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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by n/a[/i] [br]I've been building water balloon flingers for several years now. Recently I started using potato guns as an engine for launching them and have been really pleased with the results. It's nothing novel, I just modify Dixie cups to fit my barrell and slide the balloons on in! The only problem is that the balloons come out at such a velocity you could never actually shoot one at a person! (which kinda defeats the purpose if you ask me) So here's my question/challenge: is it possible to make canon that could accurately shoot a water balloon at "safe" speeds? I'm currently away from my shop for the summer or I'd run the experiments myself. I have drawn up a few plans but I'd like to know if it's even possible b/f going forward with any of them. It'd be great if the canon was somewhat accurate, although I'm not expecting a lot because I am shooting waterballoons after all. :) I'd settle for a consistant distance even if it's not that great. (50 yards, maybe?) anyhoo, let me knoiw what you guys think. [/quote]    Insert an Image File (GIF, JPG, JPEG, BMP, ZIP, PNG) Check here to include your profile signature.