Potato Powered Combustion haha

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.
keep_it_real
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Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:25 pm

I just got a crazy idea. I think it should work. What if you made an electric shock from tons of potato batteries (go here: http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/phen ... ttery.html) that was enough to ignite some hairspray. It shoots spuds and its powered by spuds. haha
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Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:28 pm

That would be one sh*t load of potatos. Like a couple thousand, and they would go bad eventually cause you cut them. But what ever if you have the time try it.
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Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:30 pm

how many volts does a bbq lighter create? I found one site where this guy powered a small sound system. But it kinda was a sh*t load of potatoes.
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Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:39 pm

10,000 with a pzeizo.
it would be better to use those potatos as ammo.
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Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:59 am

A stungun, or camera circuit runs on a matter of a couple of batteries. (A 9V or two for the stungun, an AA or AAA for the camera flash).

You could use a potato battery or two to run a camera flash circuit if you wanted. It would be a nice novelty piece.
Novacastrian: How about use whatever the heck you can get your hands on?
frankrede: Well then I guess it won't matter when you decide to drink bleach because your out of kool-aid.
...I'm sorry, but that made my year.
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