how to make your own micro spud gun. WHAT YOU NEED: pen,travel tylenol bottle, BBQ ignitor,roll of electric tape, two push pins. STEP1: wrap the roll of electric tape around the end of the pen tubing until it fits tight in the end of the bottle. cut off the end of the bottle which dosen't have the cap on it. STEP2: stick the pen in the cut off end of the bottle and tape the edges so it is air sealed air tight. STEP3: stick the push pins in to the bottle about 1 cm away from each other. STEP4: take the two wires from the BBQ ignitor and place them under the push pins. tape this tight to the bottle. STEP5: now tape the BBQ ignitor to the bottle. you are now complete. HOW TO USE: stick the end of the pen in to a potato to form a potato slug. take of the cap of the pill bottle and put in about 1 sec of deordorant. don't use too much or the gun mill melt or explode. quickly put on the lid and prees the ignitor. you should feel a very small recoil.
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The plastic spudguns from pens or straws ^&^$. If you want to see a really good mini spud go here: http://splorg.org/~tobin/spudgun/ Scroll down to the MiniSpud. It's a solid metal construction, so I guess can work with any fuel, including hydrogen+oxygen
how to build a mini spud gun
Posted - Feb 15 2004 : 3:21:55 PM
