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1/5 SCALE SHERMAN TANK
http://www.gizmology.net/tanks.htm
I noticed this has been updated. JOAT Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification. - Publilius Syrus |
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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. |
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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! |
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"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. |
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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 |
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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! |
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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 :-). -- Homo sapiens is a goal, not a description |
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"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) |
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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 |
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