My first Pneumatic Cannon Showcase... but will it blow

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

PLEASE DONT TELL ME IM STUPID PLEASE DONT TELL ME THE SPRING GOES ON TOP !!!!!!!!!
(sorry if theres a all caps rule but seriously dont tell me)

LOL!

The spring is supposed to keep the diaphragm closed

[sumisukyo]

OW JEEZ plz get me a diaper or at least a bit of candy for this sulking NOOB

[Technician1002]

PLEASE DONT TELL ME IM STUPID PLEASE

You left yourself wide open.. I can't resist..

OK I won't tell you you are stupid.. We will keep it a secret.


Thanks, I'll be here all week.

[Gaderelguitarist]

Shocked OW JEEZ Embarassed plz get me a diaper or at least a bit of candy for this sulking NOOB

Nothing to be ashamed of, unless you have any pride.

[sumisukyo]

Ok replaced all the parts with metal and placed a safety valve on the tank so I can let them amount of pressure i want into the system.
PS the gun had a tiny leak which u can hear as I turn it on fixed it with epoxy

lol idiot brother held the camera upside down thank god for movie maker or it would be stuck that way XD

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ill try and get the sound fixed it happens when I rotate it ??
heres the upside down with sound
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[jackssmirkingrevenge]

Are you going to add a magazine? A simple tee should suffice, something like this

[Technician1002]

Listening to the shot, the pilot was open for a long time. Either a larger pilot valve or a smaller EQ leak between the chamber and pilot can improve trigger speed and reduce the amount of chamber pressure lost to the pilot when it is fired.

[sumisukyo]

Are you going to add a magazine? A simple tee should suffice, something like this

Ya I will as soon as iv worked out the kinks just looking for regulator at 300 psi with an intake of higher than 1800psi so i can turn the gas on and leave it. semi auto here I come

Listening to the shot, the pilot was open for a long time. Either a larger pilot valve or a smaller EQ leak between the chamber and pilot can improve trigger speed and reduce the amount of chamber pressure lost to the pilot when it is fired.

OK now in layman's terms. please give me a better description I'm still getting used to the terminology

[Technician1002]

In layman's terms you pulled the trigger. The air hissed for a while out the trigger valve before the main valve popped.

Due to the leakage in most pistons between the air storage chamber and the pilot where the trigger is, this allows some of your chamber pressure to bleed off while the trigger is letting out air before the cannon fires.

Reducing the amount of air lost while firing results in higher pressure in the chamber when it does fire.

The two ways to reduce the air lost is to improve the speed of the trigger by using a larger trigger valve and reducing the rate the air can blow from the chamber to the pilot area.

Listen to the video just before the cannon goes off. Notice the long hiss.

Here is the hiss followed by the boom of another cannon.

Using Audacity or other sound editor you can view the sound of your cannon and measure the length of time it hisses before it fires.

[Crna Legija]

Is that your house? its fuken huge

[sumisukyo]

In layman's terms you pulled the trigger. The air hissed for a while out the trigger valve before the main valve popped.

Due to the leakage in most pistons between the air storage chamber and the pilot where the trigger is, this allows some of your chamber pressure to bleed off while the trigger is letting out air before the cannon fires.

Reducing the amount of air lost while firing results in higher pressure in the chamber when it does fire.

The two ways to reduce the air lost is to improve the speed of the trigger by using a larger trigger valve and reducing the rate the air can blow from the chamber to the pilot area.

Listen to the video just before the cannon goes off. Notice the long hiss.

Here is the hiss followed by the boom of another cannon.

Using Audacity or other sound editor you can view the sound of your cannon and measure the length of time it hisses before it fires.

OWWWWWW no no no as i said just before the video there was a leak through some epoxy fixed it no more hissing

Is that your house? its fuken huge

South Africa my friend its 10 rand to the dollar work out how much ur living costs you then times it by ten and thats how I'm living , that is why we moved when America offered my dad a job in South Africa.

[sumisukyo]

Hi guys almost DONE YAY !!!
just need the regulator and its all finished
added a tee feeder today for the ammo but I felt stupid having it in the way where I want my scope so I tried moving it to the side but feeding was still too manual so... I added a home made spring and tada* an automatic 10 ball feeding system
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slight tilt of about 80 degrees for the last ball to fall into place
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Home-made with scooby-doo wire(craft wire) (not soldering but just as malleable)
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just letting it dry in a decent potion so its currently upside down.
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This is where the leak was but its fixed no problem, but in a messy job ill build the 2nd one much neater I promise

Edit:

Ok today I researched and built a silencer with items around my house
Insulation or stuffing Foam
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Pop-up Sprinkler housing
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And Viola* !
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Reduced the sound by 20 decibels thats the difference between a park and a whisper OMF it was amazing so simple and fun ;D
Hope to hear fead back on anything you wish me to add thinking of adding the barrel grip next

[sumisukyo]

Sorry that this is a double post but....

IM FUCKEN FINISHED MATRIC NO MORE SCHOOL FUCK YA !!!!!!!!

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

Looking good, some videos of it in action would be nice

[sumisukyo]

Found a Regulator
It's an oxygen but should work fine
had to make some major adjustments for it to fit though as the fittings are build to be used only for the blow torch,
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sooo thats that cant wait until tomorrow
I used Epoxy Putty to to this.