Hey Guys. So I am deciding on getting a bigger valve, and since I don't have much time now to try to build my own (as well as the fact that this cannon is for the school actually so its better I get a valve made by someone knowing what they are doing), I decided with getting the mauler vavle.
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Hey Guys. So I am deciding on getting a bigger valve, and since I don't have much time now to try to build my own (as well as the fact that this cannon is for the school actually so its better I get a valve made by someone knowing what they are doing), I decided with getting the mauler vavle.
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Hi guys. Thanks for all the inputs. As for measuring kinetic energy, the problem is I would need to measure the energy when the ball leaves, and then again after it rebounces off the pad (The project is to measure force reduction from these chest pads). It would be very difficult to try to measure ...

I used some napkins to cover the baseball when loading it in the barrel. I did this to try give the baseball a good seal in the cannon.

Thanks for the Welcome. I hope to get a lot of help from this forum (and give help where I can, still a noob).

Yea I forgot to mention, this is a baseball launching setup. Some person came to us and asked us to test out a chest pad they "invented" for little league players. So I am firing a little ...

Hi Guys. I've created a pneumatic spud gun that fires by electric actuation. The chamber and barrel are made of PVC. The valve is a sprinkler valve. The gun actually works, and fires fine. The problem is that I'm running impact tests for a school project and I can't seem to get consistent forces ...