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dragon finder
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Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:13 pm
Two inch cannon sabot
To make a two-inch cannon sabot you will need
Cardboard (cut up a box)
Scissors
DUCK TAPE
A ruler
A pencil/pen
P.S. This is my first multi picture submition if I did any thing wrong or against the rules feel free to delete this post
and thanx every one who helped me do this.
P.S. To load these I sujest(sp?) tapering the muzzle inward for easy loading.
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- MAIN BODY
First cut out a 6”long 6”wide piece of cardboard
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- Then roll or fold in all the cresses in the cardboard and then roll in to a cylinder and duck tape it together.
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- BASE
Next is to make the base to hold the sabot together
First make eight 1 7/8” lines intersecting at a central point and then cutting along the “imaginary” circumference line to make a circle.
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- And put duck tape on either side of the disk and put it on one end of the main body and fold over the remaining tape onto the main body. Then take a strip of duck tape and cut it lengthwise.
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- Then using these strips of tape put them over the overlapping tape from the base to look like this.
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- SABOT RING
Next is the ring to hold the sabot together during storage.
First cut a strip of cardbourd7 ¾”(or 7 ½”) long and 2” wide.
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- And fold along the cardboard’s cresses as done with the main body and then fold into cylinder and duck tape it.
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- PUTTING IT TOGETHER
For the main body cut the cylinder along the duck tape used to hold it together and the tape at the base then cut again on the other side then hold the base so the sabot looks like this.
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dragon finder on Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:27 pm, edited 8 times in total.
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Atlantis
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Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:28 pm
You're really going to use cardboard as a sabot? It's not easy to make carboard into round shapes. If you really want to make it even rounder take a box knife and cut a lot of parrerel lines but not all the way through. Cutting it about half way through makes it so much easier to bend. This is all assuming the carboard tube IS the sabot. P.S. It's DUCT TAPE.
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dragon finder
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Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:31 pm
I have used them multiple times and have worked perfecly 99% of the times and have made about 20 of them.
P.S.The main body donsn't stay square(most of the time the main body is round during fabrication)
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DonTheLegend
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Wed Mar 01, 2006 12:00 am
Just a suggestion - maybe try using electrician's tape instead of duct tape or just cover the duct tape with electrician's tape. I have used duct tape to resize ammo and get a good seal and it tends to grab along the inside of the barrel. Electrician's tape slides a lot better, especially if you stretch it slightly.
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thedub88
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Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:25 am
my friends in construction. he got some dence styrafoam and we twist the barrel through it. It cuts the foam the perfect shape. Then we cut it in half and hollow out the middle and put nuts or bolts into it
