if friction is the problem with bullpup triggers, why don't they just use a hydraulic tube?

if friction is the problem with bullpup triggers, why don't they just use a hydraulic tube?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >air bleed screw undoes itself
    >your trigger leaks all over your pyjamas
    great idea

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Fluids still experience friction.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Hydraulics experience so little friction in a system that small that it doesn't really factor in. The entire point of hydraulics is the ability to transmit force with minimal loss.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Hydraulic systems as you're thinking of them are actively pressurized via motorized pump. Frictional losses scale with force and exposed area; losses are proportionally minimal because the force is many magnitudes higher than the area corresponding to the fluid-channel interface. They still experience friction, and unless OP is taping a hydraulic pump to his handguard that's something he has to deal with.
        >alternatively nano-sized hydraulic passages, I guess, but that's just a different kind of materials engineering problem

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Squeeze wienering. Hydraulic resevoir in grip. No saftey needed, dead trigger when not gripped.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Hydraulic systems as you're thinking of them are actively pressurized via motorized pump
          I think OP meant something more like the MAGURA hydraulic rim brakes for bicycles. Do those stll exist anymore or have they been replaced by disc brakes? I'm OOTL.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Unironically test and patent that if it works

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    wouldn't that give you the worst, squishiest trigger of all time?

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Somehow keltec solved it.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Leaks and utter unreliability.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Not true for the hydraulic bicycle brakes I mentioned in my post above. Although a big problem might be that the hydraulic piston can get stuck to the cylinder a tiny little bit after it hasnt been used for a long time, that might make the trigger hard to control

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >unreliability.
      I find it fascinating that this is always the argument against new stuff, and it is always proven wrong, in the end. people forget that just 10 years ago, the AR was a shit platform that had to have super high end parts and be greased with unicorn cum to function correctly. now any clapped together franken psa build will run with the best of them. hell, grunts run around with Samsung galaxy's strapped to their chests and 10k worth of electronic optics. soon they'll be integrated power rails.
      a hydraulic trigger is the least of concerns here.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Idea Guys Inc. called, you're hired

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you are going to do a crazy hydraulic design why not just use electricity. Have the trigger be a switch. You can make it feel however you want. Hell you could probably make the battery last a month before you need to replace it depending on the firing mechanism.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >probably make the battery last a month
      *laughs in piezoelectric*

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        BBQ lighter triggers are fine for spud guns but miss me with putting one on a rifle!

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Same reason hydraulics are relegated to very specific used nowadays: maintenance and cost.

    A simple hydraulic like the one in chairs won't cut it for the constant pressure changes.

    Then you have really cheap hydraulics like the ones used in some ventriloquist toys, which have really shitty seals.

    Then you get the really expensive hydraulic links, and now you have the problem of actually getting them to fit in the gun.

    Honestly the original problem could be easily fixed if bullpup makers just had the balls to add a few more millimeters of room so they can use better trigger links.

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