Hey (Some advice plz)

[Spud]

hey everyone im new in the fantastic world of potato shooting ive been reading some of the other thread's and you guy's are pretty smart. especially the no spark-plug ignition that was awsome i was just wanting to see if anyone had any advice for me? i beleive this will be a fun thing to do (considering i like making explosives) ;D well it's time for me to go bye...

[aetherguy881]

Talking about explosive ammo, or anything can get you banned so.. if you don't want to be banned don't talk about explosives and check with your local police dpt. just to check out if you won't break any laws.

TRUST ME I KNOW

[Spud]

one thing though (When you spray hairspray or ether or anything (Explosive)in the chamber and you light it what do you think it does?? it goes BOOM therefore i consider it an Explosive Devise)

[aetherguy881]

ok I just thought you were talking about anarchism, my dad busted me just for reading some of the stuff but still be very careful

[Roach]

really, thats sucks... my parents dont know what stuff i do, becuz i dont let them.... my dad checks my comp every so often and he doesn't find anything, becuz i know how to cover my tracks, recently tho, he found gunpowder, Mg ribbon, butane cans, fireworks and many different explosive devices in my room, he said that he used to do that as a kid and he doesn't care...... about laws and such, dont get caught, i have never been caught... i have broken so many laws its not funny.... but i know enuf t think before hand, i know that the fuse on the "device" will burn for 35 seconds before it goes, and that if someone calls the cops, it will take them 15 minutes to get there, so i have enuf time to survey the destruction......... again, just think and ont get caught....... community service and fines are bad things

[aetherguy881]

well I mean explosives that are ment for property destruction, though I still have some unused bp but that's all i'm gonna say

[Spud]

;D i did have one encounter with an experimental firecracker i made...i accidentally had some gunpowder that got on the fuse and it took alot less than 35 sec.

[blowemupspudguy]

if you want to make a potato gun for not much $ try a pneumatic before a combustion. they have a much wider range of ammo(water rocks!) and you can make a simple one for under $20 that can be powered by a bike pump. im sellin potato guns for my job this summer, so iv been tryin to come up with the cheapest gun that is the simplest to make(i bought all the parts but for a tire valve for under $15 at home depot, and assembled the thing in under 45min. the valve i bought from an auto zone) it has no twists or turns just a chamber, valve, then barrel. everything is assembled from 1 1/2in pvc, it's layed out like this: (all pvc pipes and fittings are 1 1/2in unless i say otherwise)

end cap(with the tire valve pushed through a hole in it), a 3ft piece of pvc pipe, a pvc coupling, a 1 1/2in to 1/2in reducing brushing, a 1/2in diameter by 2in iron pipe nipple(wrap it on the treads on both sides with teflon pipe tape), a 1/2in threaded ball valve(with the lever facing away from the chamber when the valve is open), another iron pipe nipple(this time 4in long, wrap it with the pipe tape like the first one), another reducing brushing, another pvc coupling, a flush female addapter(it has to be flush), a male pvc addapter, another pvc pipe(it should be no more than four feet long)

that's it, just glue all the pvc together. i assemble all the guns i build in the store without the glue or pipe tape to make sure im not gonna go home and find im missing somthing. there is no gauge on this gun so when you fill it up you need to check it with a tire gauge. i have a nice ellectric one that reads up to somewhere over 150psi(iv never tryied it past that) at 100psi my gun will fire a potato 150/200+yds, which isn't all that impressive compaired to other cannons i sell, but for the price...

oh! and don't make the mistake i made today, i filled the gun up with water to test fire it because im selling it tomorow and filled it up to 90psi: when i fired it the kickback was so big it broke the back of my test stand and slamed into the ground, this is the same stand that i tested a basic hybrid cannon on that i sold to a friend last week. that cannon fires a spud straight accros a 1mi lake and this gun filled up with water made a bigger kickback than it does!

[aetherguy881]

blowemupguy this is not the place to just start talking about your summer buisness on a thread tat is completely different, try starting your own thread, and potato launching buisiness, well hmmm that is kinda tough to do unless you have lots of buyers

[blowemupspudguy]

i wasn't tryin to talk about my job, i was stayin on the orignal subject by giving some advice. sorry if i went off about what i do for $, but goin on about explosives isn't exactly on topic eather.

[blowemupspudguy]

now that i reread what i said, i wasn't tryin to advertize. i don't even sell to people i haven't met. i don't stand a chance against spudtech.com anyway.

[spudmaster]

lol, u got to becarful about selling cuz if sum idiot blows himself up its ur fault

[blowemupspudguy]

yeah that would suck, i give huge disclamers when i sell stuff and i haven't sold to anyone that i don't trust yet. i think im gonna try to build a tiny gun that shoots grapes at a low psi with a ball valve and a mini bike pump permantly attached so that they can't go to a higher pressure even if they wanted too, it'd be for like people that want somthing they can trust their 10 year old not to hurt anybody with.
anyway sorry for getting off subject, carry on