Nova reinventing the 3 way?

[Blackmagic71]

Certainly seems interesting.

[William the Third]

This is one of the things Chris mentioned to me on the phone when I talked to him in early July. I'm happy to see someone working on bringing new ideas to cockers.


Also, maybe it's just deja vu, but I could have swore I made this post yesterday?

[SR_matt]

I saw Nova confirm it is a swing frame only at this time. they said they are working on a way to make it work with a slider and say they are working on a "compatible slide frame in the future".

I am not an engineer but to me that makes me suspect the spool system is a dump chamber type spool with out a constant air feed to the activate position.

[UThomas]

It’s for sale solo now for $80

[Cdn_Cuda]

I’m eyeballing this for a purchase but have concerns if I have enough room beside my Tickler LPR.

[steed]

The swing makes sense, it pushes the spool... Never mind looked at it again, the air chamber is already in bound. I'd also like to know how the air vents, seems like you'd have the same issue of the solenoid being too fast to vent air slowing the ram.

[zinger565]

I wonder how this could be used to mech markers that were previously hard to mech due to being dwell dependent.

[Psycho91]

Anybody try a single hinge yet

[SR_matt]

I wonder how this could be used to mech markers that were previously hard to mech due to being dwell dependent.

I don't think will work on anything that doesn't have a metered dump chamber. The videos ive seen it seems that this trigger valve/5 way/whatever name it looks like you can still hold the trigger down and the back block stays back. The big change is that once it triggers it will fully cycle.

[FDwarrior]

This is so cool, I love that people are still inventing with the autococker platform

[Hp_lovecraft]

I wonder if its an off-the-shelf item at parker or pneumatdyne. Dual piloted spool valves are in the catalogs, but often things need a bit of tweaking to take the abuse we do in paintball

[jetenginekyle]

So in order to get my lpr to fit i had to use the bench grinder a bit and I have noticed some metallic flakes have reached the ram. The 3 way seems to need very high pressures to cycle other wise it just puffs.

Anybody else have to run there lpr pressure pretty high to get it to cycle? or is it just me?

[jetenginekyle]

Cdn_Cuda Not sure about the nova front block. The one that fit but touched as a system x and the one thats too tight was wgp.

Im using a clippard mar-1p as other than novas its the skinniest I've found, and it's only $26 https://www.clippard.com/part/MAR-1P

[Cdn_Cuda]

jetenginekyle. Good to know. I’m a long way off ordering a valve at this point. My main mech cocker runs an ID Rip frame (Strike1) and uses a centre mount LPR (System X) both meaning the Nova valve won’t work. Guess it’s an excuse for a new cocker build.

[jetenginekyle]

so i swapped the lpr to my other one by mounting it under the front block using a 90*. Looots of room now as expected also took apart the 3way to make sure there was no metal flakes and there were none, re-lubed it anyways.

Happy to report its easy to service but would strongly recommend not doing so at the field as there are 4 teeny tiny pieces that if dropped outdoors would be gone forever.

Out of air to see if that made a difference but doubt it did.