"In the world of spuds today"

[Novacastrian]

Loving that APFSDS projectile And that "tough" piece of laminate ain't that tough after all hey! You sure that you can't find any "unwanted" holes?

"In my world of spuds today" I shot my digicam with the Hammer Shotgun I'll upload the footage (short, like 4 seconds) after work 8)

[bigbob12345]

That was quite impressive sounded like it was very loud

Okay in the world of spuds today I finally got my mini coaxials piston to seal and will finish glueing it up tomorrow and will have it posted this weekend.
I succesfully put a hole in my garage (I wasnt trying to it went through the target and into my garage)with the KAMG fireing a 3ft long peice of 1/2in pvc with the middle plugged and wadded. And the back of are garage is 3in of solid wood if you dont belive me ill go take a few pics.
I scrapped my plans for the monster 230ci high pressure metal launcher and my hybrid i was planning to make this weekend and decided that I will save up for an air compressor instead.
I pumped the PG a little to high(140psi the highest ive ever pressurized pvc) and the piston cracked when I fired it(didnt have a bumper)I will rebuild it with a bumper.

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

I shot my digicam with the Hammer Shotgun

What, no more videos?

[Novacastrian]

I shot my digicam with the Hammer Shotgun

What, no more videos?

There will be more vids!!- It was a planned shot, i filled the barrel with plastic swarf and shotgunned that mo-fo, there are two frames that i find particulary fu%^ing awesome

[pizlo]

In the world of spuds tonight I planned out my mini simple steel, and make some of my own flechete rounds for my half in barrel. On the mini I hope to have a breech load for the individual finishing nail rounds , and I don't want to feel optimistic but I think I might try a simple half inch piston valve.

[MrCrowley]

In the world of spuds today... I went to school

Though I did get to plan one of my projects in my Hard-Tech class, but building can't start for a few more months.

[Novacastrian]

Check out this very short vid, you may want to pause it during the firing to capture the shot

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

clucking bell! But please tell the the camera was behind a sheet of polycarbonate or something, you could have cool effects like this

[Novacastrian]

I have seen that clip before, he is a lucky soldier! As to the protective sheet, no the camera got shot I knew that the lightweight shot would not damage it, at least i hoped For other shots though you gave me a good idea- it will have to wait till next week though, i love my weekends!
BTW that is my favourite frame too

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

A bit of swarf at that velocity could easily have scratched the lens, if not worse - if I were you I would refrain from directly targeting sensitive electronics in future but cool video nonetheless.

[Novacastrian]

A bit of swarf at that velocity could easily have scratched the lens, if not worse - if I were you I would refrain from directly targeting sensitive electronics in future but cool video nonetheless.

Point taken

[MrCrowley]

I have seen that clip before, he is a lucky soldier!

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[pizlo]

I got the iron for my mini today, but need to order a few fittings from Mcmaster to get the thing functional.

[DYI]

In the world of spuds today, I finished my APFSDS round, and test fired it at 1/4" steel plate with 220ci of chamber at ~260 psi. GGDT says that it was going 530 fps, and that the actual slug (not including sabot) had a kinetic energy of ~3 000 ft/lbs.

As you will see from the video, I need some harder steel, because the energy is definitely there (Nova fired a hardened steel dart through 5mm plate with less than 200 ft/lbs of KE).

Here's what the round looked like before firing, with half of the sabot removed to see what's inside:



And here's the video:

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[MrCrowley]

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