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[grunty]

i was wondering. has any one made a air cannon?

Edited by grunty, 31 May 2005 - 12:31 PM.

[Pineapple]

Several of us have, basically borrowing off the technology and design of potato guns from sites such as spudtech.com.

That's where I got the basic concept, then went ahead and made something more to my liking. I used projectiles as large as pool noodles, and as small as 3/4 inch FBR.

Most of my homemade air artillery is pretty impractical for an organized Nerf war. They need a lot of air; either a hand pump, pumped 3-400 times, or in my case, I have a battery powered compressor. Also, they are pretty big and unweildy to really run around with. My shoulder mounted "M79" could shoot a 3", 3/4 in FBR projectile about 250 feet, with about 10 feet of trajectory (very slightly angled), with only 40 psi of air pressure.

It's a fun aspect of Nerfing, just for the heck of it. Just know what the limitations are regarding using them in a 'war' situation.


-Piney-

[grunty]

mine takes 2 mins. to pump and is very heavy

[fastkill]

Owww I want to make one that can shoot like 20 stefans in the air like a mortar

[grunty]

you can but it will were out faster

[notorious oxide]

I have made a golfball bun (i posted on this site but got a bit slack about posting the end product) that takes around 35 pumps for 40 psi. It is fairly mobile and can shoot 7 stefans around 120 foot. A single stefan around 160 foot. And a golf ball really really far over 180 metres. with a single stefan in a 16mm conduit barrel i can get 9 good shots off.

EDIT: i fixed up some grammar, sorry Cx

Edited by notorious_oxide, 02 June 2005 - 02:10 AM.

[cxwq]

The last four posts have almost no punctuation or capitalization and the spelling is rather suspect to boot. Proof your posts and clean that shit up.