My dual valve pneumatic-The Pimpinator

Cannons powered by pneumatic pressure (compressed gas) using a valve or other release.
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This is my pneumatic and it has a 3" chamber 24" long. There are 2 3/4" sprinkler modified for pneumatic actuation by the blowgun. I have 2 barrels to use with gun. A 2.5" tennis ball barrel 48" long and a 1.5" barrel 48" long. I use these barrels on this gun and on my combustion. Damage pictures will come later.

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2.5" and 1.5" Barrels both 48" long
2.5" and 1.5" Barrels both 48" long
This is the chamber and valve assembly.<br />Either you love the paint job or you hate it.
This is the chamber and valve assembly.
Either you love the paint job or you hate it.
Exit hole in sheet rock made by bar-bell.
Exit hole in sheet rock made by bar-bell.
Entry hole into sheet rock. Shot with 5 pound bar-bell shown in backstop picture.
Entry hole into sheet rock. Shot with 5 pound bar-bell shown in backstop picture.
This was the backstop to catch flying bar-bells and d-cells.
This was the backstop to catch flying bar-bells and d-cells.
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That looks like it could do some cool damage, nice gun although i'm leaning towards "hating" the paint job. In my opinion a camoflauge pattern would be the nuts. I also like that you use two valves.
I shall rate it a 8 out of 10- two points deducted for the wacky paintjob :D
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sweet gun the paint job looks like a candy cane though :lol:
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Thanks guys this was easier than camouflage.
More comments please.
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Damage pics equals more comments :lol:
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Ok im working on the damage. Im leaning towards shooting a bolt at wood.
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Hi,

You´ll need larger pipes to and from the valves.. My comment.

Nice otherwise..

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looks like a cool cannon. Well done
really good quote/phrase here
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I realized i made a constrictive setup the second after the PVC cement set.
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I actually quite like the paint job... I see too many camo colour schemes, and not a lot of them are actually particularly good.

It's nice to see something different.
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Yea Joanna, i like it to. Nice launcher, 5 lbs, thats a nice chunck of metal to be sailing through the air, could you see it flying? Or is that a dumb question. Post some video's if you can.
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Well at a 45 degree angle it goes like 80' so i will get a video. Yah u can see it fly.
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jrrdw wrote: could you see it flying? Or is that a dumb question.
Well, I find that things usually become hard to see at 100 m/s or more... but this is a lot larger than what I use, so you'd need to be going even faster.
So that would be 20,000J of kinetic energy or so to make it "invisible". At a decent 20% efficency, that becomes 100,000 J of chamber energy.

And that would need a 11 gallon chamber at 300 psi to provide that amount of energy. But for the actual chamber size, you'd need over 5000 psi and a 7 foot barrel. So, yes, it would be a little optimistic to get it so that it wasn't visible in flight.
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joannaardway wrote:
jrrdw wrote: could you see it flying? Or is that a dumb question.
Well, I find that things usually become hard to see at 100 m/s or more... but this is a lot larger than what I use, so you'd need to be going even faster.
So that would be 20,000J of kinetic energy or so to make it "invisible". At a decent 20% efficency, that becomes 100,000 J of chamber energy.

And that would need a 11 gallon chamber at 300 psi to provide that amount of energy. But for the actual chamber size, you'd need over 5000 psi and a 7 foot barrel. So, yes, it would be a little optimistic to get it so that it wasn't visible in flight.
Well, hehe, thats a lot of figuring there Joanna! So Spudgunner. Can you mod it to those specs or not?
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where do you atatch the barell, i realy dont get it.
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