Coconut spudgun

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Fri Apr 03, 2009 4:50 pm

Hey everyone, I was looking around instructables today and found this

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Yea, I know, its a coconut made into a combustion spudgun!

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I need to buy a coconut!

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It is very cool, but the guy later messaged me to tell me it exploded while he was using it. It looks awesome and is a great spudders ornament, but pretty useless other than that. (Hunting on a desert island? haha!)
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Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:30 pm

I like it. Ghetto at its finest.

Looks well-made too. The barrel threads in!! haha.
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Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:58 pm

We don't need to increase the amount of coconuts that kill people annually..already beating sharks :roll:

I saw it and thought it was very cute...Would be a good bar ornament but impractical for use

Btw, just watched the vid and I think there's a bottle cap with a hole in it glued into the chamber and there's the neck of a bottle slid over the pipe..shoulda painted the lid too
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Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:10 pm

nice i love it
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Sat Apr 04, 2009 3:36 am

you dont happen to be another person who lives in hawaii do you? because i only know one other member who does. and coconuts are quite easy to find here as you might imagine
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Nope..oh well. (I'd like to..) Do you have the baskets under coconut trees to stop them falling on peoples heads there? Or was that somewhere else..

Next time we're shopping I might try find a very small, heavy, hard and smooth coconut..
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Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:49 am

Niiice!
Originality award. :D

It really fits the theme for a day of spudding on a beach.
Till the day I'm dieing, I'll keep them spuddies flying, 'cause I can!

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nah, but some gov worker pickes them pretty often when its in season
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Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:56 pm

Really original there. Those things are certainly tough enough to do the job.

Did you know that falling coconuts account for 150 human deaths worldwide every year?
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Sat Apr 04, 2009 8:02 pm

Is that a pressure rated coconut though?
starman wrote:Did you know that falling coconuts account for 150 human deaths worldwide every year?
That's as many UK soldiers that have been killed in Afghanistan since 2001.

I haven't seen an anti-coconut/anti-gravity march, ever.

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jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:I haven't seen an anti-coconut/anti-gravity march, ever.

:roll:
Aaaand you aren't likely to in the near future.
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inonickname wrote:We don't need to increase the amount of coconuts that kill people annually..already beating sharks :roll:
George Burgess wrote:Falling coconuts kill 150 people worldwide each year, 15 times the number of fatalities attributable to sharks,"
As said..

Hmm..if I were to build one I'd find a better method of venting without making the coconut too weak. A less than bottle cap sized hole in such a chamber could make things difficult.

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I've been drinking :)
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George burgess was the guy talkin 'bout coconuts in the article. They didn't have a spudfiles quote option :(
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