Cannon on my 2/3 scale jeep

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Mon Jul 30, 2007 3:46 am

Cannon mounted on my 2/3 scale jeep
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 3:49 am

Nice. Plain and simple. Just nice :P
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 3:51 am

Closeup of jeep cannon
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 4:02 am

looking good :) though you could have posted this photo in the other thread.

Is that a SUSAT sight you have mounted there? And was that Mauser 98 captured from ze Germans ;p
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:05 am

thats pretty sweet. very professional. now just make it breech-loaded with a fiarly high ROF and EEEKK. lol
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:20 am

That looks nice :sign3:, Love the green :headbang:
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:42 am

Looking very nice, especially the sprayjob. well done
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:44 am

love it. can we get some specs/ vids of it in action? i bet that is pretty powerful. btw nice jeep :wink:

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Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:01 am

Topics merged, just so noone flames him for making two topics with the same subject. Thanks to PCGUY for putting that new feature in.

Nice cannon! I love the way it blends in with the jeep.
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 3:20 pm

Wow, awesome doesn't even look like a spudgun, looks like something you would see on a military vehicle
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I will try to take more pictures as soon as I learn how to submit on this site, still new at it. One thing on the cannon: I use a hand spun fan instead of an electric fan. It works every time and is simple. Just a couple of spins and it shoots. I posted some drawings of it in the album section.
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Instead of burst disks I punch out 1" plugs out of insulation board. They seal the barrel and than you can put anything in the barrel that fits. You can punch dozens in about 5 minutes and they are cheap made from scrap foam board. If anyone is interested I will take photos of the system.
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Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:50 am

spudthug wrote:
btw anyone have myspace on here?
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I do but i never go on it.

Anyway that is a nice setup.Do you have to stop the vehicle to fire it or can you fire on the move.( i mean with two people in it).

The rifle on the side is in good nick.If it's an original. Off the top of my head it looks like a springfield.
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Redcoat wrote:The rifle on the side is in good nick.If it's an original. Off the top of my head it looks like a springfield.

No it isn't :p
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Wed Aug 01, 2007 2:52 am

The gun can be fired while moving as long as the passanger does it. The rifle is an old Lee enfield I think, it,s just for show.
I am starting a new cannon out of aluminum however that will take a while. I will be using an aluminum air cylinder and adding on from there.
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