Thread: Take a punt

My fuckin missus would hit the roof at 1200fps second if I filled her up till it pisses back out! that's if could catch the wick to light it first

Originally Posted by rambo-6mmrem

you can make your own wick pm me if you want the recipe its not hard to do

cotton string and wet black powder then let dry?
That was plan a.

Illsay 600fps for the cannon and friggin fast for you as your better half attempts to de nut you for firing it right through the brand new ranchslider doors(shut of course).Id be tempted to take it up to "ponderosa dundee,lubricate the round with a good slug of watties then get the dunees to anchor it whilst you do your stuff.
in the event of all going tits up would it be impolite to ask is there enough on the bar for a decent pissup after we send you off.

Originally Posted by kotuku

Illsay 600fps

in the event of all going tits up would it be impolite to ask is there enough on the bar for a decent pissup after we send you off.

No not at all and probably not



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First firing tomorrow all going to plan:thumbup:

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Originally Posted by Neckshot

My fuckin missus would hit the roof at 1200fps second if I filled her up till it pisses back out! that's if could catch the wick to light it first

Say whaaat??

'Good luck' VC.....thats about all i can say on the subject......

Will it be a live feed on the forum ? Or should we be watching the lunch time breaking news ?

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

First firing tomorrow all going to plan:thumbup:

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Got a back up plan?

Originally Posted by Rushy

Got a back up plan?

Backing up is slow, better to turn and run!!

Fizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. BANG!

Good luck with the test firing VC, if the black ninjas come to take you away, we'll start a bail fund

Weather doesn't look to good tomorrow but if not raining and the spot the guys have lined up to test is suitable(farking big soft back stop etc) will be all go.
One of my powder dippers takes 30gr of the black powder mix so will do reverse handloading procedure and put 3 scoops in or 90gr first firing to "PROOF" it, will wall in with steel to protect myself and others from bad things.
If nothing blows up will go down two two scoops and depending on velocity and un burnt powder one scoop.
That is of course assuming it fires
Have done a test fire just with a rag rammed down the bore on top of a scoop on the end of my 300mm rule of milled but not granulated powder and no wick just powder packed down the wick hole. It went and smelled like Guy Fawks night
Since then powder has been granulated which according to my googling helps bond the components on a molecular level and increases efficiency but the bigger the granules the slower it is.I have never seen commercial black powder but my grain size is about half of 2208 or twice superformance.
Made some wicks that work great with nice consistent burn outside the cannon but who knows if they will work in it....I think/hope they will.

Gook luck

good luck with the cannon tomorrow please take and post a video of it for us to watch