Learn to make your own combustion potato gun

Although spud guns and potato guns are readily available in the market and also at online stores, if you want you can make your own spud gun. Making spud gun is quite easy and doesn’t require you to possess any rocket science. Plus, the materials are readily available and that too at affordable rates. Spud gun materials cost roughly $25-30 and you can easily make your gun over the weekend.

Read on to learn how you can make combustion potato gun all on your own.

You would need some materials for making the combustion spud gun.

PVC coupling 4 inches

PVC cleanout with plug 4 inches

PVC pipe SCH 40, 4" X 1.5'

PVC reducer coupling 2-4 inches

BBQ igniter

Nails

PVC primer and cement

Hammer

Saw

Once you have all the material, you can start the production process.

You may begin by cutting the PVC pipes with the help of a hack saw to the appropriate lengths.

Make sure that the pipes are clean. Now hammer two nails across the PVC pipe and wrap the stripped ends of the igniter wire just beneath the head of the nail. The points of the nails must be about ¼ inches away from one another inside the pipe.

Push the igniter button. You would see a spark inside the pipe.

Apply PVC primer and then PVC cement to the ends of the pipes for cementing the pipes together. Leave it for drying for a day before you set out for spud gun shooting.

Put a potato with a stick down to the end of the barrel of your spud gun. Spray an aerosol like hairspray or deodorant into the back chamber. Your combustion spud gun is ready to fire.