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People be VERY VERY careful. Please use a scatter blanket as a minimum or dont do this at all.
My father and I made about 6 versions of potato guns using 2"- 4" PVC. We used every fuel you can imagine from breath spray to right-guard, ether, natural gas, propane, wd-40, etc etc.
DO NOT ever try to use accelerants i.e. pure oxygen. This is a very bad idea.
PVC is brittle and does NOT like to be stressed in by shooting things from them. ABS is a little more forgiving. Besides that the junctions or T sections can be as thin as 1/16th of an inch. I know this because I shattered a 4" T joint that was the base and combustion chamber of exploded. This made about 40 little sharp as hell fragments. One of which cut a 1.5'' gash on my shin to the bone. Cut my shorts in a couple of places. The WORST part was a dull piece hit me right in the head of my johnson! It hurt like hell and bruised it for several days. That’s when I get it all up. My dad continued with his until the next day when the barrel on his reinforced barrel cracked most of the way around.
Be safe with these things, much can go wrong.
-F
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