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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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tylerthetatertosser
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Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:26 pm

a grill ignighter works fine i use on on mine and i have a double arc
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Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:25 am

thanks all of you guys, and as everyone said, Tada Biger Barrel
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Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:33 am

Sweet, What kinda range you get now?
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Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:00 am

hey mate quick "q" does the silencer help because im think of making one for my new gun?
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Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:53 pm

havnt measured anything yet but much more than befor, probably twice as much. and what would be a good silencer packer? i was thinking of using steel wool, works in cars
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:21 am

yer i was thinking coz i saw on another post those foam pool noodles i think they would be a good packing.
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:29 am

Apparently fiberglass insulation works very well for silencers.
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:53 am

zeigs spud wrote: mabey paint that butterfly valve black tho?
it's a ball valve...

and nice gun! i am hoping to make a large combustion with propane metering too. you just inspired me all the more!

and are you gonna put up pics of the longer barrel?
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:33 pm

I just measured my full cb size and i was way off from what i thought it was, it can be filled with 27 cups of water, that equals out to 390 ci
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Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:29 pm

Yea that look nice, i like the ballvalve vent idea from gort lol,i actall y have one of those at my house (the Blue falme, actally Red Flame)
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Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:57 pm

I might put a check valve on it soon
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Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:37 pm

Dan thats not ur gun stop posting about my shit.
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Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:40 pm

Now that he's off are you just posting on all his threads that you did it?
Not that I disagree with you, he was irritating.
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Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:27 pm

nice gun, how 'bout some damage pics?
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Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:31 pm

mabee you could try a transformer frome radioshack, just wired in reverse. i.e. a 50:1 transformer wold bring a 9v to 450v ive never done it but mabee you could try?
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