Fuck all snow round here I am in the tropics don't ya know!:D
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Fuck all snow round here I am in the tropics don't ya know!:D
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Your wife's wedding dress works just as well!:D
Don't forget to lube it
If he's lucky it will have a bit of old stuff on it!
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my 50 cal mini cannon on right awesome not a toy it would kill you stone dead will put a .490 lead ball trough 4 milk bottles full of water
you can make your own wick pm me if you want the recipe its not hard to do
hey there
pack her up with black powder untill powders coming out the end and she'll hit 900fps
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
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.:useless:
First firing tomorrow all going to plan:thumbup:
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'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 ?
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Good luck with the test firing VC, if the black ninjas come to take you away, we'll start a bail fund :D
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:D
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:cool:
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 :cool:
good luck with the cannon tomorrow please take and post a video of it for us to watch
Can I have your cruiser?
Cork tile wads will work well!
Here is the first firing with a projectile.
Went with 4 scoops or 120gr of powder, bit of rag with some copper coat for a patch around the ball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji-6...PYZVoYge0dD3gg
Went down to 3 scoops or 90gr which basically halved velocity so put up the steel again and went to 5 scoops or 150gr, bout the same velocity as 4 scoops so called 4 scoops good:thumbsup:
I had relinquished reloading duty by this stage and the guys must have bent the wick a lot at the flash hole because it got slow at that point.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ-3IZwwVqo
Who won the velocity guess then?
@gadgetman with 584?
Awesome
way cool, I cant believe you were chrony'ing a f$%ken cannon though.
Yeah looks like @gadgetman was almost right on the money.
Awesome how the chrony survived, must be stoked with that cam.
Nice GM he must have had a tail wind ! Or my 550 would have had it
Build a big two metre bugger now.