I am surprised that no one has mentioned the fact that water expands when frozen.. So if you are saying that a "budget" paintball could contain enough water in it to freeze.. wouldn't it crack the shell due to expansion? Unless you guys are using paintballs that are only half full..cause ya know i am sure they make those..yup
As far as the glass breaking issue goes... Everyone does realize that every single piece of glass has a weakspot right? Home, Automotive, Chicken coop...doesn't matter. So yeah 100 shots might not break the glass but that 101st??? who knows.
You could take the time an take a pin and push it through the shell and empty the paint inside and fill it part way with water but not to much so it dont expand an crack the shell. then after the water freezes carefull put the paint back in somehow. Then you could take a "frozen" paintball and break that "window".
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You could take the time an take a pin and push it through the shell and empty the paint inside and fill it part way with water but not to much so it dont expand an crack the shell. then after the water freezes carefull put the paint back in somehow. Then you could take a "frozen" paintball and break that "window".
Do NOT give me ideas like that...
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you wouldnt need half full paint to freeze it, the shells are not glass, they do expand
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don't get me wrong, but the paintballs that arrive here are low quality. i mean, the shells don't break from a fall of 4-5 feet. and when i was younger i put some paintballs in my home freezer and used to shot them with a slingshot. never got ice block hard. never broke a window. and the shell got softer due to the humidity in the freezer, so the interior wasn't frozen, the shell was very fragile and it used to break with nothing.
people here think paintballers are "vandals" (IDK if its correctly spelled) because the ones that have markers, usually shoot the traffic signs. and thus people thinks that paintballs can be frozen, and thats why the impact it's so hard.
probably they were shooting little coconuts(corozos) or even marbles....
i wouldn't try that last one. :¬¬:
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and the shell got softer due to the humidity in the freezer, the shell was very fragile and it used to break with nothing.
im confused, how was the shell soft yet fragile at the same time?
normally paint wont break from a 4-5 foot fall (repeaditively sure but not just once) sounds like whatever paint you have its decent enoufgh, the super low quality stuff is the only stuff that will have enoufgh water in it to freeze, alot of paint is based off a anti-freeze solution
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The reason it gets all soft like a gummy bear is that the recipe for shell and a gummy bear are almost the same. Paintballs are made (atleast Diablo/Draxxus) are made with the gummy bear recipe shell, and the filling is made from the inert non-medicinal syrup for cough medicine and crayon wax. Thats it. Thats why most paintballs don't completely freeze.
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A myth that really bugs me is that people think paintballs can break windows
I didnt think paintballs would break a window until I was shooting my gun at the wall in my shed, and I got carried away and hit the window, SMASH, no more window. Still haven't told the 'rents. hehe... (this was right after I upgraded to an e-grip on my x7)
I didnt think paintballs would break a window until I was shooting my gun at the wall in my shed, and I got carried away and hit the window, SMASH, no more window. Still haven't told the 'rents. hehe... (this was right after I upgraded to an e-grip on my x7)
I went over this with a civil engineer (buddy of mine at work) and he showed me the kind of calculation a civil engineer would have to do to determine whether a paintball could break a window or not, after not understanding half of what he was writing on the whiteboard, he explained it to me like i was a 5 year old.
Bottom line is that it can but it'll depend on the thickness, surface area and composition of the glass, plus how it's anchored (frame or screws, that kind of thing. It also depends on the angle, speed and location the paintball hits it at.
In few words, to get a break, you want a relatively thin sheet of poor quality glass with not too much or too little surface area and anchored at the 4 corners, not held completely at the sides. Oh and you want to hit it dead center at a perfectly perpendicular angle.
so to sum it up, can it? yes, will it? that depends on the variables
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just like the glass at an ice rink... they can take hundreds of shots.. and then one finds the weak sport at the right angle and BOOM!! little bits of tempered glass everywhere..
you wouldnt need half full paint to freeze it, the shells are not glass, they do expand
yeah but then the paintball would go from .68 and expand to about .90 cal kinda a problem you would need to expermet to make sure the paintball can go throw the barrel
Ok i just got freeezing paintballs they were in the freezer for a week inside a pod so moisture isnt taken from the shell. I took off the hopper and hand loaded them so i could see if they chopped and so i could take out the dented 1's there were only 3 dented out of 20. I shot em at a piece of plyqood and the paint doesnt freeze it just gets thicker. I shot from 5 feet away and the balls made a dent in the wood and my normal paintballs didnt so frozed paintballs do hit harder. And i took the dented 1s and hit them with a hammed to c if it would break. If broke easier than an unfrozen 1 and the paint was a lot thicker. The frozen paint DOESNT break in the barrel and i ised three different brand name paints and 1 was tournament grade
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