there are pics and video here
http://www.teamsushi.com/potato/
http://www.teamsushi.com/Picnic/
15ft steel cannon
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patraccoon
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wow....... how much pressure have you put in that thing, Im assuming it's pnuematic, cause i bet it would hold a poo load, very impressive
Yeah it's helium filled (300 psi) so our hope os that since the speed of sound is much faster in helium that will give us the extra boost to hit the sound barrier.
grrr yeah we were supposed to have a 15ft barrel but McMaster screwed up our order and we could only get a 6ft in time. And I have to admit the welds were done at the company we ordered the part from(sorry to be lame)
I actually work for The Labratory for Optical Physics and Engineering and every year we have a potato gun picnic and this year we decided to try for the speed of sound, but on launch day we broke our phototransistors and just destroyed potatoes at high preassure. So does anyone know if the speed of sound has been done?
grrr yeah we were supposed to have a 15ft barrel but McMaster screwed up our order and we could only get a 6ft in time. And I have to admit the welds were done at the company we ordered the part from(sorry to be lame)
I actually work for The Labratory for Optical Physics and Engineering and every year we have a potato gun picnic and this year we decided to try for the speed of sound, but on launch day we broke our phototransistors and just destroyed potatoes at high preassure. So does anyone know if the speed of sound has been done?
Oh ok, I didn't know you were using helium as a propellant. There have been some discussions about heating the regular air in a pneumatic to achieve supersonic velocities, but as I'm sure you know, fluid dynamics really works against you close to the speed of sound. Go here: http://www1.iwvisp.com/thehalls/ggdt/index.html
He has written a fairly accurate cold gas gun simulation program that you could try to tinker around with to get your desired velocities.
A better projectile will definitely improve your results, but I don't know if you would consider that "cheating" or not..haha.
He has written a fairly accurate cold gas gun simulation program that you could try to tinker around with to get your desired velocities.
A better projectile will definitely improve your results, but I don't know if you would consider that "cheating" or not..haha.
spudinator and Jspellman both broke the sound barrier, both were with hybrid cannons Joel also believes he did with a gigantic pneumatic using AIR, i dont know where people are finding that L13 did it, i havent read anything about that
also i remember some site about a couple of guys who did it with a gb a 10 ft length of steel pipe and some gun cotton(bad idea dont try the gun cotton)
Edit: yup, thats the 1, that was the 2nd taste i got of spudding, first i saw sumthin about it in a boyscout mag, googled it and found that, found xinventions,found spudtech then registered here
Edit: yup, thats the 1, that was the 2nd taste i got of spudding, first i saw sumthin about it in a boyscout mag, googled it and found that, found xinventions,found spudtech then registered here
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Ahhh, the infamous Powerlabs golfball cannon. Those videos were great, especially with the bang echoing in the distance.beebs111 wrote:also i remember some site about a couple of guys who did it with a gb a 10 ft length of steel pipe and some gun cotton(bad idea dont try the gun cotton)
http://www.powerlabs.org/cannons.htm
scroll down to see it.
First off, that was a lame post. Second, this is an older thread... unless you have something not lame to say, leave it be. Third, talking about shooting any explosive or explosive device out of a cannon is not prohibited on these forums or any other spud gun forums as far as I am aware. Thank you.