A word of advice if you have a potato gun

[Furry Spatula]

andyo, do you remember how long your chamber was? Because if it was more than 1.5 times as big you had a lot of wasted power, so if you made a bigger barrel you could have had it a lot more powerful. And my gun was pretty much the same. I hit trees about 25 meters away, it completely stripped the bark off of the trees and the potato vaporized. My gun blew up a few days after easter and the day after easter we were shootin at the tree. You can still see about 10 marks on the trees behind my house where the potatos hit. Sigh what i'd give to have another $50 so i could do it all over again.

 

[Richard III]

Originally posted by ainwood
PH - A potato gun is basically a plastic tube - open on one end, and closed on the other. You stuff a potato in the open end, reasonably tight so that it seals. You fill the closed end (through a hole) with butane (something like spreay deoderant or hairspray will do). You then have an ignitor - a switch from a gas barbeque works well. This explodes the butane, creating pressure that blows the potato out.

...are you mad?



Look, it you want flammable kicks, just stand on a chair with a can of coffee mate, shake it and have one of your friends light the bottom of the coffee mate column.

It's much safer, really.


R.III

 

[Kefka]

Originally posted by PaleHorse76
Potato gun....what the hell is that? It seems like you shoot potatos out of it but....why?

Ya know I can only anwser your question with the old WHY NOT!
I MEAN ITS A GUN THAT SHOTS POTATOS! IT JUST HAD TO BE INVENTED! WHAT BETTER WEAPON IS THERE TO USE THAN A POTATO!
I can just Imagine the threats
ya know one of these days your gonna be walking down the street and BAMM its two spuds in your head.
(note when you read that threat do it in your best godfather accent)

 

[Ozz]

Originally posted by Kefka

ya know one of these days your gonna be walking down the street and BAMM its two spuds in your head.
(note when you read that threat do it in your best godfather accent)

A lot of potato guns will pierce 1/2" plywood at 100"
Some are better described as cannons

 

[allhailIndia]

You wanna talk 'bout weapons, try putting a lighter in front of bug spray and spray.





If the results are not catastrophic, send me hate mail.

 

[Furry Spatula]

We should point that bug spray at our chests when we do that, right?

 

[damunzy]

I want to make a spud gun now! Good thing lack of money is saving my gonads from horrible backfire pain.

 

[Furry Spatula]

Ok if you do make a potato gun, look around the web for other peoples experiences, its good to learn from other peoples mistakes, i guess i must have skipped over the keep your gun clean warnings . But do not use ABS piping. If i did i may have died. Ugh thats not a good thing to think about. Apparantly if an ABS pipe (the black pipe) fails (explodes) it explodes into many many many little shards. So that wouldn't have turned out nicely. So yea just get some PVC piping. I'd say get a 1.5" diameter pipe for the barrel about 5' long. and a 4" diameter pipe thats about 1' long for the chamber. And do go to www.spudtech.com if you want to see the proper operation. So if you do end up getting the cajons to risk some pain but some cool potato blasting take a look at that site, and remember its realy easy to just add a minor adjustment to the plans at the site, If you look at it you should get the jist of what needs to be built.