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Definately NOT! I have compared both bladders, so I know what I am talking about: The Mk1 bladder is softer and expands there more. If you cut off the Mk2 bladder you will only get less PC volume, so just useless.

And here we get the 250 ml more PC volume. SInce the Mk1 bladder do expand more, there is more useable space in the PC casing. The Mk2 bladder expands not as much as the mk1, therefore you need more "base-bladder-lengh" to get the same PC, but the "base-lengh" needs space. And talking of the CPS 2000 Mk1 and mk2 this is the reason for the 250 ml PC volume difference. The MK1 bladder is even a bit SHORTER but expands MORE

But keep in mind that 250 ml is not much, so the difference is a short laugh

Furthermore we have to consider following thing: If we want a big stream with best range(50+) we will need two things :

Pressure and volume

The Mk1 bladder do contract faster than any other bladders, only this way we get a strong and steady stream with 50 + range. When we open the firing valve and we loose pressure, the bladder's contraction is there to keep the pressure stable. But the bigger the output/s the faster the bladder must expand to keep up the range. Speaking of the CPS 2000 ' nozzle we have a stream size where the mk2 bladder contracts just a bit too slow, other than the mk1, which expands just fast enough.

Therefore, using the BIG BALL VALVE of the HC, it is BETTER to use the mk1 bladder than the Mk2, since the mk1 contracts faster, which ends up in a great recoil and powerful stream

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Hi great membership.

I have just made a big VIDEO of my modded hydro Cannon! It would be great if you could watch it, subscribe on youtube and tell me what you think of it


Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zmu03nBME4

Enjoy...

Not a fan of the music, haha. Nice vid and mods though. I'd still have to recommend some sort of nozzle, but it seems to get close to 2000 performance as is.

The problem is, this isn't really a hydro cannon anymore. You can't really modify the thing using only parts from it. You have to have a spare bladder in order for the HC to be worthwhile.

This is quite right, but usually you always need some additional materials when modifying a blaster. May the original bladder would expand well, when removed from casing but I wanted to save the whole thing. This way I can also reconstruct the original in less than an hour.

But this was not the main reason why I added a CPS 2k Mk1 bladder and removed the original one. I want to build up kind of hydroblitz and this should be the "burst" PC , also the 2k mk1 bladder seems to be the perfect bladder for this job^^

@ CA99 It is VERY difficult to find a music that fits together with such a video^^ Took me hours till I have chosen this music

I will put on further videos, of CPS 1000, CPS 1500(modded version), CPS 3200, Hydroblitz and my two CPHs soon

You can just get LRT or try balloons if you don't have an extra bladder to give up for it; its not that hard to do so.

I guess we just have different tastes in music lol. And I'll leave it at that.

If you can film some wars, that be cool too. Not a lot of wars get filmed, though I'll be looking into doing so myself for this summer. (Need to plug in a digital camera to a power source or get a webcam, and put it over a window as a "security camera" type of setup.)

soakernerd wrote:so would it be possible to cut off the end of the bladder and turn a mk2 into a mk 1?

well, yes and no. if you were to cut the bladder to the point where it would make a significant difference in power, the overall volume would decrease (due to the smaller bladder), thus little improvement would be made.

example: say you cut the bladder so it could push the water out faster, which takes ~7 oz. off the total volume. now you still only have 23 oz. coming out the nozzle, so little improvement was made over it's original 20x nozzle.

The point of cutting the back of the bladder is to allow it to expand more.

Greetings from Sweden.

I am new here and just bought myself a Hydro Cannon, 2 Thunderstorms and 1 Tornado Strike.

Alot of what has been mentioned in this thread is interesting and the parts I do not have. But I am thinking of a backpack with a quick connect to the factory
reservoir. This I think I can handle. But what about removing the pump and adding an external compressed air canister? Has anyone done this? Is it possible and what is the max PSI before this burst?

/Tedd

That's not going to do anything for pretty much any blaster, and if you're going to do something like that, you should probably build a homemade entirely for that.

Teddan wrote: But what about removing the pump and adding an external compressed air canister?

The pump in a Hydro Cannon moves water, not air, so this idea would not work. What would be intriguing would be to see someone replace the Hydro Cannon's pump with a larger, more robust system that allows full pressurization with fewer strokes. As it is now, the HC requires ~20 pumps to fully pressurize, which is pretty funny when you think about how the small the total output is. And by funny I mean lame. And by lame I mean very sad and unfortunate. But not without potential!

I have to say, I am loving the Hydro Cannon the more and more I use it. Sure, it might not stack up against better, older blasters, but I think it has a ton of promise, especially when compared to the rest of Garbage-Fest 2011. I look forward to whatever modifications you perform on this blaster!

Well ,this is the only thing I am disappointed now after so much mods. The 20 ml/ stroke means that yoiu have to pump it about 50 times for a full blast on my HC.... I drilled out the intake tube to the maximum( if the pipe is getting thinner, it will break off I think) to improve the flow when you "suck" the water into the pump. THis way you can pump twice as fast as usual with less power(and mine has to suck the water from the backpack^^). But the weak pump volume makes this blaster a bit kamikaze-like gun. After the blast you need much time to pump 50 times, which means someone has t run and flee. YOu cannot compet with a gun like the CPS 2500, for sure not, but just because of the lame ml / stroke.

I will replace the pump and get a volume of 80 ml or so, but at the moment I am doing other things and the time is not enough to do this at the moment May on the weekend But I will let you know when I made another improvement^^

@GJIV: My main thought after reading all this and seeing the achievements so far is for you to consider formalizing the various modifications you've made into articles for the wiki! Don't worry too much about perfect English spelling or grammar; those can be fixed. You still speak better English than I can speak German! *hah*

Anyhow, just a thought to consider!

isoaker wrote:@GJIV: My main thought after reading all this and seeing the achievements so far is for you to consider formalizing the various modifications you've made into articles for the wiki!

You seem to read my thoughts^^ I was also thinking about this since I do modify so much and my work is really great! People should have a guide so they can do this too ! You can make such a beast out of a XP 310...o well ! If there is some more free-time I will go and add some articles to the wiki ! Promised

isoaker wrote:@GJIV: You still speak better English than I can speak German! *hah*

Hm I do not know how much you know about the german language and how well you can speak this^^ As those "bad language-words" are not really in my word-case they do not count here^^ Have a try, tell me/write something useful in german language !