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mikehasahotmom
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does anyone know how to make a really good potato launcher and what to use inside it for a fuel, i made one but it only shot like 100 feet at most

Jun 27 2003 7:19PM
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icecreamsandwich
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talk to ductapeboy. his is great.

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Jun 27 2003 7:25PM
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NomenClature
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use aquanet hair spray (old people stuff) or propane/butane and if you have a spray bottle you can use vodka (or everclear) they are the most powerfull. but you have to control the amount of fuel hella carefully. otherwise you over load it and it wont shoot as far. and for design just search on google.
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Jun 27 2003 7:40PM
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ductapeboy
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I made mine with a 2 inch barrel with an extention to a 4 inch chanmber... with a bbq starter in the end of that... and yea a screw top thing there. it was super easy.. all abs plastic. yep. so we tried a bunch of different fuels... everything from wwd40 to Ether. and yea... we found out that hair sprey works the best... only the real shitty hair sprey though.. like tame or some shit. and yea... some times it gets gunked up though and stops working... so we chainge it over to wd 40 then and it works great then too. um yea mine shoots like 100 meters... maybe a bit more. its sick.


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Jun 27 2003 7:50PM
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Maximumsushi
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Mine shoots about 400 feet or so, we made another at university last year, but it wasn't nearly as good. I could shoot mine through a whole bunch of stuff, it was hella cool.
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Jun 27 2003 8:36PM
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ductapeboy
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the compressed air ones work good.. but there is no giant flaim that comes out the end... so that makes it less fun. I think a longer barrel would be key too. yep.


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Jun 27 2003 9:53PM
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line1260skier
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my neibors made some then we shot it stright up in the air then yelled oh shit as it was coming down and we all ran
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Jun 27 2003 10:28PM
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line1260skier
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oh and we used wwd40 with a bbq lighter stick thing
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Jun 27 2003 10:29PM
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*Neil
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At SMS last year philou porrier brought a 6foot potato gun and shot it at all the racers... haha so funny
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Jun 27 2003 10:35PM
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mikehasahotmom
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ya i tried making a couple but none of them ever shot more than 100 feet

Jun 28 2003 11:34AM
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mikehasahotmom
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but my gaol is to be able to shoot little molotov's
Jun 28 2003 5:40PM
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CrazedSkier1080
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my friend made a sick sick one hes all good with geometry and shit it was 9 feet long and ran on anything i think we got it shootng like a good 1/4 to 1/2 mile sometimes it was awesome ill ask if he has the vid and ill post it


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Jun 28 2003 6:02PM
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(ski)
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one of my friends made one, and it was sweet, he made a handle with a trigger(button from a gass barbecue)
Dont shoot it in town cuz these old people called the cops on him and he got in deep shit
Jun 28 2003 7:15PM
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