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30 Apr 2010 05:47 PM

I would like to try to build my own guns. Does anybody have a list of materials for them. fast gun. I have a good idea but I dont want to miss anything.

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30 Apr 2010 06:45 PM
Do you need cannons now or can you wait a bit? I probably have almost everything needed in a scrap bucket I can bring to the next cle elum battle...

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30 Apr 2010 08:30 PM
Is there anything you don't have or can't do Greg?
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30 Apr 2010 08:33 PM
fancy lathe work, but I make a decent pass at it on the mill.... I may not have pistons/springs but I have a crapload of tube and copper fittings sitting in a box somewhere. I used to make cannons like the BC ones and let me tell you, making them sucks. I really should look into a small lathe sooner or later just to make plastic pistons.
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02 May 2010 03:55 PM

I've built quite a number of cannons for club members.  I've got a couple of spares sitting around.

Required tools:  small drill press, Dremil tool. cut off blade, boring bit, torch, solder.

Helpful: mini cutoff saw, bench grinder

Hard to find materials:  ss rivets $40 per box, springs from small parts,

Limited source materials: small co2 hose.

Common materials: copper tube, brass tube, brass fittings

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02 May 2010 05:22 PM
$40 for a box of rivets!!! holy BB Batman
McMaster-Carr sells boxes of 100 SS rivets for ~$10-$15.
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09 May 2010 02:53 AM

This was years ago and I think the box had 100 in it so I have many years to go till I hit the half way point.

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