oakman26
About as smart and adept as a pile of turds

Van's not doing anything interesting, just politely saying he doesn't deserve a perma

Well, not using the ball valve is the main issue. if you wanted it to fire with a trigger you either need to use a solenoid valve and an electric trigger or a solenoid valve modified to be a diaphragm valve (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PKVyzV0aGU) and an airgun trigger. As for needing a compressor or not, you would need one unless you could get a CO2 bottle, regulator, and associated fittings like I have for my flamethrower and mortars.

Kobalt makes a nice CO2 rig that uses paintball CO2 bottle and works reasonably well for cannons (Though not for strafers since the air flow is too low), you can get them at Lowes or Home Depot.

I never left the airsoft forum. And once they got to know me (mostly over Steam) it didn't seem like they thought I was so bad. You wouldn't know that, though, sitting in your mom's basement posting rude messages in my profile page.

Right now I'm currently banned from any local games due to corrupt admins and/or favoritism, so it's kind of not really one of my priorities to follow airsoft as closely as before.