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I have mentioned this before but the traditional hairspray method only generates about 20psi where if you use compressed air you can safely go up to 100 psi.
If you are looking for more thump.
Also a lower IR signature
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See?
Problem solvers here.
Problem solvers here.
Could you rig a system that injects a specific amount of liquid accelerant, then compress it ?
You could, the compression would result in a much faster burn rate. But for a potato gun the compression would push the potato out so you would need some kind of valve that would have to open just as ignition takes place. All to complicated for something whose strength is being able to be made from a few bits from a hardware store. The one in the video just uses a sink plunger, few extra PVC fittings and a ball valve you can see in the back. It is counterintuitive that the ball valve lets air out of the back but that is just acting as a trigger that creates a pressure differential that rapidly opens an internal valve made from the sink plunger.
So how much psi can you get with a bicycle pump ?
No spark also means potatoes soaked in the flammable liquid of your choice will not ignite. So there is that to consider.
However if flaming projectiles are not "safe" then a glow stick shoved into a potato makes a pretty cool tracer spud.
whoa whoa whoa, hold on a sec
I brought this topic up specifically to deal with russian supporting nazis and their beautiful, unbreached, and as of yet, non-ignited windshields in germany. This is no time for the heroics of captain osha.
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It would be just as fun to go old-school with a pumpkin trebuchet.
We made one like that in college. The trick is cutting the potato to fit the id of the PVC so it's just about airtight but will still slide.
can I poop in the pumpkin?
That's why you chamfer the end of the barrel and whack the potato with a mallet then push it the rest of the way down with a broom handle. Cuts a perfect air tight plug every time.
Can go all the way up to the rated pressure of the pipe, 100 psi. You are just going to get a hard work out in the process.
The design for that came from a senior design project. Had to make a machine that played golf. Made a little air cannon that could lob a golf ball 10 feet or send it 700 yards. The only difference from what I showed in the video was that we had an aluminum barrel inserted into the PVC to get the bore the same size as a golf ball. At 100 psi the ball would break the sound barrier. No idea how far it went as we could never find where it landed but it only took about 25psi to go 700 yards.
Dammit, I need a machine shop.
If you only had GPS then to paint the targets for hole-in -ones…
When I worked at RIM Cyclery in Moab (‘92?), they loved getting drunk and seeing how far they could shoot potatoes down the street on Sunday. It was really a plumbing/metal shop that sold bikes…
When I worked at RIM Cyclery in Moab (‘92?), they loved getting drunk and seeing how far they could shoot potatoes down the street on Sunday. It was really a plumbing/metal shop that sold bikes…
dammit I need to camp out in your driveway
Wouldn’t some golf-ball snipery be more fun?
He is welcome to stay in my basement any time.
Well, he will have company, they just don’t talk much.
I keep this guy in case I ever build another tater cannon. Except I don't really use potatoes. Mostly apples but pears have a good shape and density for sending mass down range. Went this route after logging the spark in hairspray a few too many times with stationary ignitors. Never had any issues with distance.
I always wanted to work out a break barrel cannon so I didn't need to pack a tamping rod or thread the lid on the back with every shot.
I always wanted to work out a break barrel cannon so I didn't need to pack a tamping rod or thread the lid on the back with every shot.
I could be inspired to build if boostindoublesland is agricultural artillery friendly. Could reload on the way to the parking.
We grow ammo on trees around here.
My source tells me you have oxygen tanks
And likely some ammo-nia
Sniffers always use up their own and end up trying to get yours.
‘Sniffers’ would be a good name for a cat.
When they're going for liquid, that's when you know they're pros.
If between 15 and 33% vapor / air ratio ammonia goes boom pretty well. Lets build an ammonia powered tater cannon, said no one ever.
A man of culture! Trebuchet is the gentleman's siege weapon.
I think the best thing would be to spray a nice mist of said ether on those nice windshields then ignite. Possibly followed with a few cocktails to spice things up a bit.
Meanwhile in russia, the official party line is that Ukraine is more dangerous to humankind than nazi Germany and Hitler.
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Что Россия должна сделать с Украиной
Еще в апреле прошлого года мы писали о неизбежности денацификации Украины. Нацистская, бандеровская Украина, враг России и инструмент Запада по уничтожению... РИА Новости, 05.04.2022
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Fuck Russia.Meanwhile in russia, the official party line is that Ukraine is more dangerous to humankind than nazi Germany and Hitler.
Что Россия должна сделать с Украиной
Еще в апреле прошлого года мы писали о неизбежности денацификации Украины. Нацистская, бандеровская Украина, враг России и инструмент Запада по уничтожению... РИА Новости, 05.04.2022
Hopefully this sadist gets butchered in a remarkably painful way soon
Just an fyi before you requisition this year’s entire potato harvest as ammunition and have nothing left for freedom fries: you’re dealing with 400 vehicles and not 5000 like Westy‘s tweet mentioned.
What are the odds for Russian generals currently of being taken out? 4:1?Hopefully this sadist gets butchered in a remarkably painful way soon
While at a level this shit's amusing, there have been thousands murdered, raped, and tortured by the Russians. I don't think that jokes are appropriate.
There is an entire page of the thread making jokes about the retribution for this demonstration and I have pointed that the tweet this is based on is off by more than a factor of 10. Yes , I adopted the tone used previously but I haven’t seen you complain about any of the prior posts.
I'm not aiming at you personally, and the comment applies to the prior posts. I don't think that flippancy is appropriate in this topic, but that's just my opinion. I was having trouble getting to sleep last night due to the horror of what the Russians are doing.