Potato cannon carriage #6: Some tweaks and the test firing

WOAH! Very cool looking potato gun. Any idea what the velocity you get out of it is?

Ya could stand in o0ne place and plant a whole acre of potatoes. Neat!

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Awesome man Cool toy!!!! :)

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very nice! I’m going to have to make one of these.

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That is so cool! What you using for fuel? Hairspray?

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SO COOL!!

I could use one of these to scare the squirrels out of the garden ;^)

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Actually, you’d just be shooting food at them, so I don’t know how well it would work. Fuel is Static Guard.

Velocity – I couldn’t even begin to guess. There’s so much inconsistency between shots, I don’t know if knowing would be of any use.

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Absolutely cool. You are a bad boy. Ok when we all team up for the potatoe wars I want to be on your side.

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So you core a potato, insert an egg, cap the potatoe and fire. Splat and ewwee! Cool

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The only time I saw one firing, they used hair spray and the tighter the fit, the farther it went.

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It may depend on the shape of the potatoes, too. The ones I got are kind of flat, rather than football-shaped, so when they go down, they’re short. I’ve had better luck with nice, round bakers that end up about 1 caliber long.

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I remember they actually had taters that were too big, stuffed them in there so the sides scraped the skin off and formed an airtight seal.

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Very COOL! I’ve been waiting for this post to see the final project.

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That’s the way it’s done. You can see in the second picture above that the muzzle is sharpened. I fired the test shots before I took the picture, so you can also see some potato residue on it.

@kidi: it’s not done yet. The best part is yet to come.

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Cool…I like your idea for the bracket…really simple but it looks great. I thought it would fire with more velocity than that..do you have it purposely dialed down due to the fact that kids will be using it?

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