"Standard" barrel threads for paintball...

I am a believer that the fewer different barrel threads in paintball the better.

Autococker, although not a great thread in all honesty (for length of gun reasons, and unthreading reasons), has become pretty much a standard in Paintball.

Unfortunately when Budd Orr made Autococker(tm) barrels he never made a technical drawing available to everyone to specify exactly how they should be made, or how the gun's internal receiver for the barrel should be made.

This has led to many different people "having a go" at it with varied success, and unfortunately we have ended up with many different set ups hitting the market such that there have been compatibility issues in the past between what were supposedly "autococker" threaded barrel and "autococker" threaded guns.

We ran into this issue when we made the first models of the Invert Mini. The barrel was a beautiful fit to the gun, but unfortunately some aftermarket barrels didn't fit or were crazy tight because of the slip fit dimensions we set up for the inside of the guns breech.

That led us to measure every gun and barrel we could get our hands on, and come up with a set of dimensions that whilst they annoy the heck out of me from an engineering fit point of view ... should allow guns and barrels made to these dimensions to work with almost all aftermarket barrels and in almost all guns.

Anyway, I am leading a crusade to come up with a standard and single set of dimensions that will work for as many guns and barrls as possible that have already made, and sets a standard for future guns to be made to...

You can help if you have a set of calipers or an opinion on the subject. Please add any barrel or gun dimensions and your opinion to the thread found here....