Gort's 12" Diameter Cannon (5 Gallon Buckets!)

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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Mon Jan 01, 2007 3:49 am

You saw the mythbusters guys?
Haham tell me about it spudstuff, and so my post osn'tr meaningless.
Gort is this gun still working? If so you should launch a GI Joe with a parachute on his back.
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Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:11 am

Have you concidered actually shooting somone out of it?I would voulonteer in an instant,and no im not just being stupid i really would.Anyway you should test it with about 140 lbs of weight in it and see how high it goes if it doesn't go super high(over 10 feet or so)I would do that in an instant!
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Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:22 pm

i don't think that should be called a connon lol.....more of a bomb...nice cannon :P
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Mon Jan 01, 2007 5:51 pm

I thought you said it shouldn't be called a cannon :wink: .
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