I made one of those yesterday from pringles tubes! I deffo need to make one like that tho! My pringles tube version was extremely powerful and managed to launch a bottle of water across the whole neighbourhood- doing so made the bottom tube explode (literally). It also made my ears ring for around 5 hours afterwards as it was insanely loud(Read: i may have used alot too much deodorant and crouched right next to it).
Indeed. Tempted to make one tomorrow if its a nice sunny day. Cheap too, whats to complain about -- buying the hairspray is the fun bit!
i tried using lighter gas but it didnt work too well, could have just been too much/little. After i tried deodorant it was deffo alot more powerful so i'd recommend deodorant instead of lighter fluid.
Lighter fluid evaporates pretty quickly so no, its not the best thing to use. Deodrant isn't so bad for that, it will go after a few mins though, but hairspary is the stuff to use.
"Oh and don't try this out home, you'll put holes in your celling and knock over your lamp. Go outside, prefably near a blue house" LOL Great stuff, Kev I'd like to try this too seems liek a proper laugh. -Fr4nk
i triend making one. burned my eyebrows off first try.. eyelashes severed too... so i tried again and it worked once.. had to try it with a rigged lighter because i didnt have a bbq liter.. didnt work to well.. also i used a carton poster tube.. which was qiute wide and needed a cup in it to work.. It did make me loose my only yellow cup.. theyre harder to find i feel.. damn..
Well that's something to try after the exams... Its quite cool how polished the whole thing was, it all fitted together and worked perfectly.
Well i took the cannon to my friend house today seeing he lives next to a park. We tried all different ammunts of fuel and weights of ammo, we got one to an estimated 150 - 200meter upwards (direct fire up) and another one went around 75meters across the park! In the end we discovered under no circumstances use air freshener as all it does it clog the tubes with gunk. Deodorant is still top dog for fuel. We fired so many shots that we ended up detroying the tube (again!) and we didn't have any more pringles tubes. We tried a plastic pipe but decided against it incase it exploded (plastic shrapnel `n all). Gonna get 6 tubes of pringles tomorrow and a ton of ducktape and cheapo deodorant. I'll posst up a log of how its made and maybe even a video. Mike
