My newest throw together gun

Cannons powered by pneumatic pressure (compressed gas) using a valve or other release.
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Nothing special.Just a 1 1/4"piston valve gun and a 3/4" barrel.This thing amounted to a evenings worth of work.I have a 1/2" barrel to go along that fires darts and lead balls.This has to be the junkiest looking gun I've ever made!The tank is from an old gun that I disassembled.
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yuck, oh well Ill take functionality over looks any day
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The paint fell off of my old gun(didn't use krylon) so I scrapped the chamber and put it on this one. And work it does.
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It doesn't look junkie from the photo. If you whack a bit of paint on it and put a trigger on the blow gun then it would look pretty good.
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Yeah I took off the trigger to keep it from going off when I picked it up. It had a habit of going off prematurely.I'm gonna put a stopper on the pin to make it easier on the finger.
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I like it alot all you need is a new coating of paint.

O and is that sgorts stinger valve?
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pyromaniac wrote:I like it alot all you need is a new coating of paint.

O and is that sgorts singer valve?
that is an insult to sgort.
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I seriously doubt it is sgort's valve.I've never seen his.I just built a simple piston in a tee.May I ask why it is an insult?
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Its a nice looking valve........... honestly id buy that off you if you could prove the preformance was good...........
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strangley enough i love this gun...and as goat said why is it an insult to sgort??
4" piston valved cannon-half done..( i spilt my cement...)

Hybrid- 75% done. need to build propane holder and drill/tap sparkplug hole..
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I actually like the look of the gun... sure, the chamber needs to be painted, but after that, its a pretty damn nice looking cannon.

I like the valve too. Do you own a lathe? How did you secure the back plug to the valve? It looks like you solvent welded it and added screws...
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Glad everyone approves.I'll paint it later today.
rmich,I do own a lathe.The back plug is a 1 1/4" plug that I lathed down and cut off so it would fit tight and be short enough that the piston could move back.The stuff on the back is pipe sealant(it had a couple small leaks).The screws hold the plug in.
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And here it is with the new coat of paint.Yes, I probably should have edited the existing post,Oh Well.
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Wow, that doesnt even look like the same cannon anymore. So did you actually use Krylon pain this time? :wink: Great job.
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Thats ever better then before! love the new paint. is it powerful?
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