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Title: homemade mortar
Post by: AKcurly on October 04, 2003, 12:36:52 AM
http://www.docsmachine.com/nonPB/mortar.html
Title: homemade mortar
Post by: Twist on October 04, 2003, 01:43:43 AM
FORE!!

I hope he fixed his divots.
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Post by: BGBMAW on October 04, 2003, 04:19:47 AM
dam my range only goes 300yds..


and dam i want a bowling ball mortar,,badassssssss!!!!

BiGB
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Post by: eskimo2 on October 04, 2003, 05:33:10 AM
I like this guy!

eskimo
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Post by: Ghosth on October 04, 2003, 08:19:31 AM
HOT DAMM

Fargo Iron & Metal here I come!

Maybe have to have a bit bigger base so as not to cause divots. Band around the top to mount a couple of adjustable folding legs shouldn't be too complicated.

Hmmm or maybe a golf ball swivel gun.
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Post by: Bodhi on October 04, 2003, 08:52:51 AM
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Originally posted by Ghosth
HOT DAMM

Fargo Iron & Metal here I come!

Maybe have to have a bit bigger base so as not to cause divots. Band around the top to mount a couple of adjustable folding legs shouldn't be too complicated.

Hmmm or maybe a golf ball swivel gun.


Keep thinking weight Ghost... anything you add is just going to get heavier and heavier!

I still think it was pretty cool...

:D
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Post by: Sandman on October 04, 2003, 09:02:51 AM
I'm betting that there is probably some law somewhere promoted by Ashcroft that prohibits this type of activity.

Looks a lot like terrorist training to me... ;)
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Post by: capt. apathy on October 04, 2003, 09:05:36 AM
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Band around the top to mount a couple of adjustable folding legs shouldn't be too complicated.


should be very easy to do, and not add much weight.  they make pipe-hangers for all sizes of pipe.  just 2 pices of flat bar bent to half-rounds witha bolt on either end holding it together.

if you set the hanger with the bolts on either side(horisontaly) you could even attach your legs to the bolts.  

you could even just weld legs onto it, just warm the pipe up to about 300 deg before welding and then about 250 after you're done. that should stop any stress from weakening the pipe.  (black posder burns fairly quick though, so I doubt youd have much stress twards the end of the barrel, which is where you'd attach legs anyway)

maybe an adjustable bi-pod on the front with a protractor and plumbob attached to the barrel, so you could work up some angle/load=range charts.

damn I may have to build one myself after I heal up.  would be fun to try and hit targets with a bowling ball.
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Post by: capt. apathy on October 04, 2003, 09:09:47 AM
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I'm betting that there is probably some law somewhere promoted by Ashcroft that prohibits this type of activity.

Looks a lot like terrorist training to me...



you're probibly right there.  just about every time you find something fun to do, there's usualy a guy from the gov't right behind you trying to screw it up.

I can see the headline now.

"terrorists plan to attack city with bowling balls,  300 alley owners and empoyees jailed as acomplices,  ashcroft calls for bowling ban, schools adopt zero tolorance program for suspected bowlers"
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Post by: Maverick on October 04, 2003, 05:07:08 PM
If youy outlaw bowling balls, only outlaws with have balls.......erre bowling.......erre mortars!!!! Yeah that's the ticket! :lol
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Post by: Creamo on October 05, 2003, 04:02:47 AM
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Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
I'm betting that there is probably some law somewhere promoted by Ashcroft that prohibits this type of activity.

Looks a lot like terrorist training to me... ;)


That is so true! God bless you, we finally agree.

When "they" finally regulate bowling balls, and bowling clubs, and you need a $200 federal licence to bowl, in the name of Homeland Security, we will all be perfectly safe.

Of course bowling alley owners will go broke finger printing bowlers that have access to these blunt weapons of impossible destruction, costing thousands of jobs in the bowling entertainment sector, but we all will be safe from these evil mortars!

Look, Americans will always want to drink booze, look at porn, and enjoy loud bangs on the 4th. Who as a kid hit a full cap of capgun ammo with a hammer?!

Does Ashcroft really think diffrent? If he does, I want to fire him. How would THAT vote proceed?
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Post by: Sandman on October 05, 2003, 04:09:15 AM
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Originally posted by Creamo
That is so true! God bless you, we finally agree.


I don't know whether to be jubilant or afraid. :D
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Post by: Creamo on October 05, 2003, 04:12:43 AM
I have Kazza, I could download a Earth Wind and Fire, Celebration song, but you'd pry not dance.
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Post by: Sandman on October 05, 2003, 04:23:15 AM
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Originally posted by Creamo
I have Kazza, I could download a Earth Wind and Fire, Celebration song, but you'd pry not dance.



You sure that's not Kool and the Gang? :D
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Post by: Creamo on October 05, 2003, 04:26:10 AM
Damn! Im busted.

lol
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Post by: PSYKOJR on October 05, 2003, 10:50:30 AM
I GOTTA BUILD ME ONE OF THOSE AND SEE IF I CAN HIT A FEW CARS AT WAL MART BEHIND MY HOUSE CAUSE WAL MART IS ABOUT 1000 YARDS BEHIND MY HOUSE
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Post by: vorticon on October 05, 2003, 11:31:15 AM
i will remind you all that children read these boards...most of wich have access to half decent brains and a metal shop...not a good combination to be talking about that sorta stuff around
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Post by: takeda on October 05, 2003, 11:35:45 AM
Michael Moore got his title right ;)
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Post by: Mini D on October 05, 2003, 11:52:37 AM
It's a cannon... not a mortar.  And... I wonder why people used to use so much steel when manufacturing canons... all they really needed was a 1/2" thick sidewall.

Idiots self-confirming idiotic behavior:

Ted: "Hey bob, let's use this hunk of pipe as a cannon."
Bob: "I don't see why we couldn't."
Ted: "When we're done we should put up a web site documenting our stupidity."
Bob: "I don't see why not."

Potato guns are stupid.  This is simply idiotic.

MiniD
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Post by: Blackbal on October 05, 2003, 12:39:25 PM
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Originally posted by Mini D
It's a cannon... not a mortar.  And... I wonder why people used to use so much steel when manufacturing canons... all they really needed was a 1/2" thick sidewall.


The reason they made such big cannons is because they sometimes got really carried away with the powder charge.  The last thing you want is for your cannon to explode like some giant pipe bomb.
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Post by: Mini D on October 05, 2003, 01:08:57 PM
Ummm... blackbal... that was inferred.

MiniD
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Post by: Roscoroo on October 05, 2003, 01:40:14 PM
<---Has full access to the metal shop.... muhahahahaaa

Actually the only for explosive work ive done in the last ten years is I build steel pipe and base Mortar launching tubes for 4th of july /new years   there alot safer then the cardboard ones .

I still have a really neat directional one I made many yrs ago that uses a simple angle finder to adjust.
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Post by: capt. apathy on October 05, 2003, 02:27:23 PM
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i will remind you all that children read these boards...most of wich have access to half decent brains and a metal shop...not a good combination to be talking about that sorta stuff around


bah, I've done this kinda stuff all through my childhood and have only rang my ears and burnt all my hair off several times.