My newest throw together gun

Show us your pneumatic spud gun! Discuss pneumatic (compressed gas) powered potato guns and related accessories. Valve types, actuation, pipe, materials, fittings, compressors, safety, gas choices, and more.
goathunter
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Nothing special.Just a 1 1/4"piston valve gun and a 3/4" barrel.This thing amounted to a evenings worth of work.I have a 1/2" barrel to go along that fires darts and lead balls.This has to be the junkiest looking gun I've ever made!The tank is from an old gun that I disassembled.
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Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:51 pm

yuck, oh well Ill take functionality over looks any day
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Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:56 pm

The paint fell off of my old gun(didn't use krylon) so I scrapped the chamber and put it on this one. And work it does.
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Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:08 pm

It doesn't look junkie from the photo. If you whack a bit of paint on it and put a trigger on the blow gun then it would look pretty good.
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Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:18 pm

Yeah I took off the trigger to keep it from going off when I picked it up. It had a habit of going off prematurely.I'm gonna put a stopper on the pin to make it easier on the finger.
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Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:57 pm

I like it alot all you need is a new coating of paint.

O and is that sgorts stinger valve?
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Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:57 pm

pyromaniac wrote:I like it alot all you need is a new coating of paint.

O and is that sgorts singer valve?
that is an insult to sgort.
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goathunter
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Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:57 pm

I seriously doubt it is sgort's valve.I've never seen his.I just built a simple piston in a tee.May I ask why it is an insult?
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Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:05 pm

Its a nice looking valve........... honestly id buy that off you if you could prove the preformance was good...........
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Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:17 pm

strangley enough i love this gun...and as goat said why is it an insult to sgort??
4" piston valved cannon-half done..( i spilt my cement...)

Hybrid- 75% done. need to build propane holder and drill/tap sparkplug hole..
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Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:23 pm

I actually like the look of the gun... sure, the chamber needs to be painted, but after that, its a pretty damn nice looking cannon.

I like the valve too. Do you own a lathe? How did you secure the back plug to the valve? It looks like you solvent welded it and added screws...
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Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:04 pm

Glad everyone approves.I'll paint it later today.
rmich,I do own a lathe.The back plug is a 1 1/4" plug that I lathed down and cut off so it would fit tight and be short enough that the piston could move back.The stuff on the back is pipe sealant(it had a couple small leaks).The screws hold the plug in.
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Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:43 pm

And here it is with the new coat of paint.Yes, I probably should have edited the existing post,Oh Well.
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Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:57 pm

Wow, that doesnt even look like the same cannon anymore. So did you actually use Krylon pain this time? :wink: Great job.
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Mon Apr 16, 2007 9:21 pm

Thats ever better then before! love the new paint. is it powerful?
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