First the reason behind the name and then the spec`s.I have been planing on building a piston valve for my next cannon for about a week and when i finally built it i was severely disappointed when the hot glue kept on grabbing the 1 in. pipe.since i didn't want my investment to go to waste i scraped it and made this.Hence trasher.surprisingly it is drastically better then my first air cannon and im very happy but i would still like to attempt a piston valve cannon.
Chamber:1 in. sch 40 PVC
Barrel:1/2 in. sch 40 bolt action barrel
Valve:sprinkler valve
activation:blowgun valve
Air source:Bike pump
pressure gauge:160 psi
tested pressure so far:100 psi
Chamber
sprinkler valve
barrel
suppressor
open suppressor
Fully assembled-sorry couldn't get a full one
Questions i have for more experienced builders
Is the suppressor i made doing anything and if it is it there any way i can improve it?
trasher
Not a bad effort tape, especially for a punt. Can you show a little more detail on your breach load mech...?
Your can photo is virtually worthless...way out of focus.
Your can photo is virtually worthless...way out of focus.
I got the idea off of this instructable.Not a bad effort tape, especially for a punt. Can you show a little more detail on your breach load mech...?
http://www.instructables.com/id/SSPU7XQ ... ructImages The only thing i did differently is scale down to a 1/2 in. barrel sleeved in a 1 in pipe.I also added o rings to make an air tight seal and added a old handsaw handle.
I will get better photos up later.Not enough light where i took it.Your can photo is virtually worthless...way out of focus.
thanks for commenting
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Basically you have the right concept, but about 100x too small. Put a soda bottle on over the end of your cannon, and you will get much better results. Remember, for suppressors, the bigger the better. At no point is there such a thing as being too large. Also, if you fill the suppressor with steel wool you will get some improvement.tape fist wrote:Questions i have for more experienced builders
Is the suppressor i made doing anything and if it is it there any way i can improve it?
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Nice cannon! Clean build.
Some comments:
-You could take that T-piece with the pressure gage out of your pilot volume and tap the gage in something else. Like in the chamber, or maybe even right into the sprinkler. This will increase performance a little.
-How well does your bolt seal? Did you add an o-ring or something (even duct tape) to seal it?
-About the suppressor:
It works, but it could be more efficient. Besides increasing the volume, you could also build a suppressor working in another way.
Make it vent air out to the outside. In order to slow the air vented out, add baffles. May create a short hiss if the baffles are not obstructing enough, but surely does the best job suppressing the bang.
When going for increasing volume, you could also make an expansion chamber around the barrel (Like a coaxial launcher) but in this case, the chamber is part of the suppressor.
Does work like baffles, obstructing the air though.
Some comments:
-You could take that T-piece with the pressure gage out of your pilot volume and tap the gage in something else. Like in the chamber, or maybe even right into the sprinkler. This will increase performance a little.
-How well does your bolt seal? Did you add an o-ring or something (even duct tape) to seal it?
-About the suppressor:
It works, but it could be more efficient. Besides increasing the volume, you could also build a suppressor working in another way.
Make it vent air out to the outside. In order to slow the air vented out, add baffles. May create a short hiss if the baffles are not obstructing enough, but surely does the best job suppressing the bang.
When going for increasing volume, you could also make an expansion chamber around the barrel (Like a coaxial launcher) but in this case, the chamber is part of the suppressor.
Mainly for combustions, to cool the gases.Also, if you fill the suppressor with steel wool you will get some improvement.
Does work like baffles, obstructing the air though.
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I have done a fair amount of research on the topic, and what I gleaned is this:psycix wrote:Mainly for combustions, to cool the gases.Also, if you fill the suppressor with steel wool you will get some improvement.
Does work like baffles, obstructing the air though.
Yes, steel wool has a much bigger effect on combustions, because it cools the gases. It does, however help in pneumatics, not so much because it slows the gases, but because it reflects sound waves back on themselves, canceling eachother out. Ideally one would calculate exactly the shape and positioning of all of your baffles, to perfectly cancel the sound waves, but for us, some times the best we can do is just send them all in random directions, and hope that they will tend to cancel.
Make no mistake though, for a pneumatic, baffles are far more important than the steel wool.
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