1/5 SCALE SHERMAN TANK
 

http://www.gizmology.net/tanks.htm

I noticed this has been updated.



JOAT
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:03:40 -0500, (J T)
calmly ranted:

http://www.gizmology.net/tanks.htm

I noticed this has been updated.

Excellent! I can see how he got the "Best Dad" awards.


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Very nice project. I am sure you son will enjoy it as much as you did
putting it together.

Are you really going to put a potato or pneumatic cannon in it? Those
things can pack one hell of a whallop - even fatal! A friend of mine built
one from PVC that was fueled by hair spray and sparked with a butane match.
I watched him shoot a potato at an empty 55 gallon drum one day. It moved
the drum about two feet and caved the side in pretty well. He could launch
tubers 500 - 600 feet.

That would take care of the refreshment table at the next pool party.

Are you really going to put a potato or pneumatic cannon in it?


I did note from you site you are planning on shooting foam plugs from the
gun. Just remember kids are accomplished at finding other ways to use an
item.

Ever build a carbide or acetylene cannon. We did at age 10 or 11 - Awesome!

"RonB" wrote:

Are you really going to put a potato or pneumatic cannon in it?


I did note from you site you are planning on shooting foam plugs from
the gun. Just remember kids are accomplished at finding other ways to
use an item.

Ever build a carbide or acetylene cannon. We did at age 10 or 11 -
Awesome!




Every parking lot an armory! Every vehicle a potato cannon! At age 8, we
were stuffing potatos in exhaust pipes. The results were somewhat random.

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:15:38 -0600, "RonB" wrote:

Very nice project. I am sure you son will enjoy it as much as you did
putting it together.

Are you really going to put a potato or pneumatic cannon in it? Those
things can pack one hell of a whallop - even fatal! A friend of mine built
one from PVC that was fueled by hair spray and sparked with a butane match.
I watched him shoot a potato at an empty 55 gallon drum one day. It moved
the drum about two feet and caved the side in pretty well. He could launch
tubers 500 - 600 feet.

That would take care of the refreshment table at the next pool party.

we used to make firecracker guns... I quit when I knocked a few boards
out of the back fence with one and got grounded for about 10 years..
roflmao

Fri, Nov 12, 2004, 12:15pm (EST-1) (RonB) muttered:
Very nice project. I am sure you son will enjoy it as much as you did
putting it together. snip

Who you talking to? I'm just curious, because that's not my
project, I just posted the link. If I put something like that together,
it'd be for me, not my kids.



JOAT
Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
- Publilius Syrus

J T wrote:

http://www.gizmology.net/tanks.htm

I noticed this has been updated.

"The Sherman was a cool little tank."
I don't think so, they wern't called tommy cookers for nothing!

In article fc7ld.57484$EZ.33888@okepread07, says...
Ever build a carbide or acetylene cannon. We did at age 10 or 11 - Awesome!

With an old Ford coil to fire it?

We finally made one that used black powder and fired beer cans. Took a
whole weeks allowance (50 cents) to buy the powder for two shots :-).

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Homo sapiens is a goal, not a description

"The Sherman was a cool little tank."
I don't think so, they wern't called tommy cookers for nothing!


They're neat tanks, from a historical perspective. I sure as hell wouldn't want
to go out and fight in a tippy lightweight box with a rechromed aircraft engine
on its last legs, though.

GTO(John)

J T wrote:
Fri, Nov 12, 2004, 12:15pm (EST-1) (RonB) muttered:
Very nice project. I am sure you son will enjoy it as much as you did
putting it together. snip

Who you talking to? I'm just curious, because that's not my
project, I just posted the link. If I put something like that together,
it'd be for me, not my kids.



JOAT
Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
- Publilius Syrus

And it would have to be a little bit bigger huh Joatski?

Philski

Fri, Nov 12, 2004, 7:52pm (EST-2) (philski)
says:
And it would have to be a little bit bigger huh Joatski?

Prolably no more so then for the rest of you. On the other hand,
1/4 scale...



JOAT
Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
- Publilius Syrus

Fri, Nov 12, 2004, 4:16pm (EST-3)
(Larry=A0Blanchard) claims:
We finally made one that used black powder and fired beer cans. Took a
whole weeks allowance (50 cents) to buy the powder for two shots :-)

But, then it was not a carbide cannon.

And, if you only got two shots, you must have really been using an
excessive amount of powder, especially just firing beer cans.



JOAT
Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
- Publilius Syrus