The impulse command should also have a nice put away animation.

Thanks so much Waffles

Was it only by dreaming a spring assisted knives that I could find out what I thought?
Joan Didion

goderick wrote:
I have a system which drops the player into a weapon stripper, but it still keeps the left click for blue portal thing on screen, so is there a way that means the player doesn't spawn with the gun?

You could always disable the crosshair (crosshair 0) OR find the culprit for the portal gun giving. The latter has been discussed before.

Short explanation: the portalgun is given to you automatically through Valve's transition script. The transition script also teleports the player to the elevator and starts the descend. Using custom elevators are a good way to go, because that way it doesn't rely on 'static' valve scripts.