Water Balloons

[noname]

I just wrap the water balloons in paper towels and it works fine.

[OwThatsMyEye]

when i shoot water baloons out of my 2" barel i just use those little dixie cups with the rim around the top cut off you just need to make shure that the baloon is pushed into the cup far enuf so it doesn't tutch the barel at all

[Johnny Blast]

I'm new to this forum. I made a potato gun for my son. It works quite well. I've tried water balloons with no success, but I blew a water balloon up with air and it shot out of the gun several feet and fell unharmed to the ground. I think the column of air between the balloon and flame coming up the pipe pushed the balloon out the end of the barrel without popping it.

[Torch]

Yesturday I was filling em up with water thicked with flour to make a nice splat, think that that might help with firing them out of a spudgun? Cant test until I can get the parts to finish my gun...

[MadHatter]

what if you coted the inside of your barrel with teflon? would that work?

[SpudStuff]

what if you coated the inside of your barrel with gold.
it wont make a signidigant differance. use a sabot to hold the ballon

[pyromanic13]

encase it in cardboard, with the ballon pushing out on it. just a thought

[boilingleadbath]

...I've been pondering the idea of encasing the 'ballons in peices of nylon stocking. That stuff is pretty low friction...

[frankrede]

Hmm nylons migh work, has anyone tryed filling a trojan magnum with water and shooting it?

[pneumaNINJA]

Found the best way to launch them is by using a cardboard sabot. I'm getting them at least 100 meteres with my ball valve pneumatic.

[chartreusesnot]

Has anyone found that the problem is the baloon sticking to the walls as opposed to the ballon just not standing up to the sudden onrush of air?

[gotbass7]

my friend made a waterballoon we could shoot. he just told me he did and when i came over so we could shoot it, it was this tiny little thing that was 1/3 of my barrel. i guess it would be good though to use for that if you had a huge chamber on a small barrel. then the pressure probably wouldnt break it but the impact would

[Redcoat]

put the balloons in plastic bags and load them.That should help.

[cannon freak]

Wrap them in a bit of paper with a bit of tape, cheap, effective, works every time.


Cannon Freak.

[Modderxtrordanare]

I have no problem shooting water balloons (at my truck) out of my cannon...