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Member Section => Tactical Rifle & Carbine => Topic started by: Big Frank on March 06, 2021, 01:01:26 AM
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My new toy should be here Monday. I got the X-Products X-FORE Can Cannon Launcher Package + M200 Blanks while it's on sale. I wouldn't have bought the Golf Ball Launcher with the Can Cannon, but it was only about 8 1/2 dollars more than buying a Can Cannon and bag of blanks. At least that's what I came up with on my calculator a few times when I triple checked it. Now it's almost a $30 difference. I think they lowered the price of the Can Cannon itself. If you have an old first generation Can Cannon, you can buy a Gen 2 Threaded Port that the golf ball launcher screws onto. With good G.I. blanks they say it can shoot a golf ball up to 500 yards, but I'll find something to use as a direct-fire target. :D I bought it mainly to launch cans anyway, but I have a handful of golf balls I found that I'll shoot. I think I'm a mile and a half from the nearest golf course, but every few years a golf ball just shows up on the street or in the yard. I don't know where they come from.
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Can Cannon Laser Engraved Artwork Sleeve Replacement, with artwork created and laser engraved by Octo Arms, Inc. If you want a custom can cannon, you can get one of these sleeves and the G2 threaded port to put on an upper, or replace the sleeve on a standard can cannon. The laser engraving wraps around 360 degrees so each figure blends into the other.
https://xproducts.com/laser-engraved-sleeve-for-can-cannon-ar15-soda-can-launcher/
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It's been a long time since I started this thread, but I figured this is the right place to post this. I already had the Firefield Impulse 1x22 Compact Red Dot Sight on the Windham Weaponry flattop upper on the Can Cannon. Then I got a Strike Industries T1 Riser Mount and stacked it on top, with the lower 1/3 co-witness spacer on top of that. The spacer should be on the bottom of the SI mount but it won't fit in the groove on top of the Firefield mount, and the SI mount will. Everything is built to an Aimpoint T-1 footprint, as are my Vortex SPARC II and SIG Romeo-MSR. The optic is a circle dot reticle in red and green with 5 brightness levels on the 12 position switch. With the high mount and the optic in the middle of the upper, I'll be able to angle the launcher upward and still see over the muzzle through the sight. Then maybe I can use the edge of the circle instead of the dot to aim long shots. I don't know what kind of arc a beer can makes when you lob one 100 yards, but it won't be as straight as a bullet. I plan on finding out this summer with some cheap Walmart soda or something like that. I have the golf ball launcher screwed in too, but only have about 7 golf balls IIRC. If I don't find any crab apples or something else I can cram in there, I'll just unscrew it and start shooting cans. It also shoots potatoes but I haven't tried it myself. I saw someone on YouTube take potatoes a little to big and pound them them in with their hand, cutting them into bore diameter projectiles.
https://www.strikeindustries.com/si-t1-riser.html
https://firefield.com/products/firefield-impulse-1x22-compact-red-dot-sight?_pos=15&_sid=9b40252a3&_ss=r
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I'm going to play devil's advocate.
Take a Coke can and use a can opener to cut off the top. Fill with fireworks, cherry bombs, etc with SLOW FUSE. Put the can in the launcher, FIRE.
Would that work?
My thinking would be to return ANTIFA fire at riots. Place round behind enemy lines. ;^)
(Just my mind going crazy)
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I don't see why not. If it fit's, it's a projectile. And the tennis ball the kid shoots in the second video could be soaked in lighter fluid and set ablaze like a lot of people did with tin can tennis ball launchers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-hy0kzWNKI
SHORT https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XS2hUcBloWM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj_b5aNkxP0
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Many years ago a coworker and I made a tennis ball cannon out of exhaust tubing(we worked in a muffler shop) We used an Oxy/acetylene mix for the fuel and touched it off with a cutting torch. It sounded like a mortar going off when fired and we never did know where the ball landed.It was quickly stashed in the trunk of the other guys car before any police came by the area. I always wondered what happened to it afterwards.
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One time I heard about some guys setting off bag bombs. I never heard of a bag bomb before, but it's oxy-acetylene mix in a plastic bag. You torch it and it blows up, but don't use too big of a bag! One guy said he used a garbage bag and when it blew up, it put him through the garage wall, or halfway through it. :o For a long time I didn't know carbide lamps made acetylene gas by reaction of calcium carbide with water. I knew it made something from carbide and water, but didn't know it was acetylene, just like an oxy-acetylene torch.
One of my uncles in the U.P. used to work at "the carbide plant", wherever and whatever that was. I always assumed it was a Union Carbide plant somewhere. It turns out, in the 1950s, the hydroelectric plant at Alford Park in the Soo was owned by Union Carbide – Michigan Northern. Maybe he worked there. Construction began in 1898, and the opening date was in 1902. The building is 20 feet over 1/4 mile long. 122 years later, the Soo hydropower plant is one of the oldest large generating stations still operating in the United States. One of my cousins' husbands, my uncle's son-in-law used to work there under the supervision of the Army Corps of Engineers. His wife, my cousin was the Postmistress I talked about before who cross-country skied to work in the winter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Marys_Falls_Hydropower_Plant#
https://loc.gov/pictures/item/mi0085/
P.S. If you go to a campground in Canada and they ask if you want hydro, they aren't asking if want to hook up to a water connection, they're talking about electric. Weird.
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Big Frank, Yeah, we did that too, Was a guy that used to walk around the town talking to himself, The assistant manager didn't like him hanging around the shop because he would get into arguments with himself. So he took a tall kitchen garbage bag and filled it with a mix of Acyt/Oxy and tossed it by the side of the building hoping to scare him away, Threw a cigarette at it and hit it first time, Was a VERY LOUD boom and a fireball, The guy didn't even flinch, like he didn't even hear it,The town PD showed up in 2 minutes asking us what happened, Manager told him it was a backfire from a car we were working on.Never heard anymore about it after that.This all happened about 30 years ago, so I'm guessing the statute of limitations has run out. ;) ;D
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After I used camo Duck tape on my ARs, I did my can cannon a few weeks ago. The first 2 pics are of the Can Cannon mounted, with the X-Fore Golf Ball Launcher, and the barrel nut from my old free-float tube also in the pics. The second pair of pics are of the X-Fore Golf Ball Launcher for the Can Cannon mounted the way it's supposed to be, inside the can cannon, with the old barrel nut in the pics. The 3rd pair of pics is of the old barrel nut holding the Can Cannon Threaded Port on, and the X-Fore Golf Ball Launcher mounted, with the can cannon separate. That's less than half the weight in barrels.
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I my jurisdiction anything involving burning or detonation is viewed along the lines of discharging a firearm and can get you a ticket. (experience) So a Mentos explosion is okay but an acetylene one is not.
However, if it involves compressed air, then that's okay. So for my children's TV show, we did a number of "experiments" with The Professor involving high pressure. We did bend the rules and did the exploding paper bag with flour dust, but when asked said it was a science experiment. Also did the 55gal drum implosion trick as well.
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I saw a video of a rail-car implosion. SCIENCE! That would be awesome to see in person. The 55 gallon drum must have been too. Around here, making excessive noise is illegal (no fun aloud ;)) so shooting the can cannon is a vacation tine activity.
I still have some camo tape left and my CCU is setting here, so it will likely get some tape before long. Not the forend I don't think, but the receiver tube. Maybe a strip on top of the rail too. I already did the forearm of my VRF14 not-a-shotgun. I'll try to remember to post pics when I have it back together.
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For my children's TV show's The Professor segment we did implode one. The scream is genuine surprise by one of the cast, because it takes a while for the vacuum to build up.
I'll save you the full lenght, 5 minute setup portion, though co-starring with The Professor is Construction Charlie (me).
https://vimeo.com/1070385032?share=copy#t=0 (https://vimeo.com/1070385032?share=copy#t=0)
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Some years ago out of Lafayette, LA, a coiled tubing company had an incident with a liquid nitrogen transport tank. Liquid nitrogen is used to provide lift in old wells to clean them out, etc. Anyway it's pumped through a heater and then down the well through a big coil of tubing. Whilst unloading the transport the crane operator at the dock somehow dropped it in the water....which covered up the relief valve which vents nitrogen as the tank warms up. The relief valve is a very normal thing as the transports always vent some nitrogen...however in this particular instance water got into the piping and froze as a solid block of ice in the vent piping to atmosphere. About 2 AM the tank exploded and leveled a big industrial building..very violent and very fortunate no one was working that night as anyone within the fenced area would have been killed.
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:o Extremes of pressure and temperature are nothing to treat casually. Here's a video of a rail tanker imploding. I wonder how much vacuum it was pulling? The last 6 seconds of music is Sirius by The Alan Parsons Project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz95_VvTxZM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkC_oi0ksuw
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:o Extremes of pressure and temperature are nothing to treat casually. Here's a video of a rail tanker imploding. I wonder how much vacuum it was pulling?
It takes very little vacuum to collapse a tank. Go to farm country and you will find a collapsed honey wagon in every town. VanDale and Balzer set their relief valves under 20". Replacement valves were typically built with a 15" limit. Our tank typically ran at 12", and I could lift 1,500 gallons eight feet in less than ten minutes. Unloading was done at five pounds or less.
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Wow!
To run a honey wagon business, you really have to know your s**t. ;D