Slow mo Potatoe Gun Explosion

[psijac]

[earlwb]

I liked that episode. There is a lot of information that I got out of watching the video. Thanks for sharing.

[ScottDLS]

Was it Dan Quayle's "potatoe" gun???

[greenbeer]

Awesome thanks for that!

[dlh]

Before you make your own "potato gun" you might want to check with your local law enforcement. Some believe they are illegal bazookas under the Texas Penal Code.

I recall years back in Austin some frats played some of their silly drunken games by firing potatoes at one another with potato guns. The Austin Police Department confiscated them.

[WildBill]

Do not try this at home.

[Mick22]

I had one back in high school. Those were the days.

[ELB]

He needs to shoot that thing through a chronograph to see if the end-chamber and mid-chamber ignitions make any performance difference. :)

[Papa_Tiger]

Unless he can carefully calibrate the amount of propellant he is using to ensure identical energy profiles, I'd imagine it would be hard to draw too many conclusions.

[jb2012]

I made a few of these growing up. Not the smartest thing I ever did...not the dumbest either! haha I survived the lost non-padded generation, where when you got hurt you were told to "rub some dirt on it and cowboy up!"

[ELB]

Unless he can carefully calibrate the amount of propellant he is using to ensure identical energy profiles, I'd imagine it would be hard to draw too many conclusions.

"One- Mississippi, Two-Mississippi" is a time-honored calibration method....