[pure-silver] Re: Worlds Fastest Camera Defies Gravity...
- From: jeffrey <puresilver@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 19:26:28 -0700
Tell me, during the fall harvest season, do farmers run from their
fields at your approach, or do they vainly hope to talk you out of
raiding their 'arsenals'? :)
Way OT: I assume everyone is familiar with 'pumpkin cannons'?;
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2003/oct/29/airpowered_cannon_chucks/
>Dear Ray,
>
> I tremble at the keyboard, not knowing who is reading this, but...
>
> Potato guns are made from large PVC tubing and plumber's fittings.
>Available from hardware stores in many nations. The tubing is the thick-wall
>type - you get a long piece about 3 in. ID for the barrel and a shortpiece
>of 5 in ID for the chamber. Also a step-down adapter for these two sizes, a
>threaded end cap for the 5 in. and a can of PVC cement.
>
> The barrel and chamber glue into the adapter and the end cap and its
>seal completes the chamber. As a firing mechanism you dismantle a
>piezo-electric BBQ lighter and drill a small hole into the chamber for the
>sparking element, sealing it with silicon caulking compound and taping the
>squeezer handle to the outside of the chamber. Trunnions and/or shoulder
>mounts may be added to taste, as can black paint.
>
> To load you unscrew the end cap, push a tight-fitting potato through the
>breech to the start of the barell, fill the chamber with a liberal spray of
>hairspray, and quickly fit the screw cap.
>
> Aim down range and squeeze the BBQ lighter handle.
>
> Do not use black power, smokeless, detcord, ampho, petrol, or anything
>else in the chamber. Do not use anything heavier than a potato as a round.
>Do not aim it at your friends while drunk. Or at highway multinova cameras
>from concealment. Or at wedding parties.
>
> Also do not succumb to the temptation to build a rifling bench ( one
>twist in 72 inches ) or increase the wall thickness of the tubing or make
>patched rounds with a precision potato cutter or discarding sabot zucchinis
>because while it will be fun you will wear the patience of both your wives
>and the local police sergeant out and then there will be trouble.
>
> Uncle Dick
>
>PS: Never believe what you see in movies when they show you soldiers loading
>a muzzle loading cannon - and never, ever stand next to Frenchmen or
>Dutchmen when they are loading a muzzle loading cannon. Just don't.
>
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