Film container launcher

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Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:51 am

Wonder if it would go here but it's combustion anyway.

While messing around in my room, I came across some of my old notes I printed off websites that interested me. One site was this http://www.scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/ ... ermo2.html (Scroll Down)

Since I had some film containers in my room, I decided to give it a try but with a different approach. I put the wires through the container instead of the lid so I could fire the lid off. The ignitor is the piezo grill ignitor from my Econogun and I used a butane lighter for fuel.

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A few videos

Opened burn test fire
testfire.mov

Shooting the lid off
fire2.mov


Sticking a smaller film container into the first and launching.
canisterlaunch1.mov

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NOTE FROM PIMPMANN22: Moved from GSGQ to SCC. It belongs here because its a combustion cannon not a question. Thanks for making note to the problem in the original post. I also merge a double post.
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Ignition wires. I made a hole in the bottom of the film container to slip the wires in then covered the bottom with duct tape.
Ignition wires. I made a hole in the bottom of the film container to slip the wires in then covered the bottom with duct tape.
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Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:28 am

FIRE IN THE HOLE!!

Lol I just love mini-s. Good work!
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Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:12 pm

I made one of those with a Tylenol bottle that has a pop off top, It is about 3 times as large as the film containers. That was pretty loud
You can make these more like rockets if you put a nose cone and fins on it, couldnt make them too heavy though, you could put nails through the nose cones and make a few of them and have a game of mini lawn darts :D
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Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:29 pm

haha i made one with a film canister also but it had a disposable camera flash spark, but the cleaning lady threw it out by mistake :(
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Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:46 pm

hahaha, make her pay for it :lol: tell her it was some kind of collectors thing that could have sold for hundreds of thousands. She would probably have a heart attack
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Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:12 pm

a cleaner in as like a made who cleans your house
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Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:19 pm

wtf?
Join the spudshot forum!!!!!

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