marble combustion (first)

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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f.c
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Sun Jul 08, 2007 7:09 am

well its just a combustion powered marble gun not much to say.

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Sun Jul 08, 2007 8:26 am

sweet, simple, not too messy, i like it! we need some damage picks!
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Sun Jul 08, 2007 11:59 am

Cool, looks kind of like a small coax pneumatic. I have never seen a combustion besides yours that shoots marbles as it's primary ammo.
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Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:12 am

spudthug wrote:sweet, simple, not too messy, i like it! we need some damage picks!
you stole my words :)
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Mon Jul 09, 2007 7:47 pm

I thought marbles were 16mm. Anyway its nice to see more marble guns on here. Its nice and clean good work mate.
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Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:22 am

what sort of fps does it hit??? i never considered a combustion gun to be powerful in marble calibre, is it?

Nice work on the gun, very unique :D
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Sat Jul 14, 2007 6:18 am

well yes it is rather powerful. you tubes being gay and wont let me upload a shooting video at the moment.
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Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:08 am

Looks fairly good. Quite clean too, but are you going to paint it?
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Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:33 am

i will when i get the chance.
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Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:37 am

Nice gun lachlan, I'm known as duct_tape on RE.
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Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:44 am

wow duct_tape its you. its like a rotteneggs meet here.
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