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Here at PM we've been playing with spudguns, those armaments of the starch-loving, in which a Yukon gold is blasted from a homemade cannon at hundreds of miles an hour. These are flex-fuel ...
The ballistics of humble potato is a time-honoured research topic for everyone who likes things that go bang. The focus of such work is usually on the launcher itself, with the projectiles being ...
No one should ever make a potato cannon. They are wildly unsafe, powerful, and can easily shatter your neighbor’s gaudy bay window, you know the neighbor with the mean dog. That said, [Jeremy… ...
The Pedal Air Gun: DIY Rally 2007, Part 10 Our readers can—and do—build it all, and Bill Llewellin's heavy-artillery spud gun isn't the half of it.
CORVALLIS -- Potato guns, Corvallis police say, are not to be trifled with. Thus, they scrambled when a report came in that two people were seen on local school grounds firing guns. Here's an ...
The spud gun worked so efficiently because it employed the power of pressure. As the potato is jammed into both ends of the copper pipe, it creates an airtight seal.
Pneumatic potato guns that use compressed air are legal as long as they aren’t used like a weapon. (Creative Commons) Question: Is the use of bait launchers legal in California? I have seen many ...
If you've got a few extra spuds lying around, why not shoot them out of a large cannon? For some people a simple potato gun just isn't good enough. So why not make a triple-barreled spud turret ...
The Connected Set, the production outfit behind the popular gaming Youtube channel Mashed, has launched a new short-form animation studio called Spud Gun Studios. For nearly a decade, Connected ...
Some so-called "spud guns" are just little plastic toys using gentle air pressure to shoot small shards of potato. Henslee said many other homemade spud guns, like the one Friday's suspects had ...
Spud gun an immature act says mum A SUNSHINE Coast teenager found himself in court yesterday after watching an internet video on how to make a “spud gun”.