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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: AKcurly on January 29, 2003, 08:00:53 PM
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Why I'll bet one of these puppies would take a tiger down. :)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-558570,00.html
curly
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http://www.spudtech.com/ (http://www.innomi.com/linktrack.php?url=http://www.spudtech.com/)
Especially this (http://www.innomi.com/linktrack.php?url=http://spudtech.com/detail.asp?id=26)
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“Woodland on Sundays echoes to the thump-thump of these guns. It is a growing social problem that needs to be tackled.”
LMAO! "growing social problem". OH NO, they have potatoes, RUN!!
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I say let Darwin's Theory work it's magic...
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Yes, well, the modern day spud gun used from ambush at close range would have a good chance of immobilizing a tiger. A 1944 technology spud gun would have little to no effect and therefore should not be added to AH. Even bouncing said spud off the ground to hit the weaker belly of a tiger would have no effect.
Gorski
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Heh, I've played with one of these. Made of PVC, fueled with hairspray. It would launch a tater about 200 yards. Much fun.
ra
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yeah new a guy at work who built one, said he put a tater through his garage door while testing it :)
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Lol, the German's must be way behind the times. I visited someone over ten years ago that was using one of these. His could launch a potato a good 500 yards or so. I never heard of anyone dying from french fry attack, but time will tell.
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HTC THE SPUD GUN IS UBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Obviously overmodeled.The Veggydweebs will have a field day
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Some youths have made multi-barrelled potato cannons, resembling the Soviet Katyusha rocket launchers of the Second World War and capable of firing at a phenomenal rate
ACHTUNG KARTOFFELN!!! :D:D:D
Then again, it would be a very humilliating epitaph:
"Here lies Mr. Smith, secretary of the NATO.
Believe it or not, he was killed by a potato."
:D
Daniel
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WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!! THIS IS A MAJOR CRISIS!!!!
Surely you know that this flies in the face of the Treaty of Versaille. They are rearming themselves and preparing to take over Europe.
Damn Germans, they are at it again!!
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I hear ya Mathman. Sure, today it's only potatoes but tomorrow it could be rutabagas or even (gasp) mushrooms.
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Are the French in on this?Cause if they are I can see cannister shot filled with fries on the horizon.Very nasty stuff.
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I loved spud guns as a kid. The best was dry firing (loading w/ a rag instead of real ammo) at night. The flame was awesome and the bang would attract every kid in a 5 mile radius. I made one once that would shoot golf balls around 300-400 yards.
However, I knew tons of people with spud guns and never once heard of one being shot at people. I think the Germans have a problem that goes beyond flying potatoes.
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Thgis is a result of unregistered potatos. We must immediately ban the open sale of potatos to minors and register all potatos so that the public may be protected. I suggest we get a Potato Violence Organization started as soon as possible.
Remember people don't kill people, potatos kill people!!
:rolleyes: :p :D
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Hispudo Cannon............
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Kartoffelkanonen have been very popular at RC aircraft fields. Almost every field has at least one.
The article states that they're legal, which isn't true as far as I know. If something accelerates something else throug a barrel that gets a kinetic energy over 7.5 J it's a weapon that requires a special license to be owned. I can't see why a Kartoffelkanone would not fall under this rule (it's for sure above 7.5 J and the potatoe is accelerated through a pipe). Hell, even sparkling wine is illegal according to this law - the corc closing the bottle can be accelerated to more than 7.5 J when the bottle is shaken hard enough ;)
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Blank, 30 years ago a teenage friend of mine put a ball through his parents' garage door, too!:eek:
We had all made calicium carbide cannons from large rug tubes with coffee cans on the end to hold some water. Pour the powdered calcium carbide in a hole where the fuze would be on a cannon and let the stuff fizz, forming acetylene gas. Wait 30 seconds and apply match to hole. KABOOM. The same friend had an eight-foot long cannon mounted on a push mower chassis, and covered with camoflage netting. It could fire a heavy shrunken rubber ball (about 5 inches / 12.7 cm in diameter) 250 yards / 225 meters.
One time someone called the cops on us...for shooting off firecrackers. When a police officer arrived he asked us if we had any firecrackers. "No, sir", my friend said, "just this calcium carbide cannon!"
"Oh, okay. I had one of those when I was kid. But no firecrackers, you understand!"
"Yes, sir!"
This was about 1973. In today's climate, who knows what would have happened to us? We certainly would have been arrested and asked many, many questions. Probably would have been on the news, too.
MRPLUTO VMF-323 ~Death Rattlers~ MAG-33
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i was one of the ones using steel beer cans duct tape tennis balls and gasoline:) only got burnt once:) wow the memories , lit a guys cornfield on fire once also good ole days :D
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Perk Potatoes!
Multi barrelled potatoe guns? Oh my...sounds like something McDonalds would have for busy times!
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Plans (http://www.random-abstract.com/tatercannon/index.html) for a nice little cannon
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Cool link TMaw. I saved the wav of the gun firing to use as the cannon sound for the Yak9T. :D
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The best propelant to use is ether or "starting fluid"
:D
box
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OMG Kartofelnkanone that's priceless :D :D :D :D....
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we used aceteylene from a cutting torch. we would fire our standard HE potatoe and hi velocity tennis ball rounds.
ahhh the good old days.... :)
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(http://www.xinventions.com/main/spud/images/pac5_fire.jpg)
This one is cool :}
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a little styrofoam and a little gasoline makes a whole lot of home made napalm :eek: enjoy