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SpudFiles Potato Gun Commercial

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by PCGUY » Tue Oct 29, 2013 10:54 pm » in Combustion Cannons
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I've been wanting to get in some spud shooting action this fall before the weather got cold. I know it's been a while since I filmed anything for...

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thank you for creating this website is there anything i can do to help
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Sketchup Model Library

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by dewey-1 » Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:12 pm
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Over the last year I have made a lot of CAD drawings for
Pneumatic Launchers.

I have imported several of them into Sketchup format.
Here is the link...

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Bollocks. Dewey put them out in the hope that, and I quote

some of you can make use of these!

There's absolutely nothing wrong with using them,...
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Mon May 20, 2024 11:17 am
Solvent Welding Course Recommended For ALL

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by sgort87 » Fri Aug 04, 2006 8:18 pm
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Originally posted by DR on the Spudtech forums:

IPEX Solvent Cements ONLINE Course can be found here:

It is recommended that you download and...

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Your earlier post about just scoring the surface, has me wondering if that is why OATEY makes a brush tool that scores the inside of a fitting, and...
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Thu Dec 02, 2010 5:04 pm

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Long combustion chamber HELP

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by valentinesc » Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:28 pm
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Hello: My scouts made a potato cannon using a plan they saw on the net. Well when they went shopping they bought the wrong size pipe for the chamber....

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Ya know, I've done a lot of spraying and praying with that old $0 combustion I built, with everything from MAPP to spraypaint. It takes practice, but...
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Last post by Fnord
Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:37 pm
bouncing betty

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by kydavies » Thu Apr 05, 2012 1:35 am

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I don't play airsoft but i figured this would be fun to build (if it were to work, i know the firing mech needs to be reworked)

If you don't see how...

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Ok, well it depends on the acceleration of the piston and the chamber/body. Of you had to you/I could angle the barrels up by about 5 degrees to...

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Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:49 pm
Southeast, USA, Spudfest 2009!!!

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by jeepkahn » Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:31 am

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Ok peeps, lets get this thing going...

Looking at having a Spudfest/Spudstock for the southeastern US spudders, as well as anyone else that's...

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i to am in savannah and am looking for others in the area that wont to hang out and talk spud guns and maby fire some cannons any one?

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Last post by spcolsson
Sun Apr 08, 2012 9:24 pm
is it worth it?

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by jsefcik » Fri Apr 06, 2012 9:12 pm

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i was looking a rifled pvc pipe for spudguns( on spudguntechnolgy center.com)

they say its 50 percent increase in distance? is it worth the money...

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Rifling will improve your accuracy, but not the power/distance your cannon produces. Depending on your ammo rifling may well increase the distance...

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Last post by jimmy101
Sat Apr 07, 2012 12:38 pm
Nice find, and barrel length question.

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by Selador » Fri Apr 06, 2012 4:12 pm
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Ok, first of all, I have been gone a while, so please forgive me if this has been covered before.

I am diabetic. I shoot up pig dope , (insulin),...

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Ok, I guess it's back to the old gut build. Where I build it the way my gut tells me to build it.

It's worked before, hopefully it will work this...
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Sat Apr 07, 2012 12:28 pm
I'm looking for some suggestions for 2" Ammo

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by Yukondano2 » Fri Apr 06, 2012 7:23 pm

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I built a fairly simple 2 barreled pneumatic spud gun awhile back and I've been unable to come up with any creative ideas for ammo. I'd prefer not to...

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The 23 page thread Zeus mentioned.

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Fri Apr 06, 2012 9:02 pm
Nail gun conversion.

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by warhead052 » Thu Mar 29, 2012 12:10 pm

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So I had an idea which has probably been done before, but nail guns could be used as a bb gun. I saw an animation that had a pneumatic nail gun and...

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A typical nail gun does NOT exhaust air, the air is used to push a large diameter piston that acts like a hammer to push the nails to the wall.

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Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:34 pm
How to: fill a paintball tank with a shock/bike pump

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by killerbanjo » Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:27 am

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Warning lots of low quality webcam pictures :D

Ok so you want to fill a paintball tank with air at home? Well with this you can fill your air or...

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Buy a stirrup pump and offer to fill bottles for your local airgun club, get paid to keep fit :D

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Last post by jackssmirkingrevenge
Fri Mar 30, 2012 2:35 pm
Golf balls galore!

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by limbeh » Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:38 am

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Came across this randomly, golf ball cannon owners might wanna look this guy up. He's selling em cheap.

Those of you in CA area might wanna...

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Great. In my country, golf balls are kinda expensive since hardly anyone plays golf there xcept the rich.

Not that I shoot them though, I have yet...

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Last post by limbeh
Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:31 am
Pump problems.

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by warhead052 » Tue Mar 20, 2012 1:37 pm
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I am having a problem with my pump head sealing and compressing the air. I dunno why its not working, because the O-rings are a nice fit, and I can...

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Well, no fridgy after all... But on the upside I made a few tens from my dad's boss for fixing the fridge's. The only problem, which I didn't point...
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Last post by warhead052
Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:32 pm
pneumatic or combustion

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by beastmode986 » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:02 pm

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Ok I have 30$ to spend on a cannon I'm saving the rest of my money for a different project anyway I want something powerful and accurate but 30$ US...

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Unless you want to carry around a damn air compressor, go combustion.

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Thu Mar 22, 2012 6:58 pm
How to: Pilot valve for QEV

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by wyz2285 » Wed Mar 21, 2012 3:31 pm

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Hello :)
As a lot of people don´t know what to use as a pilot valve for QEV, or how to get multiple shoots out of one tank, so here is a simple way...

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Yes, but he used a qev, I'm going to use a chamber seal piston valve. Also small calibre.

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Last post by wyz2285
Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:34 am
Technical advice needed for TB launcher

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by shinyhead » Fri Mar 09, 2012 10:59 pm
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I want to build an easily portable tennis ball launcher for my young son to practice cricket and tennis with similar basic abilities as this...

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That sounds like a perfect option for me as average velocity is probably more appropriate for my project. Thanks mate.

Luckily footy season is...
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Last post by shinyhead
Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:56 pm
Is your spud gun visible from space?

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by D_Hall » Tue Mar 13, 2012 1:31 pm
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Mine is.

Yeah, yeah... I know. I just had to start a thread with that title. :)

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You might want to try running this by slashdot, wired, and a few of the other tech news sites. I remember a bowling ball cannon that wasn't nearly as...
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Last post by Fnord
Sat Mar 17, 2012 12:45 pm
Q.E.V. Gaskets

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by mattyzip77 » Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:08 pm

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I got one of those asco 1 1/2 inch q e v's that everyone was buying a few years back and I think the smaller gasket needs replacing. Anyone know...

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Formagasket would fit this application nicely.

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Last post by evanmcorleytv
Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:41 pm
has DYI joined the Mythbusters 0_o

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by jackssmirkingrevenge » Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:57 pm
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Amusing footnote: The reporting calls himself Alan Wong but his name appears as Alan Wang :roll: :D

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Some more missed backstop fun :D

Sadly no video of the actual shot seems available, but here's the aftermath:
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Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:49 am
DIY Shoot N See Target

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by Hubb » Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:37 am

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Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:37 am
Ugh, more bad press "potato gun" kills 21 year old

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by clide » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:23 pm
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Never mind the fact that he turned it into a pipe bomb by putting an explosive powder inside it.

The Sioux County Sheriff's office responded...

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A man was injured and his wife killed when a cannon was fired into a mobile home in San Diego's East County.

That sounds like it was aimed at the...
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Last post by jackssmirkingrevenge
Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:32 am
Suppressor packing

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by warhead052 » Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:39 pm

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I need some ideas for the packing in a suppressor. I made the basic type, just a tube with 2 holes drilled in it for the ammo to go through, with a...

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Yeah, I agree with Tech. Lets veer off of the firearms. I'm not worried about those, to me the louder the better with them.

As to what you posted...

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Last post by warhead052
Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:04 am
Spud Gun Fired By President Obama

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by D_Hall » Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:24 pm
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Who ever said the hobby doesn't get any positive press?

LINK

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and don't bring up the porn-thread either JSR!

:D :D :D

There's a porn thread?
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Last post by jackssmirkingrevenge
Sat Feb 25, 2012 1:12 am
An experiment: PVC meets flesh

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by D_Hall » Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:44 pm
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No, it's not as bad as it looks.

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D_hall, I can print these out and show some of my friends right? I have a few friends who want to make cannons and put 300-800 psi into pvc, and this...
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Last post by mattyzip77
Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:01 pm
Question about aerosol valves:

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by Essohbe » Wed Feb 22, 2012 5:05 pm

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Hi all,

I just joined so forgive me if it's been asked (yes I tried the search function and it kept telling me I had to wait) but I am interested in...

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Just another one I found by looking around. Slightly different same result though and possibly easier to do depending on what you have lying around.

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Last post by battlelava
Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:30 pm
Exploding Shockpump

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by Goats spudz » Wed Feb 15, 2012 8:20 pm

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I was pumping my gun today and about 350 psi the aluminium housing came out of the black bottom and nearly hit me in the face, it scared me half to...

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Pictures would be nice :) Sorry jack but it's just the same as your's i think the threaded part was a bit loose on mine, it works now i had to find...

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Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:31 pm
Youtuber hamsterboy 13

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by Brian the brain » Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:50 pm

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I regret to inform you that you-tuber hamsterboy13 has died february 6th.
His real name was Andre de Wever.
He replied to some of our video's...

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Tragic news... You can't take too much care with HE's

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Wed Feb 15, 2012 8:51 pm
Lapped Sealing Faces

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by DYI » Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:37 pm

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Has anyone here attempted to use a two piece lapping technique to mate gas gun main valve sealing faces? If the process can be done well enough to...

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what is a metal like lead (soft metal) as a sealing face? would it be better for seal metal to metal?
what forces would i need to dip in the...

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Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:45 pm

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