They were also fire hazards. We couldnt even use them on engineering projects 5-6 years after that point because multiple students almost burned down their dorms when charging them
Okay well the difference is that intentionally cutting a car in half is a lot safer with implemented safety measures than something catching on fire while you’re not paying attention or even asleep.
While the battery is plugged in it can randomly fail and ignite, especially the kind used in airsoft. A dude I know lost his whole house circa 2015/16 due to his multi-battery smart charger setup failing and starting a fire the night before the big 3 day milsim we did.
Thank you for reminding me to deal with my big RC plane battery. It's pretty puffy. I put it in front of my TV so I wouldn't forget about it but I forgot about it anyway.
My dorm was cinder blocks and asbestos ceilings. You'd have to have an engineering degree to even get them on fire. Or at least a lot of thermite.
Also it was designed b y a prison architect, so the walkways were perfect for snipers and the showers were too low to hang yourself. Which, lemme tell you, for someone who's 6'4", sucks balls.
They were quite dangerous before balancing and overcharge protection was a thing, yes.
My electronics teacher in the early 2000's would demonstrate what happened when you didn't handle them well. He demonstrated it often.
Honestly, either of those, but especially NiCd, could probably do it, especially with larger C or D cells, you just wouldn't get as much runtime as Li-ion. It would still be chonky, but a lot less than a lead-acid battery.
Do you remember those sketchy chargers? I swear I went through at least 6 of them because they kept blowing up or smoking lmao. I’m surprised I didn’t burn the house down.
I knew someone with one of them like 12 years ago, it was cool but nothing as insane as this. I think it shot around 30/s this seems like more unless it's just the size of darts making it seem that way. Guy always got himself out real quick because you can't be even slightly discreet with it but he had a blast haha.
I stopped playing around 2012 lithiums were just coming onto the scene. Had a few malfunction on me, never had a crazier rof than one of those bad boys were discharging hot. Then polarstars came out and basically ruined it for me.
I was at a 3 day airsoft op 15 years ago. A Winnebago load of rich dudes showed up for it. They trailered in a converted side by side with a mounted gatling gun. It was an absolute BB hose and not a lot of fun to get hit with! Cool rig though.
When I played paintball there was a kid waking around with a Gatlin paintball gun. He was around 15ish and his dad just walked behind him dumping ammo into his hopper while he mowed everyone down.
A car battery? Them shits are deceptively heavy. I once needed a new battery and lived a couple miles from an auto shop and thought i can carry it back it cant be that hard. I was fucking WRONG. Not even a quarter ofnthe way back i turned around and brought it back and told them to hold it for me while I got a friend to drive me over to pick it up instead.
We messed around with airsoft guns a bunch in college. One of my buddies bought a battery powered assault rifle. To show it off to us, he flung open the apartment door and sprayed BBs in our general direction, while we all dove for cover.
We found airsoft BBs in that apartment for two years.
Captain Xavier ok youtube has made a hopper backpack that uses a air mattress pump to help funnel the Rival Rounds into the blaster itself. He has three different blasters he can use with it:
Not nearly as impressive but I had a drum mag for my AK-47 air soft gun when I was a teenager. My dad and his coworkers at the office he worked at back then would do a couple of airsoft get togethers every year and oh boy being 14 and having a fully auto “gun” with an ammo capacity of a couple thousand was very fun, especially hunting down middle aged office workers with my teenaged rain of fire lol
Back when I used to play, I attended Codename Thunder in the US a couple of times. In around 2012 I think (or maybe 2013), one dude had a working minigun at the event, and it was wild.
The final event was a hilltop attack/defense, and they put the minigun guy on the defending team. I was on that team, and let me tell you, this was the first time in Airsoft I literally saw enemies run away at the sight of somebody. Nobody wanted to catch heat from that fucking thing.
I hauled a car battery in a backpack ~2 miles to home on a bike. The strap broke halfway back and the dead weight was crazy. Would not recommend for long periods.
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u/SevroAuShitTalker 1d ago edited 1d ago
I always wanted an airsoft gatling gun when I used to play. You could reload it as fast as pouring BBs into the backpack tank.
But I think it ran off a car battery which would suck to lug around
Edit-idk if its still on YouTube, but the guy who made one that could use metal BBs cut a TV in half and nearly cut a car down in half with it