duck Tape cannon *video clips*

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Fri Sep 07, 2007 2:50 pm

I built this thing a few years back and forgot about it until I found it again. I remember posting it once before one or two of you may remember it.

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I made it out of a role of duct tape and a card board tube for the barrel. The back has a top fo a fruit 2o bottle from back when they were flat on top.

Its pretty simple and it works just fine for light ammo. I havent put any thing to heavy in their because I dont want to ruin it, What do u all think?
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Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:00 pm

I think it's pretty redneck, lol. Just an aerosol for fuel I assume?
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Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:12 pm

yea

A noise maker really but I just liked that I could make a working combustion out of just about any thing.

I'm thinking of taking a video an posting that if I can find something to fuel it with.
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Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:13 pm

that may be the most ghetto cannon ever made!
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Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:21 pm

So when you shoot it, do you try to get that chamber expanded to spray in the fuel, or do you let the combustion blow it up like a balloon?
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Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:27 pm

I usually take the bottle cap off and blow on it to expand it a bit to kinda seal up the leaks in the tape big if its not fully expanded its not a big deal. I'm going to go shoot it now an take a video.
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Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:34 pm

I was hoping that the cannon used duct tape as a burst disk, not as the gun itself. Ah well. At least you didn't try it as a pneumatic.
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Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:36 pm

I love that photo man, lol. I think he didn't build it to be high-performance. It sounds like he made it out of duct tape pretty much because he felt like it.
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Fri Sep 07, 2007 4:03 pm

The only way you could get more ghetto than that is if you used an ordinary lighter, not even a long nosed one to light it.
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Fri Sep 07, 2007 4:04 pm

well here is 2 video clips of shoting a golf ball.

fist video I used one paper towel for wadding and the second I used 2 to make it fit a bit tighter.

I didn't shoot many time because I didn't want to use all my vintage fuel.

HAHA what are you talking about paaiyan? This thing is the hight preforming cannon made of duct tape ever! lol

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Fri Sep 07, 2007 4:06 pm

Well first, your videos didn't work.

Second, of course it's the highest performing duct tape cannon I've seen. It's also the only duct tape cannon I've seen.
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Fri Sep 07, 2007 4:08 pm

i edited them it should work
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Fri Sep 07, 2007 5:05 pm

thespeedycicada wrote:that may be the most ghetto cannon ever made!
no, check out saltys tissue box cannon and his paper mache cannon.
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Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:44 pm

Lol, It shoots 10 feet.
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Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:22 pm

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OMG that is so getto oh man this SOOO deserves the ghetto award in fact I'll PM Gort however I haven't seen him around for awhile
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