How paintballs are made
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 05:30:10
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 2 pages (440 words)
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 2 pages (440 words)
Paintballs are made entirely of non-toxic, food grade ingredients. To make the hallow shell; water is poured into a giant, heated mixing bowl. A sweetener, a preservative and a secret combination of food ingredients are then added. Finally, the key ingredient that gives the shell its shape - gelatin - is introduced.
All the ingredients are mixed together for around half an hour before the gel is transferred from the mixer into a heated vat …
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…the capsulation machine, one colour for each half of the shell.
Finished paintballs go through a precision, automatic-counting machine. Manufacturing this messy ammunition may be a "paint-staking" process, but is well worth the effort given the many thousands of people who love the game of paintball.
Invented just 20 years ago, paintball's caught on in more than 40 countries worldwide, so it seems the factories chumming the balls out will be busy for some time to come.
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