Bazooka Question for all You do-it-yourselfers

[SpyderSniper]

All right, im trying to make a homemade paintball bazooka for a huge scenario game. So if you have made one before please tell me how.

[Badger]

Before you begin, make CERTAIN that the field allows for them. I know that down in Oklahoma, they had to ban bazookas because some jack@ss put a wooden dowel in one, thinking he was funny. It shot a hole through a paintball tank.

Bazookas NOW at OK D-Day consist of putting a regular paintball marker inside PVC tubing, made to look like a bazooka, but shoots paintballs only. They are then given special colored paint to take out a tank or barricade.

[badmoon]

splat tag does alow it\ dump vave pvc and the purple sealnt

[Squib]

Look for 'sprinkler solenoids' or the superior 'pilot assisted diaphragm control valve'. Your average hardware store sprinkler valve will fire at just 9v DC rather than it's factory 110v AC.
for heavy duty projects I suggest metal housing rather than plastic.
DO NOT add a CO2 or HPA tank directly to pvc as pvc is rated at around 400 psi on the high end. A CO2 or HPA tanks output pressure is somewhere around 700psi (unless it is a low pressure compressed air tank).
If you chose to use an external air tank (to be safe leave CO2 alone it fluctuates to much) I would use a welding tank regulator to bring down the output pressure to 200 - 250 psi, you really don't need much more than that to fire a nerf round effectively.

Badger, you should do a book on building Tanks, Launchers, mortars, and howitzers and the tactics involved with them. There is allot to cover on this subject.

[Darrin]

Here is some info on how to do it.

http://www.geocities.com/madman250/Cannon.html

http://www.geocities.com/madman250/Pictures/BigCannonThumb.JPG

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