Potato gun in the winter?

Blackspire · Sun Sep 17, 2006 11:06 am

I've never shot a potato gun in the winter, and I'm just wondering if the ABS will become brittle because of the cold? I'm talking cold as in, canadian winter cold...-20 celcius.

WOW!! · Sun Sep 17, 2006 11:17 am

Iam not good with the C to F but I guess that is WAYY to cold. I know if it was PVC it would blow up. I am not to sure about ABS. But I would'nt try it.

SpudStuff · Sun Sep 17, 2006 11:42 am

yes you don't want to risk it.

Blackspire · Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:27 pm

Damn, I kinda knew that was coming haha. Looks like it will have to go into hibernation for a couple months. If you kept it somewhere warm, and then took it out for a couple minutes it would be fine though. As long as you don't have it out long enough to let the plastic become brittle, it would be fine.

POS · Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:29 pm

Use metal once in winter period, i should say.

Blackspire · Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:44 pm

If I had a mig welder in my garage I would make once, since I am a welder

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dinsdale · Sun Sep 17, 2006 2:00 pm

Fire it out a window

POS · Sun Sep 17, 2006 2:01 pm

Cant you use couplers or soldering the things together, instead of welding ?

Blackspire · Sun Sep 17, 2006 5:07 pm

If I made it out of metal, I would probably use oxy-acetylene in it, so it would be pretty beefy.

WOW!! · Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:39 pm

You could take towels and wrap the, all over the cannon to keep it warm. And fill it some were warm and like dinsdale said try it out a window.

Blackspire · Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:16 pm

WOW!! wrote:You could take towels and wrap the, all over the cannon to keep it warm. And fill it some were warm and like dinsdale said try it out a window.

Not that I don't trust my potato gun, but I don't want to risk shooting it from inside just incase it did blow. And come to think of it, there are no windows I know of that are in a suitable spot to shoot a potato gun..

POS · Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:52 am

blowing inside is the least you should worry about. Worry about it blowing in your hands ...

boilingleadbath · Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:56 pm

Google indicates that ABS is fairly tolerant of low temps - and I suspect that the pressure rise in a cannon is slow enough that it's increased brittelness shouldn't matter.

If your lawyer asks, though, I DID NOT tell you this.

ProfessorAmadeus · Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:59 pm

If i where you, i just wouldn't shoot it in the winter.... Plus i dont like being outside in the cold.

Blackspire · Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:06 pm

ProfessorAmadeus wrote:If i where you, i just wouldn't shoot it in the winter.... Plus i dont like being outside in the cold.

I live in an igloo, remember? Me being cold isn't the issue. I'm just not sure about the heating up and cooling down..Whatever, I guess it will just have to go into hibernation.