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T- Shirt Cannon

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:12 pm
by turbohacker
I Built this gun for my school a cople of months ago to fire t shirts into the crowd at sporting events (hence the miners sticker on the side) I has a three foot by three inch chainber and a two and a half inch barrel. It uses a Co2 tank to constantly refill itself. I used a beer keg regulator to regulate the Co2 to 120 PSI. I also incorperated a key safety and pushbutton fireing system because the school thaught that it was cool and didnt care if it affected performance a little bit. It will shoot a rooled t shirt about 250 to 300 feet when at peak performance level. I used a one inch sprinkler valve because I had not experenced the wonderful world of pistons yet. -enjoy

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:17 pm
by ShowNoMercy
Wow I love the CO2 setup on that thing, how many shots do you get per tank?

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:20 pm
by turbohacker
I get about 10 to 12 shots, but the school pays for the Co2 and they have like five or six tanks

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:21 pm
by ShowNoMercy
Best way to go :wink:

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:46 pm
by turbohacker
rock on :lol:
peace, strike that, chaos

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:56 pm
by ShowNoMercy
You should get or make a piston valve and then see how many people want Tshirts :twisted:

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:29 pm
by turbohacker

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:18 am
by ArticWolf
That thing rocks. It sounds like it is a lot of fun, don't feel bad sprinkler valves are what I would use too. QEV's cost alot but I heard they work better than the sprinkler valve. :)

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:39 am
by spudthug
why is this in the cannon contest place??

on subject that is one sweet gun but i tihnk shownomercy was talking about putting a piston on here so it would be really powerful

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:43 am
by ShowNoMercy
Yes that is what I meant. But still nice gun here and the piston gun was ok but no where near the level seen on this gun.

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:17 am
by turbohacker
i was looking at the guns that were already on the contest and thaught i might, mabee, somehow have a chance

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:06 pm
by JDP12
Nice cannon..but it should be in the Pneumatic contest submission thread.and to continue a convo about this gun post it in the pneumatic cannon discussion like everyone else is doing.......

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:32 pm
by turbohacker
sorry pc guy i just read the thread about not postinng in here
how do i move this post to the pnumatics area

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:15 am
by Redcoat
That is a nice gun.Do the t-shirts open while they're flying through the ar or do they stay rolled in flight?

sick gun! :violent2:

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:06 am
by XxtriviumxX
thats a sick gun, i like it........250-300 ft wow thats pretty far for a t-shirt........have you tried wetting the the t-shirts slightly to make them more heavy and solid?