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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Woody
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Mon May 11, 2009 4:27 pm
Sorry about that. I usually set my camera to a lower resolution when I plan on posting the pictures somewhere but it went over my head. I might manually do that later though.
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paaiyan
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Mon May 11, 2009 5:36 pm
Haha, just making sure. Because 200v would make for a very very small spark.
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starman
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Mon May 11, 2009 10:39 pm
You can take hi-res pictures with your camera, just resize them with one of the many photo tools that are available, then post the resized, smaller pictures.
Looks solid but a good bit utilitarian. I assume you are opening the rear cap to air out the chamebr after each shot. You could easy install a pvc ball valve here to more easily perform that function.
Not a bad effort though. Welcome to Spudfiles!
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Technician1002
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Tue May 12, 2009 12:13 am
starman wrote:You can take hi-res pictures with your camera, just resize them with one of the many photo tools that are available, then post the resized, smaller pictures.
Not a bad effort though. Welcome to Spudfiles!
If you don't have a decent photo editor, The Gimp is free. If you use it, it uses the term "Scale" instead of re-size.
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Again, welcome to spudfiles!
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mark.f
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Tue May 12, 2009 9:58 am
Very nice job on the cannon. One small thing, but it would look a lot nicer if you hid those wires coming from the conduit box. You could use some flextube or even air hose to do it.
As for the pictures, if you post them using the Spudfiles uploader, it will automatically resize them server-side into a thumbnail, which will speed up this page's loading time.
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Carlman
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Tue May 12, 2009 10:03 am
teh lag it burns...
Nice gun mate, i like the colour scheme, damage vids are a must!
Aussie spudders unite!!
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Woody
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Tue May 12, 2009 2:27 pm
Ok, Re sized all photos to 30% width and length so loading time should no longer be a problem.
Thanks for the comments! I may cover the wires soon also.
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Biopyro
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Tue May 12, 2009 3:09 pm
Mmm loads nicely now.
Lovely cannon! I don't think the wires look bad at all either.
What kind of endcap is it? It looks as thought it should be female, but I see female threads on the chamber. Do you have a closeup pic ?
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -Benjamin Franklin
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Woody
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Tue May 12, 2009 5:17 pm
It's a flush male clean out cap.
I think it looks nicer off so I took the pvc holder off the propane. I'll get a picture of how it is now soon.
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Woody
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Tue May 12, 2009 9:03 pm
Just made 1" and 2" barrels for it. I'll probably be screwing around with it some tomarrow. Got some of these old marbles that'll fit very nicely in the 1" barrel so I might do some damage shots with them. If you have any ideas as far as ammo/what to hit for some cool damage shots let me know.