Little Bang

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Sun Feb 13, 2005 12:04 am

<div align="center">LITTLE BANG

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The spudgun featured here is the one I call "Little Bang." It has an approximately 1500ml chamber and a 46.5" long 1" diameter double walled barrel. The C:B ratio is about 2.35:1. Despite its name, it is really loud. As with BigBang III the construction of the chamber is completely double walled.

Little bang is a breachloader and has a little 12V chamber fan that I run by use of a 9V battery applied across the fan leads. The most interesting part of Little Bang is its ignition system. It features a 20 foot dual ignition wired remote control. I call the ignition system my "universal" ignition system because I plan to use it on future guns. The heart of the ignition system is an electronic gas grill ignitor module that I purchased from Sears for $16.95 + S&H. After some modest rewiring it provides two 5mm arcs in the chamber - one of which you can see in one of the attached pictures. The remote ignition connects to the gun via two "spark plugs" which I manufactured myself.

Lastly, as with all my guns, fueling is all off board. I have included pictures of the fuel meters for Little Bang and BigBang III for comparison.

I have also included a picture of the two guns side by side for comparison.

In this picture you can also see the bipods I've made for each gun, and the stand I use to stabilize BigBang III and keep it from tipping over.

BTW, the orange and maroon color scheme for Little Bang was chosen because I'm a Hokie! That means I went to Va Tech. Of course, the paint on both guns is Krylon Fusion - nothing but the best!
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A 5mm spark generated by the ignition system.
A 5mm spark generated by the ignition system.
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The remote ignition system.
The remote ignition system.
A veiw inside.
A veiw inside.
An exploded veiw of the remote ignition's components.
An exploded veiw of the remote ignition's components.
A picture inside little bang's chamber.
A picture inside little bang's chamber.
Little bang and big bang III.
Little bang and big bang III.
Little bang's chamber and the remote ignition system.
Little bang's chamber and the remote ignition system.
The removable sparkplugs.
The removable sparkplugs.
The propane meters. The one on the right is featured for comparison; it's used to fuel bigbang III.
The propane meters. The one on the right is featured for comparison; it's used to fuel bigbang III.
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Sun Feb 13, 2005 7:48 pm

Real nice, You should make them have interchangable barrels, so you could have burst disks, and make them LOUDER :evil: :twisted: :evil: :!:

I love the metering systems, real nice, I like how the copper is polished and the metering tube is red. :D 8)
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Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:08 am

varry varry nice can the barrels elevation be raised and lowewred
or is it static

also how far can the two cannons shoot and is the fetured one consistant in it's accuracy wonderfull looking cannon
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Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:23 am

dude that is a sick cannon! and im just a noob at this stuff
thank god i know alot about real guns or i could be in a troubled heap man but im working on a shotgun type potato gun that shoots airsoft bb's!!!!!! i have big plans for the design and things but im also making a cartridge for it so it can be shot at least every 20 seconds baby!!! and the fuel system is going to be hair spray because its so cheap and what not but it should come out great! SINCE IM A NOOB HOW LONG CAN I LET THE HAIR SPRAY SIT AND STILL BE FIRED!!!!!!
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Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:26 am

You could start by not hijacking someone else's topic.
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Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:23 am

drac wrote:You could start by not hijacking someone else's topic.


Been done.


Nice cannon man. I like your spark plugs, and the ability to use everyhitng on another gun. Lookig forward to seeing more
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Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:39 pm

no matter how much ive looked, i can never find an ignition system such as this one on this gun, i can only seem to find the cheap piece of crap piezioelectric kind
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Sat May 19, 2007 11:25 pm

nice cannon,
i love the idear of the spark plugs,
like the paint job too...
and the remote ignition system just tops it off!

it kinda reminds me of a morter but with a remote.
well done
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