SpudFiles

For the past few days I jave been looking in dumpsters around a contruction-sight in my nieghborhood and I managed to get:20feet of 2inch,6feet of 3inch ,and finally 8 feet of half inch. This is probably the best idea i have ever had. Please post what solutions you have for this sometimes expensive hobby.

I've scrounged quite a bit of useful material out of dumpsters and trash piles near construction sites.
In fact, when I was 15, I built a huge two-story tree fort on my parent's land, completely from materials I "borrowed" from the trash pile at a nearby construction site.
If you're going to use the stuff for spudguns, just make sure it's pressure rated and not too banged up.

Peace,
Pete Zaria.

Every time I find a new piece I make it is good condition and is pressure rated. Btw that was only from two houses and there is at least twenty more going up.

I just recently found 80 seet of pressure rated 2 inch behind a dumpster. i was so syked

dumpster diving is one of my specialties. i have found so much good stuff. such as angle iron "bed frames", pvc, metal pipe, a riding lawn mower i fixed up, air compressor im currently using, blaw blaw.

Wait, why the hell do you need to dumpster-dive with PVC prices so cheap at HD You guys would really struggle if you lived in NZ, I don't see why you don't make so many cannons with prices like what you have.
You can get 1.5" galv fittings for $1.2 It'd cost me like $30NZD here which is about $22USD

They must see you coming and rub their hands together at home hey Crowley

MrC, you should really think of starting a buisness of importing American products into NZ. How much is shipping from America to NZ?

Yeah it'd be cheaper to mass import from America and still be able to sell the fittings at a cheaper price then to have Australia make them, and then import from them like we do now.

Shippinh would be a bitch unless you mass imported on a container ship and managed to sell most of the stock you imported.

MrCrowley wrote:Wait, why the hell do you need to dumpster-dive with PVC prices so cheap at HD You guys would really struggle if you lived in NZ, I don't see why you don't make so many cannons with prices like what you have.
You can get 1.5" galv fittings for $1.2 It'd cost me like $30NZD here which is about $22USD

well thats the thing about us. were extreamly cheap, like cheap enough to jump into a dumpster for a pvc fitting or an old paperback.

if I saw a book I wanted yer damn right i'd jump in and get it.

i made the SVBC entirley out of dumster dived materials and i mean everything exept the sprinkler valve and just the valve i got the blowgun from a construction site.I spent 15 bucks on that thing!

MrC, you should really think of starting a buisness of importing American products into NZ. How much is shipping from America to NZ?

Just skip america and import directly from china. You'll save a ton of money

well thats the thing about us. were extreamly cheap, like cheap enough to jump into a dumpster for a pvc fitting or an old paperback.

I'd DD for a book
Hell, I've dived for a 3-liter bottle once (they're kinda hard to find around here).

This whole topic smells a contest.
"Build a cannon from the contents of a dumpster"

I agree, although valves can real hard to find, even unions for burst disks aren't that common of throw aways.

However, I would take part if such a conglomeration of awesome ghetto goodness were to happen. I would ask for a bit of leeway. Either allow a few bucks to spend or allow any "relocation device" to be entered, i.e. trebuchet, catapult, gigantic slingshot, etc.

As for cheap pipe, can a person airmail fittings and whatnot, or is that contrary to the Homeland Security whatnot? I know you can buy pipe off the internet, but can they ship outside the US?

hey thats one of the many reasons I love this hobby, so many fittings are made in america,
I have plenty of pipe just not long lenghth of 1/2" pvc (my dad uses mostly cpvc for the smaller pipe) I also don't have any 2.5" and anything larger than 6" (which I found 2 lenths of) nor any sdr21
I use ghetto method of couplers sleeving a lot example like if I needed to make a very simple 1.5" canon with a 1" valve (really common) forget bushings and adapters just sand down your 1" thread adapter and put it in the barrel. its because no one will drive me to a large hardware store and wait as I go on a shopping frenzy (so you can't really blame them)