Basketball Cannon

Boom! The classic potato gun harnesses the combustion of flammable vapor. Show us your combustion spud gun and discuss fuels, ratios, safety, ignition systems, tools, and more.
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Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:19 pm

yeah the larger the diameter pipe the lower the pressure rating generally
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Sun Apr 09, 2006 10:33 pm

my dad has about 400ft of that stuff now i just need the fittings
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Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:38 pm

wow, thats fourty 10 footers, where the hell does he store that stuff
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Fri May 26, 2006 3:45 am

amazing bloke ive never seen anything like it wat are you using for igniton

:shock: amazing
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Sun Oct 01, 2006 4:22 pm

you have to use aq wholoe can of aersol to fill that baby up. all in all sweet gun and diifinitly oculd be fun to try to hit a jump shot from about a mile away!
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1:dead topic
2:learn how to spell check
3:he uses metered propane
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Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:40 pm

i'm guessing that you just stick ur arm in to re-fuel it lol? anywho to vent it this could work if u don't wana take the back cap off.

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of course tho the pvc would need to be thick, same with the track it would be on and the rubber sealent.

kinda like in one of my other disighnes..
http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3769&
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Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:45 pm

he cant take it of as its bolted.
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Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:56 pm

And he can't take it off because he trashed it a looooonnnggg time ago :?
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Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:26 pm

MrCrowley wrote:he cant take it of as its bolted.
yea i know lol so he sticks his arm down the barrel to fuel it then? anywho did he ever get it workin very wel b4 he trashed it?
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he uses a propane setup.
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Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:42 pm

I have to give you credit. Any time invested in creating something that will heave a basketball hundreds of yards is well spent. You do realize that you are probably breaking some kind of U.N. agreement on intercontinental weapons right? HEHEHEHE.
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Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:40 pm

wait that thing shoots baketballs??
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Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:19 pm

No fuckin'g shi't
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Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:57 am

WOW, So what is stopping you from just making an actual cannon, gunpowder and all, or even better a propane powered gun that can fire bowling balls???
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