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ok a friend wanted me to build and desing a snow ball gun and i dont live were it snows so trile and error is out of the question. has anyone ever done it. I was thinking of a sabou but im not if it will brake because of the Gs, or air resistance........ i dont know to much about the subject.

you could just tell your friend to use one of these to make the ammo and just give him a normal spud gun

http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/some-of ... 16932.html

well thats what i was planning on doing with the regular spud gun but i think he using it for some sort of Extreme snow ball fight. so thanks ill tell him and if it dosent work with a sabou i think it shourly will
thanks

Well first things first, you shouldn't make the cannon out of PVC. As you may know, PVC is very brittle in the cold.

Ummm extreme snowball fight as in....shooting them at real live humans? It's cool to build him a spudder that shoots snowballs. However, you should discourage him from actually shooting them AT anyone.

Throwing a snowball at someone is one thing. Shooting one at someone with a spud gun is quite another very dangerous proposition.

Try something like http://myaircannons.com/snowballblaster.html that. Whatever you do, don't buy the plans, unless you don't understand it at all.

(No, this isn't intended to be an advertisement)

Mcrowley: i realised that and i was wondering if sch80 would work even in the snow

Starman: No hes just using it to destroy snowforts but I.

Roboman: i cant use that because he need snowballs not snow clouds so im gonna try the ammo that mateo sugjested.

Unless you're shooting frozen snowballs, I doubt they would stay together when fired; they need to be accellerated more gradually, something like this would be much better.[/url]

FishBoy wrote:Unless you're shooting frozen snowballs, I doubt they would stay together when fired; they need to be accellerated more gradually, something like this would be much better.[/url]

Ive build one of those once.... Awfully fun...

Could you have found a worse picture? lol.

VH_man wrote:

FishBoy wrote:Unless you're shooting frozen snowballs, I doubt they would stay together when fired; they need to be accellerated more gradually, something like this would be much better.[/url]

Ive build one of those once.... Awfully fun...

Could you have found a worse picture? lol.

Haha don't you just love the '80s?

I would not suggest doing anything of the sort- someone will get hurt. Either from the weakend PVC or the recipient of a high velocity ball of ice.

The nifty pic that FishBoy found while skimming the internet for swimsuits (jk) is a great ide, if he is warring in a forested area. Surgical tubing or simple bungees for a sling between two trees can launch very large snowballs (think snowman's head) a large distance.

If tried shooting snowballs, it does not work out. You end up getting a burst of powder that travels a few feet. It could have been the fault of the cannon I used, operating it at 600PSI .

Orpackrat wrote:It could have been the fault of the cannon I used, operating it at 600PSI .

Yeah, 600psi would certainly powderize the snow.....

starman wrote: Yeah, 600psi would certainly powderize the snow.....

If it snows again, I'll have to try the my newest launcher (this one I bought). It operates between 180PSI to 280PSI (if I remember correctly) with an internal regulator:

http://www.metadyneindustries.com/index ... db28cadb9f

Would sch80 work in the snow