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Shooting a block of ice...
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:49 am
by Mitchza89
Well lads, I tried to shoot a block of solid ice that I set in a beer can (always have plenty of those around
) and I thought id be able to shoot a 8mm rock through it... To my horror, it did absolute bugger all. Just mearly a small crator 20mm across and 10mm deep.
I really thought it would have blown it up
...
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:50 am
by MaxuS the 2nd
Ice is quite solid, I fired a water bottle filled with ice at a chair once. It mangled the chair and did sod all to the bottle.
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:40 pm
by Velocity
MaxuS the 2nd wrote:Ice is quite solid, I fired a water bottle filled with ice at a chair once. It mangled the chair and did sod all to the bottle.
And consider Pykrete, which is ice mixed with sawdust; it is even stronger than ice (approaching the strength of concrete) and it melts slower too. Do we have another challenge thread?
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:39 pm
by MaxuS the 2nd
Velocity wrote:Do we have another challenge thread?
That sounds like a plan..
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:04 pm
by potatoflinger
Try making a thin sheet of ice, then shoot it with a largish caliber spud gun, and it looks awesome. It looks kind of like a window shattering.
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 2:49 pm
by psycix
Wait, im confused, did you use the block of ice as projectile or as target?
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 3:25 pm
by potatoflinger
psycix wrote:Wait, im confused, did you use the block of ice as projectile or as target?
A target.
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 5:31 pm
by DYI
After I shot the steel and ice slug at the door for my comp vid, I was surprised to discover that the ice was still intact in the cylinder, despite the cylinder being about 1/2 of its original length.
Someone needs to come up with some sort of ice/Pykrete challenge. Maybe something like: "Putting an ice/Pykrete slug through 1/8" steel plate?"
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 5:41 pm
by VH_man
Ice is very strong.....
Where i live, Mother nature was nice enough to cover every inch of every outdoor thing with about a 1/2 inch of ice. I tried to remove the ice from our driveway with a giant metal pole about.... 6 feet long and 3 inches in diameter... and all it did was crack mabey an inch of the stuff away.
i then moved to my Dartgun (156 ft/lbs) and it still just made a "crater" and did not crack the ice at all.
eventually, i just gave up...........
but yes, ice is VERY strong...... (someone needs to make an ice pressure chamber..... NOW)
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 8:24 pm
by benstern
challenge: break a 1 foot square pycrete block that is a half foot thick.
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 8:28 pm
by DYI
challenge: break a 1 foot square pycrete block that is a half foot thick.
You're on Benstern. You can expect a video of my attempt whenever spring comes.