gonna try and make one with a friend this weekend. anyone got any tips or recommendations?

wear a helmet and a cup

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Originally posted by RickyM you're just a shit version of Moral Hazard. At least he knows what he's talking about.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN lol, i love it when moral feels the need to lay the smack down

You don't really need that much hairspray, start out with a little bit, than work your way up. They are a lot of fun.

Also, hide it before you start drinking, because it will seem like a great idea when you are drunk to fire it into the neighbor's pool at 2 in the morning only to take out a window (and narrowly missing a chihahua) instead.

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It's kind of like bang the drum slowly, except the drum is a chick

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Originally posted by Sunsnail gonna try and make one with a friend this weekend. anyone got any tips or recommendations?

dont make the combustion chamber too big, 10 - 12" MAX of 6" PVC SDR80 (schedule 80 is a must since you want it to be able to withstand AT LEAST 80 PSI before catastrophic failure) also i have found that barrel length of 36 to 48" works best. As for fuel, hairspray works well (garnier fruictus) but it will gum up the electrical contacts after a while. the best (and most awesome way) is oxygen and acetylene.

what you want (ideally) is a 5" and a 2" length of 1/2" cast iron pipe (threaded at both ends) and install a standard high pressure 1/2" ball valve on each end of each pipe. one of the ball valves on each pipe install a standard coupler for attaching a 120z compressed gas cylinder. the other end should be fitted with a 90degree elbow and a small lenght of threaded pipe to be screwed into the side of the combustion chamber. the 5" pipe is for O2 and teh 2" pipe is for C2H2 (acetylene) basically have all the valves closed, open the tank side ones first to allow the pipe to fill with gas, then close the tank side valves and open the other valves to vent the gas to the combustion chamber.

you now have a loaded potatoe cannon with a perfect 5:2 ratio of O2 and C2H2 in the chamber. this has a huge punch and will easily launch a potatoe a couple hundred yards.


enjoy

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN I have 3 hobbies: gaming, DJing & correcting maladjusted fools on the internet.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN Yeah, I’d like to know what horrible, scarring incident in your childhood turned you into such an ignorant, intellectual-hating philistine?

i knew i would get a response from you, mr. canadian engineer

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Originally posted by Sunsnail i knew i would get a response from you, mr. canadian engineer

what can i say, its hard to resist the nerd urges to build something that launches root vegetables, and then spend 3 years of optimizing it in my spare time....


ask karim, i tested one of my earlier models on him (he was being an idiot and asked me to shoot a sock at him...... it left a healthy bruise)

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN I have 3 hobbies: gaming, DJing & correcting maladjusted fools on the internet.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN Yeah, I’d like to know what horrible, scarring incident in your childhood turned you into such an ignorant, intellectual-hating philistine?

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Originally posted by colonelcrisp you now have a loaded potatoe cannon with a perfect 5:2 ratio of O2 and C2H2 in the chamber. this has a huge punch and will easily launch a potatoe a couple hundred yards.

i never thought dan quayle would be browsing the CORe

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Originally posted by lucid pro tip: if you value your life, NEVER do anything that will place you "outside" of the jonze circle of trust.

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Originally posted by Sunsnail gonna try and make one with a friend this weekend. anyone got any tips or recommendations?

Going to try? Its like the easiest thing to do.... if you fail at making one, you FAIL at life!

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On OOKA-OOKA ME NACHOS ME PRESS KEYS ON COMPUTER GOOD

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Originally posted by jonze i never thought dan quayle would be browsing the CORe

haha

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