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Okay, well after I submitted my last cannon and got rawred at for DWV, I went back and looked at my second cannon to make sure it was pressure rated, of course...it wasn't. Not wanting to spend bookoo dollars on all those fittings I had on my tennis ball launcher, I found - from when they were building my home 12 years ago - pressure rated pipe, that had been sitting in my basement on my first cannon I ever made. I hacked it off and used it as my chamber, added my moded sprinkler valve to it and painted it. I did it over the winter, just painted it today though.

My primary ammo was snow balls, which I launched for my dog, after he got used to a big cannon tossing them instead of my arm, he loved it.

During the summer, I will use 100cc water balloons in my sabots, and get my neighbors back for ambushing last summer.*

I'm god awful at painting, snaded it up too much, so Im going to have to add a few more coats of the tan. I tired camo, But i'm just not an artist.

Specs:
Barrel Diameter: 2"
Chamber Diameter: 2"
Barrel Length: 21"
Chamber Length: 25"
Valve: Toro EZ Flo Plus Series
Actuation: Modded for a blow gun

Unpainted Barrel


Unpainted Chamber


Unpainted Cannon


Painted Barrel


Painted Valve


Painted Chamber


Cannon Painted







*Note* My neighbors ambushed us around our campfire, they drove up on their golfcart and naile dus with squirt guns, hence why I designed my cannon, as a way to get back.

DAMn, water balloons can sting thrown by HAND! THats just over kill dude!

Looks familiar with mine... I like the paintjob though

magnum9987 wrote:DAMn, water balloons can sting thrown by HAND! THats just over kill dude!

Im going for distance by the way

Looks familiar with mine... I like the paintjob though

Some cannons do start to look the same after a while

That's a really nice cannon you got there!

For someone who claims to be aweful at painting, you've done a fine job at it...certainly good enough for a spudder.

Clean gun there!

nice gun to have fun with friends with i think

hope you make more

I like that nsf-pw chamber you got there.
But nice cannon, and great paint job.

The pictures don't show it, but there is a lot of over spray on the tan. And I didn't sand it baby butt smooth, so i is pretty rough and nasty.


Im diverting away from cannons now, been sitting thinking of a pneumatic engine instead.

Rokmonkey wrote:The pictures don't show it, but there is a lot of over spray on the tan. And I didn't sand it baby butt smooth, so i is pretty rough and nasty.

Im diverting away from cannons now, been sitting thinking of a pneumatic engine instead.

Hey, you can't see it from my house....!!

Why are you diverting? You're just getting going good.

clean, simple and effective = i likey. now u need to make a couple diff size barrels ie: paintball and baseball for sure. would be kinda like a portable mortar with baseballs and waterballoons. the paint looks good!
did u mention the psi u put into it?

It's nice and clean
I wouldn't like to have the same cannon though... I'm pretty sure I would sometimes hold it the wrong way (And have a heck of a pain in my shoulder)