THe NAC Lots-O-BFG KO2 Thread

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eff ladies then, theyre a waste of time anyway.

casino? isn't there anything else to do in that one horse state? lol

and money... kinda? i'm getting $560 today for subie parts but i wanted to buy stuff for the jeep...

ha. excellent.

i havent been since like april lol. just tossin it out there.

oh and i have a $50 gift certificate to crazy burger, let us indulge.
 
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I bought a new endcap for the potato gun.
what chamber size / bore? I've got a proud and colorful past consisting of many potato cannons being confiscated from my college apartment by campus police

I thought time alone meant just her and the shower massager...?


:smoker:
nope, he bought the kit, he's got time for other stuff now!
 
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It's on.
Started my second job today, 20+ hours a week on top of my 40+ hr a week I have now.
Picking up the new xj this week sometime, and all my extra cash is going into making it the most badass jeep I have ever owned.

(then Im saving to start a food cart business on the side,and hopefully feeding most of you fools at some point in time at events/fleamarkets/fairs)
^ this will be the best food cart/stand ever, already have an in to start, a concept and rough menu.

Think gourmet sandwiches+sides offered at reasonable prices,served with an awesome attitude and superior quality.
 
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I bought a new endcap for the potato gun.
Ill see if I can find pics of my friends cannon.
MAP gas, built in pc airfan to disperse waste gases, adjustable pressure regulator(depending on ambient temp +or-)and tazer electronics to ignite it.
barrel #1 was limited to the length of his xj due to transportation.
barrel #2 is collapseable and is around 15',iirc
 
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The way you guys talk about this buffalo chicken stuff all the time makes it sound like God himself created it.

I kinda want some now.
Until I read further I read that like you had never had buffalo chicken before at all... :shocked:

Bob doesnt even know what the word free means
:laugh: true

It's amazing. I think it's happened almost once a week where some of us get together at someones house and order a crapload of buff chix pizzas.

When it was at my house, I ordered 10. Ross and Mark whimped out and got plain and something else lame.
I've never showed up at one of these shin-digs. I might have to stop by on Friday. :thumbup:

I bought a new endcap for the potato gun.
oooooh. :thumbup: I haven't taken mine out in years. I built a pneumatic air cannon; instead of using fire I have a compressed air chamber and ball valve to open it. All that means is that I can shoot water and other loose stuff out of it since the ball valve also keeps the compression chamber and barrel separate until firing.

..that and I can run the compression chamber up to 120PSI (and accurately measure how much pressure I am firing at each time)... a standard aerosol cannon produces a max of maybe 30ish PSI if the air/fuel mixture is perfect. :D Best part is I built a huge remote-fire (can fire from 50 ft away) cannon for my highschool science fair and won an honorable mention for my study of effects of increased pressure behind a projectile. I loved science :D
 
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Anthony, after you remove the heat treatment from the shafts and weld them up or whatever, are you going to get them heat treated again or something? Wouldn't they not hold up without it?
 
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I will, but I doubt that I'd need to. If I can make it work, this is my plan of attack:

remove heat treatment
machine
weld
immediately heat with torch
quench in oil
put in oven at 400* for a bit to reduce internal stress
 
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eff ladies then, theyre a waste of time anyway.

x2.


what chamber size / bore? I've got a proud and colorful past consisting of many potato cannons being confiscated from my college apartment by campus police

Ill see if I can find pics of my friends cannon.
MAP gas, built in pc airfan to disperse waste gases, adjustable pressure regulator(depending on ambient temp +or-)and tazer electronics to ignite it.
barrel #1 was limited to the length of his xj due to transportation.
barrel #2 is collapseable and is around 15',iirc

oooooh. :thumbup: I haven't taken mine out in years. I built a pneumatic air cannon; instead of using fire I have a compressed air chamber and ball valve to open it. All that means is that I can shoot water and other loose stuff out of it since the ball valve also keeps the compression chamber and barrel separate until firing.

..that and I can run the compression chamber up to 120PSI (and accurately measure how much pressure I am firing at each time)... a standard aerosol cannon produces a max of maybe 30ish PSI if the air/fuel mixture is perfect. :D Best part is I built a huge remote-fire (can fire from 50 ft away) cannon for my highschool science fair and won an honorable mention for my study of effects of increased pressure behind a projectile. I loved science :D

3" PVC endcap. I built this gun 11 years ago.

That comment was mostly directed towards Adam, as he had the (mis)fortune of standing behind it at Rausch a few weeks ago when the old endcap exploded. I think we had probably cracked it previously trying to unscrew the cap with a gigantic pair of pliers. Dried-up hair spray gunk holds pretty well.

I had also been used to using Aquanet, but apparently Suave extra-hold requires some different stoichiometry for an optimal mixture. Later testing has shown that it's a much more potent fuel.

After that failed, and the subsequent trip to the hardware store in downtown Pine Grove on a sunday night over labor day weekend failed, I still had most of a 5-lb bag of potatos left. We may or may not have removed the cast-iron fill plug from the fuel/oil tank by the office with a big pipe wrench, which might or might not have had the same threads/diameter as the PVC cap. Furthermore, I will neither confirm or deny that a potato fired from close range can go through the windshield of an XJ, as well as put a decent dent in a rear quarter panel.

The gun itself (and the combustion chamber volume vs. barrel length, etc) has a ton of testing & tweaking time. The one in question is Spudnik II; the first one was a really basic test mule; III was a mini gun for shooting chunks of the leftover scraps, and IV has a 10-foot barrel. II, III, and IV are all scale models of each other and the large one has gone over 1000 feet with Aquanet. II will reliably go between 600-700 feet on hairspray, with a muzzle velocity of over 100 MPH, and I've punched holes in 1/2" plywood with it.

II also features electronic ignition (courtesy of Weber), a shoulder rest (taken from a Nintendo Super Scope 6), a scope (the small spotting one from a telescope), and a little thru-bolt right at the bottom of the barrel so that you never have to worry if the potato is in the right spot.

I'll dig up a pic, but here are the technical details:
http://pages.prodigy.net/dmacock/photos/spudnik ii results.doc
 
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dont give a XXXX.

at every workplace there are people who drink and smoke. it just so happens someone caught it on camera here.

fiat is the best mother XXXXing thing to happen to jeep in the past 10 years save for the rubicon model debuting.

have you SEEN the new commercials for the GC? HAVE YOU?! THEYRE AMAZING.

jeep workers, if youre reading this, KEEP TOKING UP. its working great. :scottm:


We may or may not have removed the cast-iron fill plug from the fuel/oil tank by the office with a big pipe wrench, which might or might not have had the same threads/diameter as the PVC cap. Furthermore, I will neither confirm or deny that a potato fired from close range can go through the windshield of an XJ, as well as put a decent dent in a rear quarter panel.

hehehehehehe
 
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I couldn't two sh!ts about the workers drinking/smoking. As Americans this has been going on for YEARS and now all of a sudden people are getting all butt hurt over it? If I was in the market for new car and they were smoking IN the plant and IN teh cars, yeah I'd care. But you're not buying a brand new car with roaches on the floor and beer stains on the seats. Who cares? :dunno:
 
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Chris, I believe you that the potato canon is powerful as hell. However, I noticed a few inconsistencies in your math. You say it goes 147.64 fps and it's quarter mile time is .887 seconds... Which one did you measure and which one did you calculate?
 
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Here we go.

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There's a better one, just gotta find it...
 
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Chris, I believe you that the potato canon is powerful as hell. However, I noticed a few inconsistencies in your math. You say it goes 147.64 fps and it's quarter mile time is .887 seconds... Which one did you measure and which one did you calculate?

The quarter mile time assumes continued acceleration at the measured rate. :D

Haha.
 
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Hahahaha, so you're treating it like it's a 'car' and on a frictionless slider with the hand of God pushing it forward?
 
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