Easiest to build Spud Gun Ever!!

Boom! The classic potato gun harnesses the combustion of flammable vapor. Show us your combustion spud gun and discuss fuels, ratios, safety, ignition systems, tools, and more.
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So, I came up with this a while ago, and finaly got around to taking some pictures and putting them on my website.

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I posted all the construction pics, and info here->

http://www.joeynovak.com/wiki/index.php ... Potato_Gun

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Does that hit him where i think it hits him? :shock:
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Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:05 am

I wouldn't say easiest. The easiest would be a piece of pipe with a hole drilled in it for igniton. This looks ever so slightly more difficult, perhaps 30 seconds longer, than a simple piece of pipe would be.
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Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:16 am

hahahahaha it hit your nuts :lol:

anyway I doubt you were the first person to creat a spud gun like you claim
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Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:27 am

/| I know why to he said in the video this is the last try the had been trying for a while I bet so he wasnt expectly it.
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Intresting gun you made
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Interesting gun. I would change a few things, (just the ignition, actually), but other than that it'd be a neat little thing to pack around to public places and such, (nothing conspicuous about an orange juice bottle and some plastic tubing).

Also, I think I might substitute for a cheaper orange juice as well. That Simply Orange stuff isn't cheap! :o

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There you go... the $2.49 solution to ignition woes.
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oh yes the infamous Dickknockedoffame cannon
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Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:33 pm

Thats pretty cool. I like the fact that its all clear and you can bring it on an airplane :lol: .
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Movie dialogue: "The good die first."
Tom: "But most of us are morally ambiguous, which explains our random dying
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Bluetooth wrote:Thats pretty cool. I like the fact that its all clear and you can bring it on an airplane :lol: .
You can bring most on airplanes. You would just have to tell them exactly what you have and possibly check it in as a firearm, even though its not a firearm, pneumatics seem more airline friendly.
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Sun Jan 07, 2007 4:11 pm

thats a hilarious video, itll teach you to hold the gun tightly lol
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welcome to the ghetto cannon club :lol: we welcome you with open arms lol.....kool cannon but wheres your ignition? i sugest a camera taser igniition if your going to make one..
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Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:12 pm

that looks pretty simple, yet awesome. I am probably going to try and build it sometime!!
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is it a glass bottle? never seen a bottle like that
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that's a bad link
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