D4 - French air cannon - caliber 12mm

[Brian the brain]

Tres bien mon ami, c'est extraordinaire.
Et a une premiere fois...
Tres bon utilage de bois.


Well. my french isn't that good...

Indeed a percutor is a hammer.
Your English will improve by the day, the more you read and post here.
Comme d'habitude...


I'm from les Pays Bas...by the way...we all understand You'll have some difficulty translating.Your gun makes up for that...

[Xtazz]

Yes I can get 4 shots without filling, and more.. but there are less powerfull. I loose 1bar per shot.

For sure, up the pressure would be great, but I don't think i need more power ( your reaction is typically american ) and it would be very risky to put it at 20bar.

The two air tanks are some Water boxes ( to travel ... ), There are not made to resist high pressure.

I think I'll replace them by a 2Liter fire extinguisher. Then I'll be able to get higher pressures

[CpTn_lAw]

Hey Xtazz! Ton canon est super! Franchement ca va me donner du fil a retordre pour le prochain que je ferais...mmmh. Je vois que ta chambre principale est en acier galvanisé, ca tient facilement 30 bars.
Tu devrais creuser tes projectiles a l'arriere, ils perdront moins en précision, et le gain de vitesse sera cool aussi !
Le corps de l'arme es bien fait, peut etre un pti coup de peinture?
Salutations du val d'oise !!

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English version :

Hey Xtazz, your cannon's awesome! hnnestly that's gonna give me a hard time for the next i might build! I see your main chamber is made of galvanized steel, that can easily hold 400 psi. You should hollow your rounds back, you'll gain accuracy and speed. The wooden stock is well made, maybe a little paint? Greetings from Val D'Oise ! (30 km north of paris)

[jonnyboy]

Wow thats wonderful. Very clean and nice damage. With a magazine it would be awesome.

[psycix]

Good job!
I like the corpse, erhm, body..eehh stock thing.
Very funny translational error
Spudguns are not meant to make corpses do they?

Clever system of opening the bolt and supplying the air at the same time.

[Xtazz]

Salut CpTn_lAw
J'aimerais bien monter à 30 bars, mais j'ai plusieurs composants qui tiennent pas comme la Qev (10bars ), le blow gun (7bars)

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Yeah thank you, and psycix, yes its very usefull, just have to make 1 movement to reload, its very fast

[chrissilvermancs]

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[Xtazz]

Its an old photo , but get this




Yeah, I wonder i'll use som fiber + resin to make it good looking
But i like the wood's color

[sputnick]

Tres beau, j'ai envie de voir plus de fusils que tu ferai, tres beau encore, j'espère

Good job man, its a fantastic piece of work, and it looks like a great deal of fun, but those steel bullets look like quite the labor intensive ammo.

[Xtazz]

Hell yes

These steel ammos are hard to cut and shape with the "millstone" ( uh ? )
Need nearly 5 minuts per ammo

[starman]

millstone = grindstone

I like the ammo!

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

While you're at work on the "millstone", grab the peu de foret and use it to creusez dehors la queue for stabilité accrue pendant le vol

[Biopyro]

I looked at the video again, and I love the breech opening/chamber filling lever, it makes it so simple!
I had a look around the french forum (I speak very little french), and I saw a lot of chambers like yours. Several were just water bottles with three strips of duct tape. Yours may just be ok to 11bars, but I certainly would'nt go any higher!
I will test if duct tape does anything to help whan a plastic bottle explodes, but I don't think it will help much.

On a lighter note, wow! The cannons in france are all of this quality. Many of them are absolutely fantastic. The combustions are mainly advanced, and most of the pneumatics are very ergonomic with small piston valves.

[Brian the brain]

Welcome to Europe Biopro....
Also check:

http://eurospudguns.forumsdot.com/

[Xtazz]

The duct tape doesn't help when it explodes, but it prevents the bottle from exploding, because it's stabilizing the bottle's surface