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by Thermy
Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:03 pm
Forum: Homemades
Topic: Our New Guns! We need some help with ideas
Replies: 17
Views: 4382

Re: Our New Guns! We need some help with ideas

My phones camera will not work for some reason... anyway we are getting up at 4 this morning and going after our first team. All girls that are not taking this too seriously. We plan on blocking off the driveway and getting one of them while they clear it up.
by Thermy
Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:49 pm
Forum: Homemades
Topic: Our New Guns! We need some help with ideas
Replies: 17
Views: 4382

Re: Our New Guns! We need some help with ideas

We ended up building it just like in the article, but had to improvise the actual valve to pump it up by just cutting one off an old bike tire. I'll post some pics later tomorrow.
by Thermy
Sat Apr 21, 2012 3:04 pm
Forum: Homemades
Topic: Our New Guns! We need some help with ideas
Replies: 17
Views: 4382

Re: Our New Guns! We need some help with ideas

Thanks for the welcome! Our teams are 4 people each, with 50-70 teams competing. I'll post the rules as copied from the facebook group. Water Wars 2012: Rules and Regulations 4 PLAYERS TO A TEAM; ONE TEAM CAPTAIN; $5 each participant totaling $20 for a team. GARAGES ARE OFF LIMITS, THEY ARE TREATED ...
by Thermy
Sat Apr 21, 2012 1:20 am
Forum: Homemades
Topic: Our New Guns! We need some help with ideas
Replies: 17
Views: 4382

Re: Our New Guns! We need some help with ideas

Thank you so much, we will head out to the store tomorrow and grab a few Colossus's, and we have enough left over parts to make a hose pressurized APH too! For our current guns though, when you say get caps, do you mean putting a cap on where the pump goes in and then drilling a hole big enough for ...
by Thermy
Fri Apr 20, 2012 11:31 pm
Forum: Homemades
Topic: Our New Guns! We need some help with ideas
Replies: 17
Views: 4382

Re: Our New Guns! We need some help with ideas

Alright, so using a pump would do nothing, damn we're so lazy haha. On our bigger gun of the 2 we added a cap and handle to the pump, is it expected for water to start leaking at some point no matter how well we put the pump together? When I go to Lowe's tomorrow I'll check out the skirts. We are us...
by Thermy
Fri Apr 20, 2012 8:04 pm
Forum: Homemades
Topic: Our New Guns! We need some help with ideas
Replies: 17
Views: 4382

Our New Guns! We need some help with ideas

Hey guys! Our high school has an annual water wars with a $2,000 grand prize. It is for seniors only and our team wants to go out with a bang. We have never made our own guns, but got some money together this Thursday and got to work. What we have now are two basic APH guns, following the instructio...