cephas
February 22nd, 2007, 01:43 AM
Hello, I hope somebody can help me out.
My neighbor built me a Cannon for New Year’s Eve and Fourth of July to set off, I got so excited over his, he said he would make me one.
Here’s the description of it:
Stainless steel two inch stock 16 ½ inches long with a half-inch bore.
From the front of the barrel to where you put the fuse in it is 12 inches
From the fuse to the back of the barrel is 4 1/2inches.
Fuse hole is 1/8 inch diameter
From fuse hole inside barrel looking to back of barrel is a half inch and the other 4 inches is solid steel
It is all completely solid and the back of barrel does not come off of it. He really did a nice job on it; outside of barrel has nice lathing done on it.
He lathed around the barrel cutting into it all the way around and cut two pieces of aluminum steel that fit exactly around the barrel and the outside being a square then mounted that on a 1 1/8 inch pipe by 6 inches , putting axle through that and six inch steel spoke wheels on it.
I mean this thing is really cherry.
The problem I have is before he gave it to me he passed away. A few years later his daughter brought it over to me and I believe it’s a carbide cannon? but I am really not sure. And that’s about all I know about it.
Can anyone tell me what kind of material and fuse I need to use to fire this thing off? and exactly how to load it pack it and fire it. Any help would be appreciated and I can’t wait to fire this baby off.
My neighbor built me a Cannon for New Year’s Eve and Fourth of July to set off, I got so excited over his, he said he would make me one.
Here’s the description of it:
Stainless steel two inch stock 16 ½ inches long with a half-inch bore.
From the front of the barrel to where you put the fuse in it is 12 inches
From the fuse to the back of the barrel is 4 1/2inches.
Fuse hole is 1/8 inch diameter
From fuse hole inside barrel looking to back of barrel is a half inch and the other 4 inches is solid steel
It is all completely solid and the back of barrel does not come off of it. He really did a nice job on it; outside of barrel has nice lathing done on it.
He lathed around the barrel cutting into it all the way around and cut two pieces of aluminum steel that fit exactly around the barrel and the outside being a square then mounted that on a 1 1/8 inch pipe by 6 inches , putting axle through that and six inch steel spoke wheels on it.
I mean this thing is really cherry.
The problem I have is before he gave it to me he passed away. A few years later his daughter brought it over to me and I believe it’s a carbide cannon? but I am really not sure. And that’s about all I know about it.
Can anyone tell me what kind of material and fuse I need to use to fire this thing off? and exactly how to load it pack it and fire it. Any help would be appreciated and I can’t wait to fire this baby off.