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Excellence in Engineering - the Cheese Ball Machine Gun.
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RanchRoper
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Re: Excellence in Engineering - the Cheese Ball Machine Gun.
....works pretty gouda....you want to make sure you use somebody else's cheese though, notch-yo-cheese...ugh.
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Re: Excellence in Engineering - the Cheese Ball Machine Gun.
I made a potato cannon once.
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Re: Excellence in Engineering - the Cheese Ball Machine Gun.
I have shot some Potato guns. 
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Re: Excellence in Engineering - the Cheese Ball Machine Gun.
Potato guns are a hoot.
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Re: Excellence in Engineering - the Cheese Ball Machine Gun.
Potato guns and cheese ball guns! Good clean biodegradable fun.
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Re: Excellence in Engineering - the Cheese Ball Machine Gun.
Where I lived in Virginia the whole neighborhood got involved it Potato Gun wars. Grown men firing potatoes 
around the corners of their houses. It was a hoot,except the wives didn't appreciate the male macho fun. They got so advanced that they had spark plugs screwed into the tubes to ignite the fuel.
Then we found that the frozen juice cans worked very well with ping pong balls.
Well, the fun died due to the FFLF. (Female fun limitation factor.)
We all succumbed to She who must be obeyed.
I guess it set a bad example for the children.
Now had it been cheese balls....................
around the corners of their houses. It was a hoot,except the wives didn't appreciate the male macho fun. They got so advanced that they had spark plugs screwed into the tubes to ignite the fuel.Then we found that the frozen juice cans worked very well with ping pong balls.
Well, the fun died due to the FFLF. (Female fun limitation factor.)
We all succumbed to She who must be obeyed.
I guess it set a bad example for the children.
Now had it been cheese balls....................
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Re: Excellence in Engineering - the Cheese Ball Machine Gun.
My potato cannon fired 2" diameter taters. We used white rain hairspray for propellant and set it off with a grill spark igniter. It'd shoot those taters over 100 yards across the road.
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Re: Excellence in Engineering - the Cheese Ball Machine Gun.
When I was a kid living in FL, we made tennis ball cannons from beer cans and used lighter fluid for power. We all had a good supply of cans around from our blue collar dads and/or stepdads who worked hard all day and enjoyed a few after work. Lighter fluid wasn't a problem either, all the dads smoked back then.
Well designed, a tennis ball fired from a tennis ball cannon could knock a teen aged bully clean off his ten speed.
Once he got up, he would dust himself off, leave the neighborhood, and not return. 
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Well designed, a tennis ball fired from a tennis ball cannon could knock a teen aged bully clean off his ten speed.
Once he got up, he would dust himself off, leave the neighborhood, and not return. DAMHIKT.
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Re: Excellence in Engineering - the Cheese Ball Machine Gun.
How did this work?Then we found that the frozen juice cans worked very well with ping pong balls.
Apparently I am missing something!
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