Never use ether in a pill bottle cannon!

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Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:02 am

OUCH!! Guess i wont try that!!
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Damn man, that sucks. Atleast your'e ok, well for the most part.
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One phrase sums this situation up pretty good. "That was smart."
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Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:18 am

Suggestion if a may, For pill bottles i would cover them with duct tape so it doesent shard when i blows. All it will do is let out heat and then you know that you need to make another gun.
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Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:48 pm

Duct tape wouldn't do anything. Think about it, if its powerful enough to rip plastic to peices why would duct tape stop it?
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Maybe if you use 2 or 3 rolls of it. But if it did work and it just let the heat out be prepared for the worst burn in your life. It happened to me.
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Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:10 am

Thats what happened to me when I used a big pill bottle.
first the lid blu off (It was so bloody loud my ears were ringing for ages) so I thought if I put the lid on tighter it wouldn't blow off so I did that and guess well happen the lid blu up in to many peices. Lucky for me I learned from my first mistake and I was wearing safty glasses and i was looking away when it happened.
It didn't even have any ammo in the barrel :shock:
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Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:53 pm

Yeah maybe if you use 2 or 3 full rolls but who is gonna waste that much duct tape
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Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:59 pm

you wouldn't use duct tape at all. it has the bursting strength of 4 psi. just go buy 5 inches of 1.5" sch 40, a cleanout/ 1.5" ballvalve and a an endcap.
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Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:34 pm

Pill bottles work fine for minis, you have to use the orange type.
In a mini duct tape would work.
You wouldn't have to put alot either.
3-4 layers should work.
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I prefer the pvc method with minis. Check out <a href="http://forums.spudtech.com/topic.asp?TO ... y">Tiny</a>.

Yeah, I should paint it. Other than that, I think it's bad ass. I think it's the smallest onboard propane meter on any cannon.
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Sat Dec 02, 2006 9:48 am

on one of my pill bottle guns i used some big plastic vitamin bottle from gnc and no matter what i put in it instead of breaking it would just shoot the entire barrel about 200ft(or at the drywall in my basment)
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Sat Dec 02, 2006 3:26 pm

200ft out of a mini?bs.maybe you were kidding.
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yeah i was, but it whent far for a mini
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