Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #06046
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Sharon Williams swilliam@cadvision.com
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 00:45:15 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Spark igniter
hehehe I built two "spud guns" and the bigger one could shoot a large
potato a good 300 feet. but someone stole it. I had for safety wraped the
combustion chamber (4" dia) with jean material, then duct tape then chicken
wire, then more jean and more tape. also ABS works better as it is not so
brittle and will flex slightly. have fun and be careful, me and some
friends were walking down the street one night with it and it had a potato
loaded but no new propelant, and for no reason it fired and skip of the
road and smoked my other friend on the other side of the street. he said it
hurt like a bitch.
hehe,
-Jeremy Williams
P.S. try soaking socks with gas, and fireing them, fireballs =^) be careful
though.
At 11:29 PM 9/10/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi
>Today me and my friend built a potato cannon. For those of you that don't
>know what a potato cannon is it's a large gun made out of PVC pipe that
>shoots out potatos and uses hair spray for fuel. The igniter we used is
>from outdoor grills and when the button is pressed a rather large shock
>is produced (up to about 3/8"). I am curious where all the electricity
>comes from because there are no batteries or anything. Anyone know how
>these work? I know it's not really beam but it may an spark an idea for a
>new preditor bot that shocks it's prey (already been discussed) or
>something. Don't get get any ideas about mounting the gun on your human
>seeking head though (interesting idea, any thoughts on how to make a head
>seek humans?).
>
>Laterz
>
>
>*-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-*
>Ian Bernstein "aka - Synet" The Master Builder
>
>E-Mail - Ian@beam-online.com
>BEAM Online - http://www.beam-online.com
>Quote - I feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least
>he can do is to shut up.
> - Tom Lehrer
>
>
>
6047 Sun, 12 Sep 1999 11:03:36 -0300 [alt-beam] hello? alt-beam@egroups.com michael.hirtle@ns.sympatico.ca (Michael Hirtle) hello list i was woundering if u can all hear me because no one ever replys to any of my questions
and i never have people acknowledge anything i say so if u get this message could u tell me?
ps, please :-)
thanks, Joel
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