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medievalman wrote:Hilarious, but my parents wouldnt let me do that. "I MIGHT BURN THE HOUSE DOWN!!!" :lol:
Thats why I only got to shoot it a few times. Maybe around 7 shots.

I think we should have a ghetto contest. That would be so cool. Killa, I think I might try a tissue box burst disk.
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I think the ghetto contest would be hilarious. Someone would get exploded really bad and blame Mr.Salt. I got a snow day for the last 2 days down here in austin and a 2 hour delay for school tomorow. Yay! I am going make a tissue box piston gun with 2 inch porting.
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Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:15 pm

we should have a ghetto contest

Yes! I will win. Hell, I'll make one out of tissues.
ProfessorAmadeus wrote:I think the ghetto contest would be hilarious. Someone would get exploded really bad and blame Mr.Salt. I got a snow day for the last 2 days down here in austin and a 2 hour delay for school tomorow. Yay! I am going make a tissue box piston gun with 2 inch porting.
Hahah! I'd like to see you try and get it to not spurt snotty rags at you when your charging it.
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ProfessorAmadeus wrote:I think the ghetto contest would be hilarious. Someone would get exploded really bad and blame Mr.Salt.
For some reason that made me laugh quite loudly. Now you and you alone have to refer to me as Mr. Salt :)

If I have no school on Friday, I think I'll start my tissue box burst disk. I already have plans for it. What should I use for a barrel?
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Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:30 pm

Pipe. Or some broom handles are hollow metal. Have fun trying to get a tissue box air tight. Yar it be one eyed worthy!! Har Har!! (I said that to a girl that got blind in one eye because someone threw a nut and hit her in the eye and had to wear an eyepatch. Here last name is worthy)
Insomniac wrote:Hey why am I a goose???? Why not somthing a little more awe inspireing, like an eagle or something? LOL
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Getting it airtight would be easy: duct tape. I think I could use a cut off botte like I did on this one, then feed a pipe through it and seal off the gap between the pipe and the bottle. Then I could put the burst disk over the whole thing.
This actually might work!
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Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:47 pm

Man, you are lucky! My hardware store only sells pressure-rated tissue fittings up to 30-count.

That's a beast!!!1! Wut kind of ratio is that!??!!11!!!?one!!!??

And because you deserve it ohh so much....

I hereby present Flying_Salt with the most coveted.... honerary.... awesome-super-cool spudgun award..... The one and only.... <a href="http://www.geocities.com/sgort87/ghetto">Ghetto Award!</a>

Congradulations dude! You earned this!
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OMG!! You are soo lucky!!!one!!!
Insomniac wrote:Hey why am I a goose???? Why not somthing a little more awe inspireing, like an eagle or something? LOL
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Proffessor, for your ghetto cannon make it out of an old microwave.....that would be so damn funny.

Or better yet, get a pill bottle, cover it in vaseline and then wrap in LOTS of duct tape. Then slide the tape off the pill bottle and you have a chamber. Do the same thing with a broom handle, tape it to the chamber and you have a gun made entirely of duct tape :lol:
It would be lit with a hole in the chamber, no fancy electronics lol.
I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.
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I think i might try to make a little gun...with a lightbulb for a chamber!
ProfessorAmadeus wrote:I think the ghetto contest would be hilarious. Someone would get exploded really bad and blame Mr.Salt. I got a snow day for the last 2 days down here in austin and a 2 hour delay for school tomorow. Yay! I am going make a tissue box piston gun with 2 inch porting.
How come you get snow days in Texas? We havent had one in Minnesota yet!!! We have had like 2in. of snow this winter! I am ANGRY!!! :evil:
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Hahahahahaha a lightbulb. Find one that the fillament is broken, and use the pre installed electrodes as your spark gap lol.

Make one out of paper mache :lol:
I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.
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I might try the paper mache just to see if it explodes. and we dont get snow days we get ice dsys. it rains during the day and freezes over at night so you cant drive any where.
anyone know how to get 1/2 inch pipe off a finger?
Insomniac wrote:Hey why am I a goose???? Why not somthing a little more awe inspireing, like an eagle or something? LOL
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akaddis wrote:nice like the design...

Seriousness or sarcasm?



Anyway, that looks a typical product of boredom. Dangerous but funny.

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ProfessorAmadeus wrote: anyone know how to get 1/2 inch pipe off a finger?
You have small fingers! I have only gotten 3/4 inch pipe stuck on my finger! And i just had someone pull till it came off. It sure is painful, but it works!
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WOw man, tahts a nice cannon, too bad you have those primer stains and you used drain fittings.
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