This is our fourth attempt, the first couple were pretty sad. We started with 10 grains of powder and worked our way up to this shot with 30 grains. Please forgive the poor quality videos, they were taken with our cell phones because we left our cameras home.This is our fifth shot with a 40 grain charge. It is really loud, and lots of fun. We decided to stop at 40 grains before we overcharged and had an accident.
This is Sid's Carbide cannon. After shooting a bunch of times he started putting a potato slug in the barrel and shooting it. It was pretty cool, and a lot safer than the Black powder cannon.
4 comments:
Boys and their toys!!! It looks like a lot of fun! Reminds me of when dad used to shoot off a cannon . . . . . I don't know if it was his or not . . .
Yep, Tina, we had a carbide cannon until I lent it to Joe.
George, talk to Ray Western in Deseret about the safety of acetylene gas. (carbide)
That's pretty cool. I'll have to show the boys, I'm sure they'll love it.
I remember that! I was the one saying, "po-ta-toes...". That was a lot of fun!
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