New project- Good idea?
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Oct 31, 2009 11:55 a.m. - Subject: New project- Good idea? |
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So, I have a new idea for a project: A homemade, large-scale, single-scale, guass gun. By large scale I mean 2500 volt, the end result being a shoulder-launched guass gun.
So, I lhave scrapped and can probably scrap a few things around my house to make this. I have taken apart a microwave oven and found a large, 2500 volt, capacitor. I can take apart a 1600 volt electric flyswatter in order to charge the capacitor.
I have a bunch of very heavy duty switches and wire that will probably not melt under the high voltage current. (I got the wires from between the walls of an office building. It was being torn down and my dad was the mayor at the time, so I got an all-access pass to the building.)
I have some basic experience and knowledge of electricity and some advanced knowledge of electromagnetism.
So- the question is- Good Idea?
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Oct 31, 2009 11:56 a.m. - Subject: |
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Of course it is a good idea.
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Oct 31, 2009 12:01 p.m. - Subject: |
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Oh, yeah, one more thing: What should I use as a projectile and a barrel? I was thinking just using some low-cost ferromagnetic bullets and a pipe with the same inside diameter as the bullet.
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Master Egg
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AIM YIM
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| Posted: Oct 31, 2009 12:06 p.m. - Subject: |
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How big of a boom is this thing going to make?
PVC or Iron pipe for the barrel.
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Oct 31, 2009 12:10 p.m. - Subject: |
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I don’t think taking microwaves apart is a good idea...
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Oct 31, 2009 12:18 p.m. - Subject: |
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I googled the Gauss Rifle and this is what they showed.
You can click on the pics and watch it move, cool.
click it
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Oct 31, 2009 12:21 p.m. - Subject: |
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(thank god someone finally spelled it right...)
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Oct 31, 2009 12:28 p.m. - Subject: |
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^ Yeah, tommyboy, thats not an actual gauss gun.
This is an actual gauss gun.
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Oct 31, 2009 12:58 p.m. - Subject: |
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make one like this, it looks pretty cool for a home-made thing!
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Oct 31, 2009 1:04 p.m. - Subject: |
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That sure beats the hell out of some magnets, ruler, and steel balls!
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Normal Egg
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YIM
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| Posted: Oct 31, 2009 3:55 p.m. - Subject: |
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Even though he said he wasn’t giving out plans, I’m attempting to get a schematic for the dual chargers on that pistol, coopz. I know enough to do the rest...
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Oct 31, 2009 4:02 p.m. - Subject: |
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This is pretty cool.
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Oct 31, 2009 9:15 p.m. - Subject: |
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pistol?... didnt look like no pistol to me...
Dunno what you’re talking about with dual chargers, didnt see him mention it anywhere, ot anythign about him not giving away details of anything. The de5cription seems to have explained exactly how it was done...
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Oct 31, 2009 11:03 p.m. - Subject: |
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Keep the magentron from the microwave intact. You can strap it to your enemy’s head, and literally poach his brain inside his skull, provided you have a long enough power cord.
The claim is anything that’s cooked, not merely reheated, in a microwave oven is poached.
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Nov 01, 2009 9:28 a.m. - Subject: |
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I meant Pyro’s vid, my bad :D
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| Posted: Nov 01, 2009 9:42 a.m. - Subject: |
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I see no reason why you can’t use disposable flash cameras for the chargers and flash caps for the capacitor banks.
As for timing, perhaps a photo sensor mounted in the barrel? Using a PIC micro controller would be much more precise and neater, but a photo sensor and an adjustable second coil may be easier.
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