Just wanted to add my 2 cents about my favorite style of valve. This is a positive pressure piston valve. It differs in the way that it doesn't exhaust air to fire. Instead it pressurizes a second piston in a separate cavity to open the main valve piston. No such thing as a misfire caused from a leaky pressure vessel or discharging the vessel.
this is by far the largest cannon i have built. i built it about a year ago. i think it is my third cannon.
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i plan on making more air cannons and my first one i built used a 3/4 inch sprinkler vavle and it didnt work so now i had to use a ball valve and it...