In article <fc7ld.57484$EZ.33888@okepread07>, [email protected] says...
> Ever build a carbide or acetylene cannon. We did at age 10 or 11 - Awesome!
>
With an old Ford coil to fire it?
We finally made one that used black powder and fired beer cans. Took a
whole weeks allowance (50 cents) to buy the powder for two shots :-).
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Fri, Nov 12, 2004, 4:16pm (EST-3) [email protected]
(Larry=A0Blanchard) claims:
We finally made one that used black powder and fired beer cans. Took a
whole weeks allowance (50 cents) to buy the powder for two shots :-)
But, then it was not a carbide cannon.
And, if you only got two shots, you must have really been using an
excessive amount of powder, especially just firing beer cans.
JOAT
Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
- Publilius Syrus
"RonB" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Are you really going to put a potato or pneumatic cannon in it?
>
>
> I did note from you site you are planning on shooting foam plugs from
> the gun. Just remember kids are accomplished at finding other ways to
> use an item.
>
> Ever build a carbide or acetylene cannon. We did at age 10 or 11 -
> Awesome!
>
>
>
Every parking lot an armory! Every vehicle a potato cannon! At age 8, we
were stuffing potatos in exhaust pipes. The results were somewhat random.
Very nice project. I am sure you son will enjoy it as much as you did
putting it together.
Are you really going to put a potato or pneumatic cannon in it? Those
things can pack one hell of a whallop - even fatal! A friend of mine built
one from PVC that was fueled by hair spray and sparked with a butane match.
I watched him shoot a potato at an empty 55 gallon drum one day. It moved
the drum about two feet and caved the side in pretty well. He could launch
tubers 500 - 600 feet.
That would take care of the refreshment table at the next pool party.
J T wrote:
> Fri, Nov 12, 2004, 12:15pm (EST-1) [email protected] (RonB) muttered:
> Very nice project. I am sure you son will enjoy it as much as you did
> putting it together. <snip>
>
> Who you talking to? I'm just curious, because that's not my
> project, I just posted the link. If I put something like that together,
> it'd be for me, not my kids.
>
>
>
> JOAT
> Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
> - Publilius Syrus
>
And it would have to be a little bit bigger huh Joatski?
Philski
Fri, Nov 12, 2004, 7:52pm (EST-2) [email protected] (philski)
says:
And it would have to be a little bit bigger huh Joatski?
Prolably no more so then for the rest of you. On the other hand,
1/4 scale...
JOAT
Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
- Publilius Syrus
Fri, Nov 12, 2004, 12:15pm (EST-1) [email protected] (RonB) muttered:
Very nice project. I am sure you son will enjoy it as much as you did
putting it together. <snip>
Who you talking to? I'm just curious, because that's not my
project, I just posted the link. If I put something like that together,
it'd be for me, not my kids.
JOAT
Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
- Publilius Syrus
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:15:38 -0600, "RonB" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Very nice project. I am sure you son will enjoy it as much as you did
>putting it together.
>
>Are you really going to put a potato or pneumatic cannon in it? Those
>things can pack one hell of a whallop - even fatal! A friend of mine built
>one from PVC that was fueled by hair spray and sparked with a butane match.
>I watched him shoot a potato at an empty 55 gallon drum one day. It moved
>the drum about two feet and caved the side in pretty well. He could launch
>tubers 500 - 600 feet.
>
>That would take care of the refreshment table at the next pool party.
>
we used to make firecracker guns... I quit when I knocked a few boards
out of the back fence with one and got grounded for about 10 years..
roflmao
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:03:40 -0500, [email protected] (J T)
calmly ranted:
>http://www.gizmology.net/tanks.htm
>
> I noticed this has been updated.
Excellent! I can see how he got the "Best Dad" awards.
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