How to Solve SpudGun Fuel Crisis

Several versions of the spray-on the antiperspirant contain propane?or at least they did. A few days ago, however, I went to four different ammo shops (i.e. drug stores), reading Right Guard labels, and didn't find a single one with propane. More research discovered four facts. One, Right Guard stopped using propane several months ago. Two, we're regrettably late to this story. Three, Right Guard now contains butane, which will also work, according to our spudgun consultants. Four—and this is the most important part—Brut antiperspirant does have propane! Live testing revealed that a russet shot through a 3-ft. barrel, powered by the explosive action of Brut sprayed for about one second into the combustion chamber will travel, well, really far. And be accompanied by a big boom.

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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.

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Bring out the little boy in your father with unique gift of Spud gun!

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At some point or the other in our life, most of us feel the sad nostalgia of moving on from childhood. We secretly wish if we could re-live the sense of childhood fun, carelessness, and joy once again in our adulthood. If you wish to bring out the little, mischievous boy hidden in your father and want him to amuse himself like children, gift him a spud gun on his birthday!

A Spud Gun is a device that is designed to launch a potato a few hundred yards. Depending on the make and model of the spud gun, you can launch a potato 200-300 yards or even farther.

There are two different types of Spudguns-Pneumatic and Combustion. Pneumatic Spudguns are powered by air pressure where as Combustion Spudguns are powered by flammable propellants.

Spud guns are also referred to as potato cannons, spud cannons, spudzooka, spud launchers, and potato guns.

Potato Guns are legal in most parts of the world. You must however check with your local authorities to find out if they are legal in your area before you buy one to gift to your father.

Just get a state of the art spud gun, some potatoes, and go to an open field. If you don’t want to shoot potatoes, you may take some vegetables or fruits as well. Potato cannon would become a favourite toy of your father and your whole family.

Using spud guns is quite easy. You can look for safety tips online or buy a good book on how to use spud guns. If handled carefully, this outdoor sport promises unlimited fun and excitement.

Your father would be thrilled receiving this unique gift from you. Buy a spud gun or potato fun plans and make his birthday all the more special.

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Create a potato gun with ease

Potato guns are easy to make. It requires little training to create a spud gun. Here we are telling about material you required to build a potato gun. A diagram is also here to make you understand about the design of gun. Just follow the instruction about construction & enjoy shooting.
Source: http://www.jawish.org/blog/archives/191-Make-a-spud-gun!.html

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Stencil and its uses

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Stencil and its uses

It is exhilarating that a small invention like a stencil can have an enormously wide scope of usage. A thin sheet of plastic or metal with letters, designs or a specific shape cut out of it to create a similar depiction for fulfilling various purposes. Some of them are:-

Paintings

Stencil Paintings are a time-honored technique of painting. Using their own hands, artist created wonderful designs and stencil paintings were common in the pre-historic period.

Book illustration

The use of stencils was not confined to paintings, as in the 1920s stencils enjoyed high popularity in France for book illustrations. Stencils were extremely popular as a method of book illustration as it was a technique which very well sufficed the need of book illustrations back then. Well known studios such as Marty, Jean Saudé specialized in this technique.

Aerosol Stencils

They have many pragmatic applications and the concept of Aerosol stencil is used frequently in commercial, industrial, residential, artistic and recreational settings. The use is just not constrained to these settings. There are various other uses to which it’s put by the infrastructure management companies, the military and the governments of various nations.

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