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.
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Xielothan
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Tue Sep 16, 2014 4:37 pm
I am working on the somewhat ambitious project of a semi-automatic combustion cannon. I've looked around on the internet a little bit and haven't really been able to find any that are close to what i am hoping to build. I'd love to have your feedback on my designs, and how i would go around actually getting the thing to work.

This is how i plan on loading and firing each marble. I think it should work, but i am a little worried how well the latex tubing will hold up.

these are my original sketches, if you can decipher them.
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dart guy
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Tue Oct 28, 2014 6:32 pm
No, just gonna say that tubing will melt after 1-2 fires, and that is just risky even with pneumatics, it would be interesting for pneumatics though. If I were you I would scrap the tubing idea and replace it with a simple detent or make it a blow forward bolt. Semi auto design? Unless your gas is mixed before with oxygen and another explosive gas and injected by pressure into the gun.Hope that helps.
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