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....works pretty gouda....you want to make sure you use somebody else's cheese though, notch-yo-cheese...ugh.

I made a potato cannon once.

I have shot some Potato guns.

RP

Potato guns are a hoot.

Potato guns and cheese ball guns! Good clean biodegradable fun.

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....................

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.

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.

DAMHIKT.

Then we found that the frozen juice cans worked very well with ping pong balls.

How did this work?

Apparently I am missing something!

BrokenolMarine wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 02, 2020 12:06 pm

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.

We made our tennis ball guns out of Pringles cans and lighter fluid. Never shot a bully though.

Mistered wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 02, 2020 2:07 pm

Then we found that the frozen juice cans worked very well with ping pong balls.

How did this work?

Apparently I am missing something!

Well, the cans we had were just the diameter of ping pong balls. We just taped them together.

Well, the cans we had were just the diameter of ping pong balls.

Again I admit my ignorance - what do frozen juice cans and ping pong balls taped together become? Ammo for the spud gun?

Why are ping pong balls taped to frozen juice cans?

Oh, now I understand where you're coming from. The ping pong balls are the ammo. The concentrate cans are the cannon. You know, the little cans with frozen juice concentrate.

Got it!

It must have taken several of the cans to make a barrel.

When I was young I actually conceived an idea of a spring loaded 'gun' that would fire .22 brass shell cases but didn't have the resources or much else to bring it to fruition.