DarthDaveSep 11, 2007 4:39am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWq5rX1essc
-Darth Dave
My Airsoft Rocket Launcher Test Video
tanakazSep 11, 2007 4:45am
That looked painful...post pics of the bruise :twisted:
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DarthDaveSep 11, 2007 4:52am
it took us 2 weeks to do it, and that was only 2 real day so of work. Designing the darn thing took a while, then we hopped around to 3 different hardware stores over the next week trying to get the parts together. It was a lot of trial and error, b/c we had no practical idea how to do it. But now, after doing it, we could do it in a single day. But the thing costs about $100. The PVC pipe and fittings are cheap, but they add up. The sprinkler valve and the brass fittings (ball valve, 1/4 turn valve (the trigger) are what kill it.
-Darth Dave
metalmasterSep 11, 2007 4:53am
I want to check it out tomorrow! :D
DarthDaveSep 11, 2007 5:14am
yeah, the problem there is we don't exactly have "plans" for it. We made a plan for it one way, then reality hit when we went to the hardware store and we modified it all sorts of ways. But I can give you a pretty good idea about it at least...
-Darth Dave
GuestSep 11, 2007 5:14am
:D
DarthDaveSep 11, 2007 5:29am
yeah, we all thought of that after I got shot...next time that happens (if there ever is a next time) a pillow will be used. That foam chest pad I had gave me very little protection. Though, ideally, under safe use, this will never hit a living thing...just shot through windows and "blow" up houses/bunkers and such...and speaking of that, i can't wait for that thing to see action at Ord at the end of the month!
-Darth Dave
AndrewN · Supreme ChancellorSep 11, 2007 5:31am
Lets hope someone doest stick his unlucky head out of a window of a room your trying to blow up.
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BattledroidSep 11, 2007 6:21am
It looks like you have your riot control version finished. It was the cut down, low pressure, training version you planned to bring to Ord, right? :shock:
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DarthDaveSep 11, 2007 6:25am
right, low powered is easy...we are going to cut down the pressure chamber to 6" instead of 20"...that'll drop us from the 250/200 fps range to about the 200/150 fps range, and then we can always lower the PSI from 60 to something lower. I don't know what exactly the safe fps will be for that gun...Ord can decide. But they say that anything rocket launchers and misc launchers have to be below 400 fps...so I dont' know...
-Darth Dave
poserSep 11, 2007 12:00pm
blain-o made one a couple of years ago talk to him.
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PlayinWithFire77Sep 11, 2007 5:10pm
i built one like a year ago, it was freakin awesome. i love it, but its annoying to carry around cuz its so long. hurts like hell to get hit tho. lol.
RsyndcateDJSep 11, 2007 7:50pm
That was pretty cool but I'm sure engagement distances are a must for that sucker...
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