Dan003400's First Cloud

[Dan003400]

Here is my first cloud. Here are some pics.

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The Gun

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Inside the Chamber

Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ8Y1_A6qt4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYxv1Q2SOfo

[Flying_Salt]

Sweet, but in the video, did you have some sort of hopper on it?

[ProfessorAmadeus]

very nice. Im going to make one now. Paint it red. It would look cool.

[Dan003400]

And no the hopper is the pvc pipe you see in the picture.

[Pyro Ninja]

Sorry if this sounds stupid but what is it ment by "cloud"
That video is cool, have you ever seen a mini gun shoot well it sorter looks like one how theres a stream of bullets

[Flying_Salt]

So you have your blowgun hooked up to an air compressor?

(sorry, I'm a pneumatic noob)

[MrCrowley]

Yeah, And Pyro its called a "cloud" because it makes a cloud of bbs inside the chamber.

Any specs on the gun?

[Pyro Ninja]

Ok thanks for that (MrCrowley) Im just getting information as i go along otherwise it would be annoying me untill i found it out

[Flying_Salt]

Yeah that's the way it is for me pyro. I think I might make one out of clear pvc.

[Flying_Salt]

EDIT: It doesn't look like it has a vortex block. Did you made it without one?

[MrCrowley]

Its a cloud, they don't use vortex blocks, read up on wiki

[Flying_Salt]

The design on wiki was a little hard to see and made it sound complicated. So all you need for a basic one is a chamber with plastic BB's, a blowgun valve hooked up to an air compressor, and a barrel drilled into the un-threaded end cap?
And one more question: Would one of those tire compressors work? I hae one that you plug into the car's socket, it can go up to ~100 psi (has a pressure gauge)

[Dan003400]

Yea Clear PVC would be Awsome!!

[Atlantis]

The design of the cloud is a simple one, ther is a pile of BB's sitting in the chamber, the air comes out of the blowgun up into the pile of BB's which moves the BB's around, then the BB's follow the air out the barrel.

Hope that cleared that up.

[Flying_Salt]

I thought it was that simple. Would this compressor work? It's for filling tires.