Build An Air Cannon for Cheap

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 6:52 am

I know, just what you need, another project to build before Burning Man. This one is coming together pretty quickly here my garage. Dig it at http://www.mutantvehicle.com/Apokizooka.htm and post your thoughts here.

Maybe we'll bump into each other on the playa and start a battle for "air superiority".

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:36 am

Another brilliant, yet diabolical innovation. My hat is off to you. Will you also be exhibiting the "1000 pound wench" mentioned on your site?

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:42 am

Yes indeedy, my shiny mechanical friend. For now, you can play the mini-movie of the winching (not wenching, per Killbuck) test on the website or click here:
http://www.mutantvehicle.com/images/Apo ... 20Test.MPG

Since you and I are of the same mind on so many things, I'd love to have a conversation with you sometime before the event. Please PM me your phone number and times PST that would be good for you.

Cheers, metal ears!

dragonfly Jafe · Post by **dragonfly Jafe** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:00 pm

Mister Jellyfish Mister wrote:I know, just what you need, another project to build before Burning Man. This one is coming together pretty quickly here my garage. Dig it at http://www.mutantvehicle.com/Apokizooka.htm and post your thoughts here.

How diabolical! We had one last year, but unfortunately Mother Nature conspired against us in actually deploying it on the Playa. May your fortune be better.

You may consider filling it w/ smoke from a smoke generator first, we could get visible smoke rings this way. Also, there are UV reactive smoke fluids, and with a UV spotlight, the rings glow at night as they roll by...

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 8:00 am

dragonfly Jafe wrote:[

You may consider filling it w/ smoke from a smoke generator first, we could get visible smoke rings this way. Also, there are UV reactive smoke fluids, and with a UV spotlight, the rings glow at night as they roll by...

COOL.

Gothalot · Post by **Gothalot** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 2:04 pm

Hmmmm this is strangely like the Pantzooka of Pantzooka Patrol fame. Have you spoken to them about this flagrant breach of limelight theft? What can you launch from this here contraption you made. Please see Gothalot at the Black Rock Beacon. Could be a story for us in this.

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 9:33 pm

Yes, the Pantzooka! Is that for people that sport the Donald Duck look with a shirt and no pants? I remember reading about that and thinking it was brilliant.

Actually we spit a little closer to whoever holds the patent on the Airzooka. If you're just shooting air you never run out of ammo. I'm off to Mr. Fixit's house tomorrow to see how we can mount it on the tricycle. Wish me luck!

Gothalot · Post by **Gothalot** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 6:38 am

Well, Id love to discuss some sort of photo op / story with you. Perhapse a duel between your org and Pantzooka Patrol. You could say I know the group intimately and I over heard in a seedy bar last night they want to launch pants at you for laughs.

[email protected]

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:05 am

Or adjust the cannon so that it REMOVES pants....thus creating business for the Pantzooka.

Gothalot · Post by **Gothalot** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:22 am

who needs a canon to remove pants, thats what tequilla is for.

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:29 pm

Gothalot wrote:who needs a canon to remove pants, thats what tequilla is for.

LOL, Goth. If we can get the thing to lock and load fast enough, we could play volleyball with the pants and they would never hit the ground. "Keep away from the naked boy... ha ha!"

Gothalot · Post by **Gothalot** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 7:52 am

Pantzooka Patrol wasn't to worried about the naked guy as long as he wasnt sporting the Donald Duck look. Vollyball it is! If we can find a court Pantzooka Patrol will easily take on a game with your lot pants or pantsless! We wear kilts anyway. Mwhahahahah.

ZaphodBurner · Post by **ZaphodBurner** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 3:12 pm

Far out, man. My friends and I were talking about building one of these (winch-powered, mounted to our structure.)

Nice to know it's been done, so I don't have to do it. Although it would be rad to have the power to randomly nuke somebody, or their tent, from a block or three away. Un/fortuantely, I'm not that good of an asshole.

-gatt

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 5:30 pm

Thanks, Zaphod. Great minds burn alike.

Hey, Jafe. Tell us more about the uv reactive silly sauce for putting in a smoke machine. That and a black light would make this a night terror on wheels!

Special shout-out to Mr. Fixit and Kernul Killbuck, my collaborative partners on bike rig and the lethal look, respectively.

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 10:35 pm

OK, thanks to Mr. Fixit and Irish, we're building a wierd tricycle to mount it on. More at a website for this air cannon at http://www.mutantvehicle.com/Apokizooka.htm

Peacekeeper · Post by **Peacekeeper** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 8:51 pm

Take Heed!

The UN High Commissioner on UNnatural Deployment of Technical UNovation hereby serves notice to ALL readers that Production, Research, Development, Sale, and UNdertaking of any works in relation to/in pursual of the abovementioned technology shall, to wit, be sanctioned UNder UNsecurity Resolution 2654;

"My Gun is Bigger than Yours"

Motion passed through Show of Hands.

Envoy Departs.

helitack · Post by **helitack** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:01 pm

Peacekeepers wrote: Envoy Departs.

That's peachkeepur speek for running away very fast to the portapottie with a load in one's pants.

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:38 pm

Prepare for blow job. Release the bellows and fire the ordinance.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 5:51 am

O Brave New World, that has such Widgets in it! Say the word, and I'll make a space allotment for gun turret on the Snowman if you'd like to try an aerial bombardment.

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:10 am

robotland wrote:O Brave New World, that has such Widgets in it! Say the word, and I'll make a space allotment for gun turret on the Snowman if you'd like to try an aerial bombardment.

Was it you that told me there is a chemical additive for smoke machines for UV? We could have black lights mounted and send out huge purple smoke rings!

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 8:49 am

I think it was Dragonfly Jafe that suggested the UV rings-juice...I'll have a couple of specially-hacked UV solar lights (thanks, Sparky!!) and would investigate more UV toys for such a noble purpose as this.

How heavy is the cannon, and how much room does it need to operate?

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 5:55 pm

robotland wrote:I think it was Dragonfly Jafe that suggested the UV rings-juice...I'll have a couple of specially-hacked UV solar lights (thanks, Sparky!!) and would investigate more UV toys for such a noble purpose as this.

How heavy is the cannon, and how much room does it need to operate?

Do you mean there are UV lights that charge up in the day like a solar malibu landscaping light? That's perfect! Is there such a thing as black light LED's?

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:13 pm

Searching hi and low for regulater for a lp gass cannon. It's made to freak birds out. Onehellofabang.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:05 am

Mister Jellyfish Mister wrote:
robotland wrote:I think it was Dragonfly Jafe that suggested the UV rings-juice...I'll have a couple of specially-hacked UV solar lights (thanks, Sparky!!) and would investigate more UV toys for such a noble purpose as this.

How heavy is the cannon, and how much room does it need to operate?
Do you mean there are UV lights that charge up in the day like a solar malibu landscaping light? That's perfect! Is there such a thing as black light LED's?

Actually, they ARE Malibu lights....They were "upgraded" by my friend and Hushville neighbor Sparks, who gave them to me last year. They're nothing to see in daylight, but in the absense of other light are fairly effective. not sure where Sparky got the diodes, but they're available online and at some autoparts places....

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:32 am

Kewl! Roger that.

Out.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:56 am

http://www.lsdiodes.com/5mm/

CQ...CQ....

I googled "uv led" and came here, first.....check their "freebies" page, too.

Over.

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:18 am

Egad! Checked for battery operated fog machines and the only thing I can find are the albeit cool ass theatrical models for over $1000. Since playa dust till be everywhere, especially close to the ground, I may experiment with water mist although it is often too heavy to travel with the air ring as it passes through the atmosphere. You know those little ponds you see in gift shops with the ozone generatory thingy in them?

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:30 am

I did some reading only to learn that UV LED's are on the longer band of the light spectrum and don't work so well with lots of standard flourescent paints, etc. Wouldn't it be cool if somebody researched playa dust itself to find out what specific color wavelengths reacted to it best?

Upon a suggestion here on E-playa last year, I used a 1 million candle power police spotlight covered with a "congo blue" color theatrical gel. Dimmed the hell out of the light and the effect was marginal. You just can't beat a real flourescent black light for the effect, and you can find 12 volt models pretty cheap that are made for automobile bling. "Cold Cathode" tubes may be another option. I've used these: http://www.elwirecheap.com/noname.html in different colors for under lighting. Fragile glass, though.

dj big E · Post by **dj big E** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:29 pm

[quote="unjonharley"]Searching hi and low for regulater for a lp gass cannon. It's made to freak birds out. Onehellofabang.[/quot

we had one of those devices in our camp two years ago fuck what a boom gave me a f ing heart attack a few times . If you find a spot to pick the whole kit up let me know. Nothing like a random boooom. lol

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:55 pm

Mister Jellyfish Mister wrote:Egad! Checked for battery operated fog machines and the only thing I can find are the albeit cool ass theatrical models for over $1000. Since playa dust till be everywhere, especially close to the ground, I may experiment with water mist although it is often too heavy to travel with the air ring as it passes through the atmosphere. You know those little ponds you see in gift shops with the ozone generatory thingy in them?

You can buy the fog thingys at garden stores- twenty bucks or so. Now: LOOK AT THESE:

http://www.zerotoys.com/newsite/products.htm

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