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Show us your pneumatic spud gun! Discuss pneumatic (compressed gas) powered potato guns and related accessories. Valve types, actuation, pipe, materials, fittings, compressors, safety, gas choices, and more.
wdr0
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Fri Feb 27, 2015 11:33 pm

Well it seems I am going about things backwards, starting with a big pneumatic and giant hybrid and now going to a small pnuematic. I had left over 4" from the big air cannon and decided I wanted a more portable unit so I built this with a 2" 200psi sprinkler valve. It is in its most rudimentary arrangement, the trigger and fill valves will be relocated as well as the barrel mounted more appropriately, although all of the sch 80 is assembled in its final arrangement. It does work quite well, it's testing has enlightened me to that which I probably should have known already. That being that potatoes expelled from tubular objects at any pressure can result in their fragmentation and dispersal on surfaces and there for such experimentation should be conducted outdoors and not in the kitchen. Luckily the potatoe was quite dry so cleanup was not difficult.
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Sat Feb 28, 2015 9:04 am

wdr0 wrote:That being that potatoes expelled from tubular objects at any pressure can result in their fragmentation and dispersal on surfaces and there for such experimentation should be conducted outdoors and not in the kitchen.
The wife must be delighted :D nice little cannon, we all need a bit of sprinkler fun in our lives
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Sat Feb 28, 2015 11:40 am

Well right now it is the parents, which I am very grateful for as as long as I dont perminantly damage the house or myself I am pretty well free to build and test whatever I come up with. I am actually only 19, I suspect that may not have been evident considering the scale of my other projects.
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Sat Feb 28, 2015 12:50 pm

You certainly build and publish older than you are, take that as a compliment.
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Sat Feb 28, 2015 4:02 pm

Compliments taken. Thanks! Yeah, I have always been interested in building things and therefore tended(and still do) hang out with adults mores so than people my age, so that is probably why.
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