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The one fab shop I worked at. We made potato guns. Used oxy/ace for fuel. Launch good size spuds about 400 yards.

Been there done that! Except we had a guy that came in with plans and his own special mix of gasses for a propellent. It would shoot golf balls, potatoes, tennis balls. We worked in an industrial complex. So testing was quite fun. Had the streets to ourselves on Saturdays. Tennis balls ehhh guessing a good 200 yards. Potatoes holy shit balls that went far.(couldn't see it hit the ground) 800+ yards as a guess. Switch barrels golf balls. No fucking idea how far it went. He claimed over a mile. All I know is the street was around a mile till it dead ended. Cleared it easily. Propellent was a combo of propane butane ether and something he wouldn't tell us.
Did find out later he worked for a company that did rocket booster shit.

 

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Been there done that! Except we had a guy that came in with plans and his own special mix of gasses for a propellent. It would shoot golf balls, potatoes, tennis balls. We worked in an industrial complex. So testing was quite fun. Had the streets to ourselves on Saturdays. Tennis balls ehhh guessing a good 200 yards. Potatoes holy shit balls that went far.(couldn't see it hit the ground) 800+ yards as a guess. Switch barrels golf balls. No fucking idea how far it went. He claimed over a mile. All I know is the street was around a mile till it dead ended. Cleared it easily. Propellent was a combo of propane butane ether and something he wouldn't tell us.
Did find out later he worked for a company that did rocket booster shit.

Our shop was right next to the Mon River south of Pittsburgh. Worked the weekends in the summer. At lunch time, we would see how close we could get to the boats. One guy put a potato right in the middle of of a small outboard, with 2 guys fishing. Scared the shit out of those guys. We were rolling on the ground laughing.
The one machinist took his home. He had some land, and his wife had a goat. He hated that goat with a passion. The goat was in a pen about 100 yards from the house. Wife wasn't home and he was drinking. He said that he hit the goat on the 4th shot. Said he thought he killed it. Knocked the goat down and it didn't move. He said that he was trying to think up a reason why the goat died before the wife came home. The wife came home. Did a few things, then went out the feed the goat. The goat was standing there waiting to be fed. He said he got lucky.

We made our potato guns out of schedule 10 aluminum pipe. From 1" to 4" in diameter.

 

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