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Reminds me of a customer of mine who liked to make "interesting toys". One day I dropped by and they had just finished a potato gun. The gun tube was 20 foot (6 meters) long. They used butane gas as the propellant and a spark plug as the igniter. The potato was loaded in a rotating breach like a revolver that could hold 4 rounds (spuds??). When fired the potato was forced through a cutter that cut it to a cylinder shape.
I spent a fun afternoon watching them shoot it. Max range was just short of 500 yards. This was done in large industrial park and they were shooting over 40 foot tall buildings. Every once in a while we would hear a car alarm go off had he would drive down and put a note on the windshield with is card. He later told me that he had paid out over $10,000 for the damage to cars but he said that it was well worth it. I should add that $10,000 was chump change to him
Jim Nunn
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There is a very fine line between paper modeling and mental illness.
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