Four Days from drawing to product! (Patreon)

One fun bit from my Thanksgiving week (hope yours were fun, too!)

Over on one of the paintball boards, some regulars were lamenting the fact that a certain part called a cup seal, for an antique marker called a Mega-Z, was no longer available, and without it, the gun wouldn't work anymore.

I have one of them, so on the 21st, I cracked it open, made some measurements of the offending part, ordered some appropriate O-rings, and when they came in on the 25th, sat down to program the lathe to make the brass part.

By the evening of the 25th, after a fair bit of trial-and-error, I had a finished prototype installed in my marker, which worked perfectly.

Doesn't make for the most exciting video, and sure isn't a product I'm gonna get rich on, but on the other hand, didn't cost me a lot of time or materials, and helps keep some classic old markers on the field. :)

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