How to Make a Mini Potato Cannon

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How to Make a Mini Potato Cannon

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Have you alway wanted to make a potato cannon but never had the time well now i show you how to make a mini pocket sized potato cannon in under 10 min that is really easy and cheap to make

Stuff You Will Need

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NOTE :::::::
IM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING OR ANYONE YOU HURT WITH THIS OR IF YOU HURT YOUR SELF

Now that you have read that you van continue on

1. Any prescription medicine bottle

2. A pen tube

3. Piezo electric sparker i got mine from a old bbq lighter

4. Hot glue gun

5. Scissors

6. Hair spray ONLY NO GAS PROPANE OR ANYTHING STUPID LIKE THAT


Take Apart the Pen

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First take out the caps one each end of the pen with the scissors or your hand or pliers

Assembling the Mini Potato Cannon

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First take you medicine bottle and put a hole in the bottom of it like so make the hole big enough to fit the pen tube then force the pen tube into the hole and use the hot glue gun to seal it

Next take the scissors again and poke 2 holes in the side of the bottle fairly close but not very close this is where the piezo electric sparkers wires will go

Next put the piezo electric sparkers wires through the holes we just made and the use the hot glue gun to seal the holes to keep the wires from falling out of the holes

Next glue down the piezo electric sparker in you position of choice that its most easy to click the sparker

Getting It Ready to Shoot

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Yay most exiting part

First. make sure all the holes are sealed and all the pieces are on securely

Second. make sure the sparker is sparking

Third. take the hair spray and spray the inside of the medicine bottle twice for two seconds each then put the cover back on the bottle

Fourth. find your ammo i prefer pieces of paper rolled up into a ball and then once you have your ammo put it halve way fown the tube then just click the piezo electric thingy and your projectile should fly at least 20 feet or more

Shooting and Reloading

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To reload all you have to do it spray the inside of the container for 2 seconds then put the containers cover back on it and put what ever fits down the tube to use as ammo

To shoot just click the piezo electric thingy

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