another mini, surprise surprise

Boom! The classic potato gun harnesses the combustion of flammable vapor. Show us your combustion spud gun and discuss fuels, ratios, safety, ignition systems, tools, and more.
cardinals08
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Sat Dec 24, 2005 3:29 am

I just threw a mini together cause I was bored and its 2:20 am with nothing else to do. I used a high lighter tube for chamber, pen tube for barrel. I glued in the barrel so only half sticks out. I used a piezo with long wires cause I plan on making a pimpin stand for this son of a gun. Man is it ever hard to get the AXE to air ratio right. I fired a couple blanks to practice and stuck a gum wrapper in after that. after about 20 minutes of fiddling(longer than it took to throw the thing together) BANG!! Success :D It was pretty loud for its size, sounded like a fire cracker, as soon as it fired, next thing I know, the wrapper had already bounced off the wall and hit me in the forehead :lol: it seems like a pretty good gun for the size. I cant fire any more cause its cold outside and parents are sleeping :( I wanna see how it compares to the other minis. if it does good, Im gonna use it more cause it takes half the fuel of a pill mini. Would it do better if I pulled the pen all the way out? or is it just as good to have it in the chamber?
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 1:03 am

the pen in the chamber makes the chamber smaller and I find with minis smaller chambers work better and post some pics please,pleease.
cardinals08
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 1:11 am

I dont know how, I have a digital camera, but dont know how to get the pics onto the internet, would it work if I attached them to an email, and sent them to my yahoo email account? could I get the pictures on here from there? I just made some ammo for it, I rolled small pieces of paper into small cones. they fly from my bedroom window, all the way across the street, probably about 75 feet.
I actually think I will make a pistol handle for it, put the butane thing in the handle, then have two buttons on the handle, one for ignition, one for fueling :D
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:03 am

edit the first post here att the bottom of the edit screen there is a browse and add attactment button click browse find the pic then click add attacthment the screen should change the there should be two add atachment boxes at the bottom one with the file name on top of it. and dont feel stupid I had to ask one of my super computer geeks friends.
cardinals08
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:12 am

ok. Ill post pics tomorrow if i have time, its getting late so Im going to bed for tonight
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