I never said a definitive 3/4 mile; I live in a pretty cut up corner of town that has streets where you'd find alley ways in other parts of town... skinny paved streets intermittently swapped with regular streets. so in the context of REAL CITY BLOCKS, well I don't have that taped out figure. I gues...

These are some pics of a spud gun I've had around for a few years, made from industrial sch-40 300 psi rated; 35 inch by 2 1/2 inch tank. Plenty of power for down-range...5 blocks from my house to the soccer fields, not a problem getting anything there or past. 7 blocks to the hill over-looking the ...

PC: Thanks for the PM about this, as I'd not have seen it probably otherwise. I'm long overdue for contacting Bob about his hunting/fishing lodge... I sent him a PM to call me. I guess you could lock or delete this post, whatever you want, I'm not sure he'll be back on here... on the one hand I was ...

I've checked out the how to's and why for's and listened/read all the hubub about piston design and theory. I think it's high time for this old fart to make an attempt at this bombastic fascination with this valve design. My big thing, though, is, after reading through all the pages and pages of inf...

you're obviously a talented man, Big Ed. Too bad just a side rear shot of your beast. My inquisitive build from a pic mind is frothing at the mouth to see more of this magnificence. If you really did that, I have no doubt about a few other things you either have tried, thought about doing or will en...

Bleu spud boy :Don't know what to say, other than I, personally, have never had ANY problems with the ones that I ran here in the nor'west. We seem to be in similar climates, too. This last one I have is gray w/ yellow, I bought it reconditioned from Doughboys Tool and Pawn 12 years ago, replaced t...

Hmm, well... geez.. haven't check ed the ol'email for a few... Potatoflinger: yeah,youn can get a bad compressor from a pawn shop, but I've not had the experiance of that.Part of it is knowing what you're looking at ,ie about the age ot whatever. tmacd995: Two oiless vs 5 oiled, hmm, not had that pr...

compressors are, like, a really sought after commodity, dude! There are so many different types and styles, it's almost like checking out babe's...usually you only get one, but if you could you'd have more than one... 8) It's interesting that where you live you don't really have pawnshops but you ca...

Pawnshop. go to a pawnshop or three, they usually have really good deals...in fact try to go to one that deals more with tools, like here we have "Doughboy.s Tool and Pawn" where they deal exclusively in tools of ALL kinds; new and used , and take for pawn.,,,

COOL! Something I can say I still know... Don't waste your time with an oiless design for what you're trying to do. Think of it this way: your gun is a pneumatic stapler and you want it to staple as fast as you can run, right ? Well, I always ran a big gas-operated one for spec developements, but ha...

I love you, Mr Crowley, you're one of the fella's I remembnerd right off the bat! Yu're cool, dude! :bigsmurf:

My oldest son says that he made the mistake of getting one of those guide rod valves...he said it drove him mad and pissed him off that he'd wasted his money on it. I vaguely remember having one and making it work but every time I try to remember exactly what I did the screen goes blank...Nick says ...

No war... When I ---rememb-nerd --- this site, I came back to it. It was enjoyable before... and still is, just my opinion. Upon visual of the site, I remembered several peoples handles on here, as well as a few other spud sites. As I said in my "justification" to lament-ushion , amongst the things ...

Shhh, don't interupt me, I'm thinking before my next post...

Lame-n-taushion: I am the father of 6. I have two grandchildren. I joined before pajama boy did. Up until a couple years ago, now, I was a full time general contractor who came upon this site via one of my older son's friends whom I'd had the fortune to overhear telling my son that he was going to m...