Boom!

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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Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:12 pm

Use a Bar-B-Que igniter, save a camra. Or go all out, get a stun gun set up.
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Sun Apr 08, 2007 4:49 am

try using something like 'start ya bastard' for fuel. any car starting sprays. the couple of types i have tried contain like 24% ether. very good for this type of application. don't use wd-40 or flyspray or anything like that you need something that wont easily gum up or liquify on the walls of the chamber. because if you use something that sticks to the walls it doesn't explode and then when you try again the new fuel finds it much easier to stick aswell and you need to let it dry or something.
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Sun Apr 08, 2007 7:05 pm

UdderDestruction wrote:I Call it Boom!, I think my freind and i are going to use a capacitor from a camera as the igniting mechanism any other simple suggestions are appreciated! And Yes this is my first potato cannon
is that from "Backyard Ballistics" if its not great job but there is one in there that looks exactly like it and thats what mine looks like. if you dont have the book get it cuz its pretty cool
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Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:02 pm

nope i just asked a guy at home depot about the body and devised that i use a throwaway camera because i had just made the whole disposable camera tazer and i saw that it sparks
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