What did you start with?

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What did you start with?

Pneumatic
26
53%
basic cumbustion
21
43%
advanced combustion
1
2%
The unlikely hybrid
1
2%
 
Total votes: 49
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n-strike
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Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:09 pm

Ball Valve Pneumatic.
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Hotwired
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Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:15 pm

A pneumatic.

It was a very odd design... it was a pressurised broom handle and the valve was a short plastic tube with one sealed end. Which was also the barrel.

Pushing the barrel further into the broom handle exposed holes cut into the side of the plastic tube and shot out the pencil or pen or whatever was in there.
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Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:42 pm

Basic Combustion for me!

lol, might wanna check your spelling of "combustion" on the poll :lol:
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Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:55 pm

I built my first gun about 16 years ago ( yeah I'm dating myself). It was a spray n pray....2'x4" chamber, 2'x2" barrel, with a match hole ignition.

I got burned a few times before it self combusted.....

I left it primed and loaded in the hot sun. It melted and caught on fire, I may still have it somewhere!
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Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:04 am

A melted cannon? :lol:
I would love to see a pic of that jr! :D
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Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:56 pm

I'll try to find it!
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Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:07 am

My first was a fanned, regulated, propane injected ABS combustion with a 0.7:1 C:B ratio and a ten foot barrel.
Stupid quote of the now:
joestue "The chamber is rated to 100 psi, it don't say that on the side, but the 2 inch stuff is rated to 300, so by analogy..."
"only the last two feet hear the end is black cellular core"
"I'm taking it to 300 psi"
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