and is equipped with standard resurrection sled, bolt, and pin.
Cut down and rethreaded freeflow titanium pump rod
CCM Valve,
CCM Hammer
CCM Mainspring
CCM IVG
Shocktech lightweight spyder mainspring as valve spring
AKALMP original 2 liter anodized to match
AKALMP Hardened trigger plate
AKALMP Hardened sear
ANS trigger frame
Doc's delrin ball detent
WGP pneumatics. I considered using a PPS LPR but I like the hose routing bracket on the stock LPR and adjusting it is super easy as you just pop off the house and screw the thing out..and it never needs to be adjusted.
The CCM guts allow the gun to have a super low cocking force, so the LPR is set very low to the point where its almost mechanically impossible to chop even if you're the worst short stroker in the world. There are a lot of little tricks that went into the gun but it pretty much just looks like it was all meant to be.
Regarding the timing adjustment, I have a tech T timing rod that I was going to use to measure the best timing, and then bend a stock timing rod to an ideal fixed position, because I wanted to avoid having the bulky stainless nut in my way. I found that the stock timing rod was excellent. I adjusted it backwards slightly by flattening the timing rod end in a press which shortened the pull and reduced the distance the trigger plate had to move before engaging the switch.
And here it is finished.
Added video: https://youtu.be/AkqGZZHHVo8
Original pictures:
This has been a long (and stupid) journey that started with a full effort attempt on my part to do the work on my own. It ended in calamity when the person I was working with basically sawed the entire trilogy body in half. Sometime in 2019 or 2018 Doc was looking for a set of raw inception pneumatics which he had missed when they were on sale and needed for a project. I asked if he would machine an empire-spec feedneck that is actually lower than the barrel, while mid blocking the gun and a few other simple cuts to integrate the frame better and also to lighten the frame itself. His artistry filled in the gaps of my poor description.
The desire was to make the "Holy Trilogy" everything the original trilogy should have been. Almost all of the components are straight off the shelf.
Here it is fresh back from Caustic anodizing, in a polished clear.
It's designed to take resurrection spec midblock components, and is equipped with standard resurrection sled, bolt, and pin.
Cut down and rethreaded freeflow titanium pump rod
CCM Valve,
CCM Hammer
CCM Mainspring
CCM IVG
Shocktech lightweight spyder mainspring as valve spring
AKALMP original 2 liter anodized to match
AKALMP Hardened trigger plate
AKALMP Hardened sear
ANS trigger frame
Doc's delrin ball detent
WGP pneumatics. I considered using a PPS LPR but I like the hose routing bracket on the stock LPR and adjusting it is super easy as you just pop off the house and screw the thing out..and it never needs to be adjusted.
The CCM guts allow the gun to have a super low cocking force, so the LPR is set very low to the point where its almost mechanically impossible to chop even if you're the worst short stroker in the world. There are a lot of little tricks that went into the gun but it pretty much just looks like it was all meant to be.
Regarding the timing adjustment, I have a tech T timing rod that I was going to use to measure the best timing, and then bend a stock timing rod to an ideal fixed position, because I wanted to avoid having the bulky stainless nut in my way. I found that the stock timing rod was excellent. I adjusted it backwards slightly by flattening the timing rod end in a press which shortened the pull and reduced the distance the trigger plate had to move before engaging the switch.
And here it is finished.
Added video: https://youtu.be/AkqGZZHHVo8
Original pictures:
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