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i am a newbie at making air cannons... i made on with a 2 liter bottle and i have a butterfly valve for a "trigger" and i was wondering if someone could help me make a awesome penumicatc gun that has a trigger ( the sprinkler valve one ).....

thank you if u decide to help me

this goes in pneumatic discussion, not the "how to database (not for help me posts"

anyway, ill help the best i can.

take a peice of pvc pipe and put a cap on it, then glue on a male adapor. screw in into the sprinkler valve. mod the sprinkler valve. add a barrel and schrader valve and your set.

oh ya, welcome to spudfiles, home of a bunch of teen agers and overgrown adults that make silly contraptions out of plastic pipe. (sorry if i offended anyone)

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oh ya, welcome to spudfiles, home of a bunch of teen agers and overgrown adults that make silly contraptions out of plastic pipe. (sorry if i offended anyone)

Ahem, i prefer High Velocity Produce Accelerators.
anyways good luck with the cannon

ok, ty for the "were it goes" what is a male adapter, schrader valve and do u need a piston? and how do i put my question on "pneumatic discussion"
thank you

you move it by very nicely asking a mod, but it really isnt a big deal.

a schrader valve is the type of valve on a tire. this is so you can fill it up with a bike pump or a air compressor.

a male adaptor is a fittin that is glued on to the end of a pipe and lets you screw it onto a sprinkler valve.

you dont need a piston if you use a sprinkler valve. the sprinkler valve already has a piston in it, but it is a diaphram instead. its basicly a rubber piston.

thank you soooooooo much for helping me out.... but i still dont understand the male adapter.... i am only 13 lol

im not much older, built my first when i was 12.

this is a male adaptor. this screws into a female adapor, or in this case, it screws into a sprinkler valve.

A male adapter just adapts pipe to male threads. Male threads are on the outside of a fitting, and female threads are on the inside. And if you're wondering why they are called "male" and "female" threads, they refer directly to genitalia ...

thankyou guys soooooooo much.....

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