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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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ProfessorAmadeus
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Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:18 pm

Ok Stop you bitching. For a remote ignition you can use a stungun and wire a remote relay to it. One that i found online is 15 dollars for the relay and you can use your tv remote to set it off. So about 40 bucks for the whole set up.
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Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:39 pm

:P holy shit i used map gas on my launcher once it fly at least 3 times as far as regular white rain hairspray and white rain flyies far
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Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:19 pm

well since you brought this back up, i got another bottel of oxy to use :P with my cannon
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Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:03 pm

Be careful with pure oxygen then, make sure you know what your doing.
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Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:24 pm

god damnit im tired of people telling me to be carfull with oxy/mapp, if i blow my ass apart doing what i find to be intertaining well all i hope is they get it on video, on a lighter note oh my god it shoot the tater so fast and makes so much noise its cool, i fire it at a swamp and its really funny watchin birds scater plus theres no one around
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Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:44 pm

Just be careful anyways. We don't need bad publicity and laws against spudguns. You blow yourself up and all of us pay for it.
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Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:08 pm

Im new to this also, and im in the process of making my spudgun now.

Im going to use mapp gas also, and hopefully a PICmicrocontroller, and two sprinkler solenoids.

My plan is to program the microcontroller to open solenoid 1, then close. Start the ignitor, then open solenoid 2. I will control the amount of gas by the length of time solenoid 1 is open.

My first prototype will probably be manually controlled. Im still learning to program in BASIC.
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Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:45 am

schmanman wrote:mrcrowley said
was that just to get your ranks up as well?
no, I never post just to get my ranks up. and like you have any room to speak. you joined three months after me, and you have around 100 posts more than me already.
i put "jk" after i said that, jk=jokes, just happenede to be the only thing you didnt quote from that sentance :wink: jk
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Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:48 am

You bunch of whining skirts...
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Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:19 am

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:36 am

im not, im just saying that i was joking so we can be on good terms with each other which we are.
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