I have some quick disconnects on the hoses I should've used on all ends but two are hose barbs coming off the meter. Oh well. The hoses have paint on them or something once it all falls off I'll either leave it red or wrap it with blacktape.
I went for a OD green/military color look.
It's a 4" pvc chamber and 3"/70mm barrel. I built a way to load the breech from the top intead of chucking cans down the front. The main armature I welded extra pipe I had laying around and the cannon is mounted to that.
It has a 12v fan I wired to a pushbutton and two 9v batteries.
The firing mechanism is a piezo button above the breech and two stainless electrodes in the chamber.
Open breech:
Closed breech:
When I get vid of it firing I'll post it. I'llhave to jsut shoot regular cans out of it for posting cause they don't like you talking about shooting pyro payloads, etc...
It's pretty heavy but it's awesome.
I wanted a 6" chamber and 3" barrel but didn't want to pay for the fittings so the chamber had to be a little longer for the 4" but I think it looks fine and is well balanced as you hold it. I think if Iused a 6" chamber the barrel would stick out farther than the chamber to the point it would want to tip down when you hold it. Right now the center of gravity is pretty much right where you hold it and fire it so it's staying like this.
I'll make a rocket-launcher type next, hopefully out of all steel, and it will fire glass bottles full of napalm and stee.... I mean nevermind...
but they are crappy to begin with. I got a new one and was careful to put all inlets through double wall areas.
