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Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:54 pm

i have alot of changing to do on it still but heer is the basic cannon. its pritty powerfull but ive only took it up to 40 psi.
heres my gun i plan on changing the stand because the stand sucks and i just threw it together and i plan on upgrading to a ball valve

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heres the sprinkler valve with my home made fiberglass
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heres the gun fireing mecanism.
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Sat Feb 03, 2007 2:02 pm

looks powerful, but i can tell it was just thrown together. nice gun though
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Sat Feb 03, 2007 2:20 pm

It looks like you've taped a hose barb into the solenoid hole. You should drill a bigger 1/4" hole in the middle of the valve. The solenoid hole is about 1/8" big or something.
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Sat Feb 03, 2007 2:43 pm

i modded the solinoid hole. i drilled it bigger
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Sat Feb 03, 2007 3:10 pm

So what does it shoot like at even 40 psi? Are you sure a ball valve would be a upgrade? You can mod your blow gun to better it's preformance.

Edit: Modding a blowgun .
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Sat Feb 03, 2007 3:23 pm

I don't like it that much. seems like you could have thought it out better before you built it.
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Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:52 pm

schmanman wrote:stupid imageshack pictures, never work for me!
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Sat Feb 03, 2007 7:05 pm

I've never seen an over/under that tall before! It does look thrown together though. Is there something in the cage in the first pic? It looks like a rabbit or a small dog behind the barrel...maybe I'm crazy.
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Sat Feb 03, 2007 7:28 pm

You're going to UPGRADE to a ball valve?!?! What?!?!
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Sat Feb 03, 2007 7:51 pm

He means to exaust the sprinklers. I hope.
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Sat Feb 03, 2007 9:52 pm

Yeah, looks pretty sweet!, but could be fix up to look a little nicer. But still pretty sweet.
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Tapping plastic is sooo easy= for sprinkler valve.
Fiberglassing is 10 times harder.

But building launchers is a blast!!!
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Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:07 am

ya it was kindof thrown together. i have modded the blowgun. when i get it on a nicer stand i think it will look better.
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Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:08 am

o ya and those are dogs behind the gun. my german shepard had puppies like 4 weeks ago.
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