How To: Know When Your Soda Bottle Chamber Is About To Blow

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Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:54 pm

Well you could build a wood one with a plexiglass inlay where the lens goes.
mobile chernobyl wrote:I can shoot a Canuter Valve off my '82 Chevy Ram F150 AT LEAST 3/4 Mile with 'ma cannon made of soup cans duct taped together, then I just squirt some bacardi 151 in the chamber and hold up my cigarrete lighta and WHOOSH! That thing flies at least 3/4 mile
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Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:55 pm

Hmm...that gives me an idea for a technology project for school, cheers :P
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Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:35 pm

You could even put air springs surrounding it with the rest of the area filled with great stuff. In case you [s]drop it[/s] shoot at it.
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mobile chernobyl wrote:I can shoot a Canuter Valve off my '82 Chevy Ram F150 AT LEAST 3/4 Mile with 'ma cannon made of soup cans duct taped together, then I just squirt some bacardi 151 in the chamber and hold up my cigarrete lighta and WHOOSH! That thing flies at least 3/4 mile
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Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:11 pm

What's the legal status there about this? In the US, its illegal to put dryice in a airtight space.
Not that that doesn't stop people =)
Cool vid, han't seen a slow motion one before.
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Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:19 pm

Well i've never heard of any laws against it. Some guy put some in some trash cans last year and got caught, but that was indangering the public etc.

If I get caught, somehow, i'll just explain that i'm using the dry ice to test the suitability of a soda bottle for being used on an air rifle. You only have to be 18 for air rifles to be legal and since this uses a compressed gas to make the bottle explode, I probably can get away with it.
Because technically the law could just see it as a 'pressure chamber' that exploded. :)
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Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:32 am

Don't know about other countries, but yes in the states any and all of this is very illegal and you will wind up under arrest if caught. Rule 3 B2 covers this word for word.
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