As long as you're discussing cannons and not the monstrosities that they committed to innocent people and other living things, it's good.

I'm a fan of the screw darts myself. More damage!

Nice work! Here is a safety tip for you, shoot into a dirt hill or pile. That brick wall is going to bounce something right back at you.

I think D_Hall and PCGUY may already be talking about doing this but I have not heard anything officially about it, keep your fingers crossed that it comes to be.

Moonbogg wrote:I searched everywhere and came up with nothing. Why did they shut down? What happened?

I can think of 2 reasons for them to drop the spud gun sales. 1. Expensive permits needed and not enough profit to justify the cost. 2. Just not enough profit. Those are my guesses.

If you have enough wall thickness on the cylinder you might want to take the material from there thus trueing the cylinder making them a matched pair. It really does improve performance and reliability.

If you have to re-size or adapt brake cylinder pistons I will suggest a very, very sharp clean file. You have made a great choice for durability, these things last for ever. I've rebuilt a boat load of brake cylinders in my mechanical career and the piston cylinder wears out before the piston 99% of...

Wish me luck on my new 10 year anniversary cannon I'm working on. It has special significance.

Good luck! Good to see you to, it's been a while... :bigsmurf:

Wasn't this one a contest winner?

Spudfiles is a very large data base of spud canon information. There is web page after web page here about this very type of cannon configuration. Do some research on this, it's fun...

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PM PCGUY, it's his web forum.

I would like to take a quick moment and wish everyone a happy holiday and a great new year.

a few users modeled their hammer valve PCPs

Mass production models or home built I wonder? There would be differences in the builds.

I wonder if matched porting would make up the difference?

No excuses needed, you're going to fit in well around here.

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