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First Potato Cannon

Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:13 pm
by WolfCreek
Hi, I thought I'd show some pictures of a potato cannon I built for my stepson's birthday. This is the first one I've built and in fact, it's the first one I've ever fired. And now I'm hooked! :D

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It's 4" pipe for the chamber that gets reduced to 1 1/2". Then it has another section of 4" over the 1 1/2" to make the "barrel".

A couple of bicycle wheels, some 4x4 wood to clamp around the barrel, a lantern flint for ignition, and some decorative elements that my wife added.

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We tried some sweet potatoes at first which worked pretty good. And I like the orange color, real easy to see. We then took it out to my stepson's place and launched some small potatoes through it. It averaged around 200 yards plus on 4 short shots of AquaNet.


Now to build one for myself!

Dean

Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:31 pm
by Spuddin
great looking cannon, looks sweet. welcome to spud rehab.

Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:03 pm
by FishBoy
nice, simple but pretty good looking. Welcome to the addiction :D

Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:17 pm
by pat123
Looks great, I was about to warn you about the reducer but i see that it holds no pressure.

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:52 pm
by facist7
nicly done, im glad to see that some people keep to the "keep it simple" rule of spud gunnin. i dont care what people say, no matter what you do tou your cannon, its still a spud gun, there is no need to go all high tech...well done

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:03 pm
by starman
I'm getting broken picture links there...anything wrong that you know of?

Welcome to Spudfiles!

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:08 pm
by King_TaTer
Yeah I have the same problem as starman. Otherwise it sounds good. I just wonder why I can't see them and others can, hmmm.

Edit: Yes I also just realized that the thread was from last year. :?

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:33 pm
by inonickname
Yep, your images are broken. Try re-uploading them.

Sounds good though, I'll wait for pictures to comment any more.

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:07 pm
by starman
Sputnick just brought to my attention that the original post is from last year....

Facist7, what photos were you looking at earlier today???