Load the air cannon.
Pvc air cannon explosion.
Pressurize the air cannon.
Unlike my first airgun this one uses a solenoid valve from a lawn sprinkler system.
Fun for the whole family.
A two stage chamber sealing quick exhaust piston valve air cannon that you can build out of common plumbing components for about 100.
When using pvc pipe with compressed air you run serious risks.
The total build costs around 70 assuming you have basic hand tools and it takes 24 hours for the glue to cure.
6 feet of 3 diameter pvc pipe 1 1 1 4 pvc ball valve.
There is not much wood in this project.
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The most dangerous of these is that of explosion.
It can transport liquids of all kinds as it is highly corrosion resistant.
Despite how much it can do there are certain jobs that pvc pipe just can t handle.
One of those jobs is compressed air.
Bottles of water for the kids bottles of liquor for dad kitchen utensils for mom food for the dog the dog kidding stuffed animals for the little tykes.
Ben recently built an awesome high power air cannon out of pvc pipe.
Air cannon operation instructions 1.
Instead i use pvc to make a air cannon to shoot tennis balls and ping pong balls.
Inspired by the pvc based designs of spud gun enthusiasts but leaving out the potato i ve found a better approach.
1 3 pvc end cap 2 3 2 pvc reducers 2 2 1 1 4 pvc threaded reducers the 1 1 4 end needs to be threaded to fit the ball valve 1 husky 12v inflater with light all the above can be bought at home depot for about 40.
How to build a generic air cannon.
For the cannon you will need a bike an air pump and pvc hence the pvc air cannon.
I call it the boom stick.
Make sure it gets to within an inch about of the u connector but don t push it into the u connector.
In this video i build a powerful air cannon out of pvc pipe what else.
Here is how to build an electric air cannon for film and recreation.
Pvc air cannons are great and everyone should build one of these at some point in their life but w.
Here s a full list of parts.
