Potatoe gun

[MDRZulu 0]

Today me and my friends built a very large potatoe gun, the combustion chamber part is about a foot and half long of 4 black plastic piping. We then used a reducer for a 3 wide barrel and its about 4 feet long. We then used a coleman stove igniter for the ignition. When we first got it all together we decided to stuff a paper towel in to test it in my friends yard to see if it would even work. We sprayed in a little of some kind of chain lube crap that came in an aresal can. When my friend hit the igniter button on the first try ( about 11 pm) we all jumped back as gigantic boom sound rang out. It was by far louder than my 12 guage but the sound was alot deeper. The sound also had a distinct thooooooooook sounds to it. We had to lay low in his garage for a few minutes in case someone called the cops. This thing is amazing it must be 5 1/2 feet long and its very bulky. We tried to put some other projectiles in later out in the woods but we only got dog food to launch because we were having igniting problems after that. Also the dog food one blew off the reducer and 3 inch pipe so it the dog food didnt get much distance. When we have it perfected we can shell things. Tomorrow it will probably get a large bipod and maybe longer ignitor wires so we dont have to be scared around it. I really wish I could get pics on here because it resembles a minature howitzer or something similar.

[USSoldier11B 0]

Are you in the U.S? If so, be cafeful, those things are very illegal.

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

hehe!    I loved doing this stuff when i was younger (I still love it now but my friends actually grew up so now I would have to do it alone). Actually I was the typical teenager that one day would get his arm blown off while experimenting with an old WWII grenade that I found in the woods (we found allready 3 in the forrest behind our house). In germany we dont have such things as potato guns, we build catapults, bending real trees and stuff. And I bet those catapults were 10 times stronger than a silly potato gun    (but static). And we constructed bombs by cutting open fireworks and combining the gun-powder. We blew off a large TV and it jumped about 20 cm into the air before falling into bits and pieces!  

[MDRZulu 0]

Yeah I am in the US but I live in a small redneck town surrounded by forests so I should be alright. Silly potatoe gun!!!!!! No not this one its more of a scary homemade artillery cannon. Potatoe gun is just the word for the design I think we can shoot alot of things out such as 12 oz soda cans, golf balls and whatever fits. I wouldn't be surprised if the range of this thing is a kilometer. It is truly massive and would most likely kill you if you got hit by something in it.

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (MDRZulu @ Aug. 06 2002,10:33)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><span id='postcolor'>

a kilometre?? Well hell if that would work I wouldnt challenge you!      Our catapults could throw around 120 to 140 metres, but really heavy 40kg stones and stuff. If you want to try something out then build molotov cocktails and shoot em!  

[Col. Kurtz 0]

Just dont stand too close, or you might get a shard of glass in you for your troubles. Have fun, but down kill or main yourself. To emphasise this, I will tell you a little story that really did happen in Australia. Two kids made a homemade bomb. They placed it in an old scoring box at the local crickedt ground and lit the fuse. They ran like hell, because they were afraid of all the noise it was going to make. It went off. The kids kept on running until one of them noticed a blood splotch on his T-shirt. he was wearing two T-shirts. he peeled both of them back, and his intistines fell out. he had been hit by shrapnel.

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

Yeah, he is right, dont wear T-shirts!

As I said, I deserved to be dead for my stupidity, but I loved that stuff!

[ralphwiggum 6]

he said kilometers! he's not an American!

but seriously, becareful with that machine. it's technically a weapon...

[timmy 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (MDRZulu @ Aug. 05 2002,15:33)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Yeah I am in the US but I live in a small redneck town surrounded by forests so I should be alright.<span id='postcolor'>

where do you live, does your small redneck town have a name?

oh, btw, ive never heard a redneck say kilometer

[RedStorm 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Col. Kurtz @ Aug. 06 2002,12:04)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Just dont stand too close, or you might get a shard of glass in you for your troubles. Have fun, but down kill or main yourself. To emphasise this, I will tell you a little story that really did happen in Australia. Two kids made a homemade bomb. They placed it in an old scoring box at the local crickedt ground and lit the fuse. They ran like hell, because they were afraid of all the noise it was going to make. It went off. The kids kept on running until one of them noticed a blood splotch on his T-shirt. he was wearing two T-shirts. he peeled both of them back, and his intistines fell out. he had been hit by shrapnel.<span id='postcolor'>

Ewww! That's grose

[Renagade 0]

lol can buy handguns about everywhere yet cant get a spud launcher in the us

[Warin 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Renagade @ Aug. 06 2002,21:33)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">lol can buy handguns about everywhere yet cant get a spud launcher in the us <span id='postcolor'>

The thing about a handgun is that generally they wont blow up and kill you On the other hand, I am willing to bet that it's not hard to end up severly injured with a spud cannon... considering most of them are home made and use PVC pipe

[MDRZulu 0]

[Edit]Dont want all this crap where I live on here.

[SKULLS_Viper 0]

My neihboor has a potato launcher.It was really cool.But he used hair spray instead.He just sprayed it near the igniter(just a thing you twist).He loaded a potato into it, then twisted the igniter, then boom!The potato exploded on some ones house.

[VXR 9]

i tryd to make one 2 years ago but no succes damnit

and if it would work it would be hard to use

im in the missle of a city

[Harnu 0]

How do you make a potatoe gun? I live in the suburbs of chicago and all our houses are very close. And I have some people I need to get back at

[SKULLS_Viper 0]

Pipes and and a pipe end, with a hole for the igniter.I can't remeber what my neihboors potato launcher looked like.That was like 4 years ago.But they are loud, and deafaning.

p.s. harnu, did your dad find your account and pw?If not, i might be able to create an account for you, to host your pictures.(maybe)

[MDRZulu 0]

We shot it again tonight but this time further out down a dirt road with some ether starter fluid or something my friend brought and we only got to shoot a football and an apple with a glowstick in it but it worked. We saw some lights comeing and had to hide everything because we thought the cops might be comeing to check it since we were in kind of a party spot. Anyway some guy in a little truck was mobbing it straight towards our cars and our lights were out then he took a hard turn and pulled a 180 and sorta went up this cinder cliff thing a little bit. Then he pulled up by us and got out and I thought he was a drunk Indian who was gonna kick are asses. But he got out and asked if we had seen some guy. I asked him if he did that on purpose because it kind of looked like he did and he said "fuck yeah dude". Then  when we realized he was just some guy (possibly drunk) just looking for someone we took out the gun and he watched us try to shoot an apple out one time but it blew the back out, along with the threads! Times like that make me wish I had a handgun because there are Indians around here that get drunk and kick peoples asses and what have you.