8" PVC

[noname]

A couple days ago I was walking home and I found a piece of pipe. Yes. It's 8" pressure rated SCH 40 PVC. It's like 15 feet long and holy crap it's like more than half an inch thick. I'm gonna ask the construction guys workin there if I can have it. Don't have any idea on how to get it home....
Just giving everyone a heads up for some HUGE pneumatic since I don't make combustions.

[Andrew52]

And where were you walking just down the street ? or was it in a back alley and how did u get it home because im pretty sure it would be quiet hard to cary 15ft of sch 40 pressre rated pipe and how much pressure is the pipe rated for anyways....fittings will be a bitch to find and to payfor

[douganface]

Read it again Andrew.

[Andrew52]

Ohh oops my bad i get it but i dont know if they will let him have it

[djt]

yeah 8 inch fittings cant exactly be found anywhere so you would probably have to order them from somewhere. price of huge fittings + price of shipping something that heavy = verry expensive. man that would be one awesome cannon though.

[schmanman]

go here they have 8 inch sch 40 and sch 80 pressure rated fittings.


http://www.sprinkler.com/buy/8_40_fittings

http://www.sprinkler.com/buy/fittings

http://www.sprinkler.com/buy/pvc_fittings_pipe

and they have valves

http://www.sprinkler.com/buy/valves

[djt]

holy crap an 8 in tee is 80 dollars!!!!!!! the price of just one 8 inch tee and one 8 inch coupler is more than enough to buy a supah valve and thats not even including shipping.

[boilingleadbath]

All you need is a 8" coupler, which ends up costing some 55$ or so with shipping.

And some cement intended for large diameters; your generic light-duty stuff won't cut it.

Venting wouldn't be done with the generic "open the back" meathod, though. I'd try getting some flexable drier-vent air-conduit and putting a fan at the end.

[WOW!!]

Dued, you would need 57in of 3/4" pipe for propane injection LOL. That thing would be a beast. I wonder what would happen to a paintball??

[schmanman]

noname said

just giving everyone a heads up for some HUGE pneumatic since I don't make combustions

It would be a huge combustion,but he builds pnumatics.

[Shrimphead]

Ya a ten inch tee is $437! The cool thing is that store is really close to me. No paying for shipping!

[huse_spud]

if i had 8" pvc i would let my cats live in it.

i have wasted ur time, oh well ur wasting ur time on this forum, lol

[sgort87]

These 8"ers are fun man. There are a bunch of neat things you can launch like: soccer balls, video cameras, foam balls, playground balls, and my favotite - human heads!

I found an 8" cap while in KY and bought it for like $8 or something. Maybe less. I have one of these 8"ers on the way!

[Benny]

you could use it for a pneumatic, on my tennis ball cannon, i couldent find reducers, so, the chamber was just some 2.5 inch pipe, 2 endcaps, and i tapped a 1 inch nipple, into one of the endcaps.

[)DEMON(]

It would be fun to make a cannon that big,but I would rather make it out of steel.