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    Posted: 09 August 2007 at 11:09pm
Well, my old potato gun had seen enough so i decided to rebuild.It's not finished yet, i still need to make a cover to hold the BBQ clicker and paint the gun.

Also blew up a birdhouse with a small pvc pipe bomb but can't post pics sorry

Also, do attempt to make one if you hurt yourself its not my fault.

AND if you still decide to make one, please make sure to use schedule 40 and real plumbing pipe cement.

I have made a few of these and the spark plug works great, have any questions feel free to ask.













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air cannons are more consistent, power full, and safer. spud guns are just plain dangerous to
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Build fireworks. I'm starting it now. I just got finished building my ball mill.
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Originally posted by Ben Dover1 Ben Dover1 wrote:

air cannons are more consistent, power full, and safer. spud guns are just plain dangerous to


Been there, done that, boring


I find combustion 10x more fun, this thing clan launch stuff out of sight easily, which is more than enough power.
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Oh, RoboCop, i forgot to tell you but, remember when you told me that you got some powder fromy sticks of dynomite, well the powder as you should know has nitroglyceren and the powder sweats it out, making it extreamyl sensitive to any friction, impact.... if i were you i would make a bomb and light it off right away.
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Originally posted by RoboCop RoboCop wrote:

Build fireworks. I'm starting it now. I just got finished building my ball mill.


Pipe bomb > fire works...just gotta watch out for shrapnel.
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Originally posted by Ghost-Rider Ghost-Rider wrote:

Originally posted by Ben Dover1 Ben Dover1 wrote:

air cannons are more consistent, power full, and safer. spud guns are just plain dangerous to


Been there, done that, boring


I find combustion 10x more fun, this thing clan launch stuff out of sight easily, which is more than enough power.
air cannons if there built right can shoot potato pieces over 300 meters.
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Your insane if your making nitroglycerin, its extremely unstable.However i believe if you mix it with baking soda or something and let it dry it requires a blast to set it off.
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Hmm. Flash powder has nitroglyceron? Seems like having those little dynamites sitting in the sun would cause them to explode. Yah, flash powder is sensitive to friction but nothing has "sweated." By the way, I am probably going to be working more with black powder right now as that is the main ingredient for artilleries.
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Looks nicely built. I prefer my friend's golf ball cannon.
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Another plus with the screw on barrel is i can make different sized barrels, will be making a 3 inch barrel soon


Forgot to say in first post its a 4" chamber and a 2" barrel.
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Way nicer than mine.

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very similar to mine
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Yea, we have made many trying to figure the best ignition source, so far this seems to be very reliable and durable. 
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on mine, the clicker is built into the gun, it pointsout of the back of it
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Oh, you put it on the endcap ? I always toss around my end cap so that wouldn't work, i would end up breaking it.
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nice. i might build something like that over the winter when i have time.

My current cannon has a small chamber and just uses a grill igniter,no spark plug.
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Yea, i still use the clicker from the grill igniter, just use a spark plug because its a bit more heavy duty.
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Originally posted by RoboCop RoboCop wrote:

Hmm. Flash powder has nitroglyceron? Seems like having those little dynamites sitting in the sun would cause them to explode. Yah, flash powder is sensitive to friction but nothing has "sweated." By the way, I am probably going to be working more with black powder right now as that is the main ingredient for artilleries.
umm, dude, flash powder is an entirely different thing, flash powder is way more safe(not safe at all but better than the stuff thats in dynomite). its nitryglicerene mixed with diotomatous earth that makes whats in dynomite, flash powder is potassium percolate and aluminum powder, very simple and safer. black powder is, if im not mistaking, the same as gun powder. So in conclusion, dynomite bad, flash powder not as powerfull but safer, gun powder, safe but not as good as flash powder.

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