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Miniature cannons are novelties made with materials such as bottles or pens.
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Viva la revolucion! By placing the original pen's nib into the muzzle, it can actually write! I went up to 400 psi 3 times, but then it started leaking :?
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Nice effort! Solid rubber pistons are easy to make but at high pressures they do have their disadvantages due to the lack of rigidity.
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400 psi in a plastic pen? That is not a good idea. Those pens are kind of brittle, so if one failed in your hand it would hurt a lot and also cause serious injury. Please use SCH 40 steel pipe for those pressures.
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He's using brass tubing, not the actual pen.

In regards to your other post, before you bring it up, there are a lot of things not rated for pressure that we use anyway... not always the right thing to do, but we're all adults capable of making a guided decision. For instance: a lot of the higher mixture hybrids we have on the sight are made from non-pressure rated parts, or parts par past their pressure rating.
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