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Old 09-16-2004, 03:10 PM  
jade_dragon
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We used to play with stuff like that all the time. We built a potatoe gun out of schedule 40 (thick walled pvc) and then my friend's dad got home and found us and got really mad. He started yelling about how we would never get any kinda power out of something made out of plastic, took us both in his truck to his storehouse and got us some galvanized steel piping and some flares and threader. Then he made us build a real cannon, when it was done it was a 4 foot barrel with spiral riffling, flares out to a 2 foot combustion chamber, welded in a bar-b-que ignitor and had a threaded back end with a one way valve to spray in wd40 through a straw. We had barrels for potatoes and gulf balls, but of course we were firing the thing into the woods and not in neighborhoods. I saw it last week in his parent's garage, his dad still plays with it from time to time, great guy!
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