Combustion BB Gun

Boom! The classic potato gun harnesses the combustion of flammable vapor. Show us your combustion spud gun and discuss fuels, ratios, safety, ignition systems, tools, and more.
cardinals08
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Sat Jan 28, 2006 4:25 pm

sorry for putting the post here, but for some reason I cant get to the submit combustion cannons page, so please move this post there
this is my BB gun, It took about 15 minutes to make
the chamber is a 10 ounce remote control airplane fuel tank
the barrel is just a black tube I found laying around
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Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:36 pm

Looks good! Are you going to put like a tripod to make it look like an M2 or something? That would make it ven more amazing! Is it very powerfull? I would have thought with that 10 ounce tank. You must need a lot of butane to power it, does the small piezo work in something that big very well?
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Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:26 pm

yeah, the piezo works amazingly, it gives me a spark about a half inch. It is smaller than the other piezos I have but seems more powerful. It uses about 5 seconds worth of butane. I havent been able to test it yet cause Ive been running around all over the place today so I have no Idea how much power it has. when i screw the barrel off and fill it up and click, it makes a huge flame and whistles. I am going to get some more caps to screw on the mouth of the tank so I can have more barrels.
I was hoping to make this the pneumatic, but the schraeder valve wouldnt stay in, the epoxy wouldnt hold, so I just stuck the lighter nozzle in the hole and it was a tighter fit, I will put some epoxy around this to make sure that it stays in
Ill let you know once i test it for how much power.
and by the way, I couldnt view your PM again Urban Ninja

Edit: about the tripod, I might do it, or something else, all depends on if I stop being lazy, and what I can find around the house. I have to find something to sleeve my barrel in also because it is bent
Im also going to make a combustion gun out of a travel size mouthwash bottle and a small tube that I dont even think a BB will fit in, just for $H1ts and giggles, Ill probably use needles in this
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Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:19 am

Yeah needles with a ting toilet paper tail. Ill send you an email with it in. For the bipod I just get 2 kebab skewers and tape them about an inch and a half together at the top. works for me if im too sleepy or lazy to make a metal one. I have found that a lot of my mini barrels are bent. Thats the only thing with them. Fiddly bas#*@s.
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Sun Jan 29, 2006 4:47 pm

Ill try making some kind of stand
and Urban Ninja, where are the double barrel shot gun damage pics?
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