Propane Powered Mini

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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Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:38 pm

The smallest combustion I've built next to my pill bottle mini. The chamber is about 10 inches of 2in PVC, and the barrel is 12 inches of 1 1/4 in PVC. The propane tank that fuels it almost dwarfs the gun, but its POWAHFUL!!! Powerful enough to ricochet off of the fence post and hit me in the knee.
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:42 pm

u used the EXACT SAME dodge tire guage as i did!! only if i knew that it used npt threads...

nice
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Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:33 pm

i like that cannon 8)
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Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:17 pm

Kicked, but I'm glad.
Thats a cool mini combustion.
grr, Now I must make one.
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Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:54 pm

I thought I was going to see a pill bottle with a metering system on it...

Thats a shnazzy little cannon. How loud is it? (Not Decibels, but compared to something like a full-size combutsiotn)
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Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:01 pm

well it is a metered propane mini,an a prity cool one at that. why would you put propane metering on a pill bottle? it would probly blow up :shock:
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