As a REALLY good project, perhaps build the thing using a chainsaw motor. Pick up a scrap one for scrap metal prices, less than a buck. With that you get a fully machined action, with a firing mechanism (spark plug) built right in. For under a dollar US. Have all the moving parts (basically) already...

[quote="Hotwired"]Very uncool to edit a quote to give it a different meaning or to cut out the long words which gave it the real meaning. The rocket would not be leaving it "too fast" as you edited it but too slowly and in an unstable manner. Yes, I did think about that before posting it but if you ...

I suppose they used RPGs because there were and still are a whole poopooload of them in country. Basically the setup would have been an autoloading short mortar. think in terms of (vusualize here, I don't have my CAD program up and running) 3 or 4 "grease gun" type autoloaders, Sten or M3, real simp...

This one I know works. A couple of years ago the Resistance fighters used a reworked generator motor as an automatic fire RPG launcher. They fired 20+ rockets at that hotel the Army had previously shelled during the push to Baghdad. They pegged quite a few coalition people including a Colonel in the...

Say, what the hell is this militaristic rank system anyhow? Sheeeoot, when I was in the Air Farce they promoted me to Major General the first day of Basic. Yep, my TI said I was a Major Embarrassment and a General Disaster. So it is unanimous, in my mini-Democracy, I have the only vote and we voted ...

I tried to post this on the RIP right guard thread, but alas and alack it is locked. A couple of thoughts that are linked together, by me but not the thread, somebody said they probably could find the older stuff still on the shelves at dollar stores, and somebody said that there was probably a boat...