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I talked at length with him about his new proto type. Its an Inline Popit similar to the marq but its driven in a very different way. His Goal was a marker under 1lb, this one is just a hair over without trigger, battery and board. As for release date? We were discussing something like maybe two years more development.
This works really nothing like the older Aedies prototype and we talked about that too. Beyond the MQ problem that everyone knows about their were other hurdles he had to overcome with the design. What he said we loved about the design was the high CPS the marker could achieve (around 100) but that the new direction he was headed was the inline popit. I think the reason the regulator (which would be on the base of the grip frame) and the trigger/board were missing has more to keep other companies from giving him grief. From what I could see the frame was made to take parts that exist on the market today, mainly an Axe or mini Reg. Which he said he would be changing out for his own design latter, but mentioned that it would have to be a meaty regulator to have the surface area required to keep it consistent. So much similar in size to the Axe Reg.
I was excited about the new valve, it seemed pretty simple and easy to maintain. The back half of the assembly looked like it "could be" (because I really couldn't see it) a fasor type ram/bolt sail assembly with a rather large popit in front of it fallowed by the ventury bolt. All packed neatly into a tube no larger than the bolt. The detentes were just a couple he had hanging around.
I love the idea of it. Hope it gets decent efficiency. I couldn't tell you if he had volumizers in either of the front or back grip frame as they were both closed up but if it were similar to the G6R's that would give it some of the needed volume to get decent numbers.
So yeah that's what we talked about.
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