The Harley Davidson Tribute Cannon

Slugfoot · Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:15 pm

Beautiful cannon......ruined.

schmanman · Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:24 pm

wow, I really like it. nice paint job. ha, my uncle rides Harley's too. he has a roadmaster with tons of stuff on it.

drac, you saved the cam-locks and stuff, right? It looks like a nice cannon you made, but the chamber design is a bit odd. but then again, trial and error like that is how spud guns became this advanced.

MikeNice · Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:43 am

Chamber is 4 x18 barrel is 2 x 48. I know if you do the math it comes nowhere near the golden 1.5:1 C:B ratio, but I have experimented with longer barrels and it just doesn't see to shoot as well. This is a way kick ass powerful gun, I've blown holes in at least 1/2" plywood with a gun of the exact same measurements using a potato and Right Guard (before they ruined it). The sizes I used for it work extremely well. I've also messed around with ignition point placement and have found no advantage to placing them across from each other in a line. You may know something I don't TaTer, but this is working pretty good for me. I'll dig up the pic of the plywood sign I blasted and put it up here. I'm glad ya'll dig the gun. Hey Slugfoot . . . "Beautiful cannon......ruined. " ?????? I think I missed it.

SpudBlaster15 · Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:56 am

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MikeNice · Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:38 am

When I was expeimenting barrel lengths I was doing hangtime tests. I built a wood stand that held it prety close to vertical. Although I wasn't using metered propane to get a perfectly consistant fuel load, and I WAS using potatos which may have varied a few ounces, overall, the 48" barrel had consistantly longer hangtimes than the 50", 52", 54", 56", and 62" barrels that I was testing. (I had to look back at my notes for those) Obviously the fact that I wasn't using a measurable fuel load or consistantly weighted projectiles may have caused some variation in the results but overall I've been pretty satisfied with the conclusion of the 48" barrel working the best with my guns. Believe me if a diferent barrel did better I would have used that length. I was going for max power without having to step into metered propane. "Inefficiency is not something you should deliberatly seek." I couldn't agree with you more. These measurements do pretty well and I wouldn't say it's loud as hell, but it's pretty loud. Someday I'll get around to putting all the results on a spreadsheet and I'll post them somewhere.

SpudBlaster15 · Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:49 pm

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MikeNice · Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:01 pm

No, I've never used a chamber fan but I do use dual ignition to hopefully ignite as much as possible. I've had plans for a long time to build a metered propane, stun gun powered, gun with a chamber fan. I've been pretty content with the simplicity / power of the guns I have built so far though so I'm in no real rush with those.

SpudBlaster15 · Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:26 pm

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MikeNice · Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:44 pm

Depending on the barrel I was getting a lot of 10-12's with the occasional 13-14 throwing my averages off. The 48" barrel averaged mid 12's. What do you power a chamber fan with? I'm starting to really think about putting one in since you say it makes that big of a difference. Maybe I'll get out one of these weekends and do some hang time tests with and without a chamber fan . . . .

King_TaTer · Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:54 pm

well considering fans run on electricity you should use a battery. but I do think that it is sweet you got up to 14 secs of hang time...pretty sweet. also if you want to find out the ideal C:B ratio for certian porjectiles visit this site

http://www.burntlatke.com/

SpudBlaster15 · Sun Dec 10, 2006 4:20 pm

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