Homemade 'Zookas - I dunno, just an idea.

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Striker
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Post by Striker » Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:35 am

If we put 20-something balloons over, say a 2 L coke bottle, and drilled a hole say 6/8 cm wide over the cap, and filled it with water, would it shoot any water? The water would obviously have to come from a pressurized source, and would only be useful for an emergency situation (both weapons out of water or something) but would it work?

Also, I need help regarding the trigger.

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Post by Rook » Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:02 am

It might... I don't think it would shoot over 20 feet, though.

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Post by Striker » Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:06 am

20 FEET?! Then it's just a waste of time.

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Post by SSCBen » Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:13 am

Homemade equivalents of the Splashzooka are easy to make. What you have described Striker doesn't sound like it will work and would be just plain sloppy.

Just buy a garden hose nozzle, a few threaded couplers, a hose coupler, two tubing barbs, two tubing clamps, and some latex rubber tubing. Buy some drain pipe and drain pipe caps to house the water gun in. Assemble. This is so simple that you don't even need to use PVC. Everything can be threaded on.

Range would be easily in the 40s. Output could be 20X. Shot time could be enormous. I still don't know why no one buy myself has made water guns like this.

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Post by Striker » Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:17 am

hey! can you show pictures of the Zooka?

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Post by SSCBen » Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:26 am

I never made one like that. Constructing one will be easy however. My experience with similar water guns are mainly with backpacks. I'm a big proponent of extremely long shot time, and I've put shot times in the minutes range before.

Normally I'd go out and make one to show you, but I don't have any money at the moment. Sorry.

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Post by dandoodatrite » Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:50 am

you'd actually come round and show him, man u ar devoted to ur water gun specs
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Post by Striker » Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:14 pm

Wow. Minutes. What are the nozzles like? 10X? Would that be possible? And how much pressure would the hose have to have to fill it. :soakon:

And could you just show a pic of the design? I don't know what a barb is like.




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Post by SSCBen » Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:08 pm

To shoot 10X for a minute, you'd have to have an 18 liter water reservoir. Possible, but heavy. Personally, I would put more than 12 liters on my back, and I'm pretty strong. 8 liters is plenty for most people. You'll have trouble getting more than a gallon (3.8 liters) into a single-piece, single tube design water gun however.

I'd talking about something small like 2X. That will last a while. Even still, 5X will last a while with a big tank.

A drawing of the design will be scanned in soon. In the meantime, please realize that Google is your friend and will find information about things you have questions about. What is a barbed fitting? Google image search reveals.

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Post by Striker » Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:03 pm

Thanks. Can I have an idea of what this gun will cost me?

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Post by SSCBen » Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:59 am

Doing the math based upon the prices I last saw, making one of these would cost about $25 (not including tax or shipping of the tubing). You'd have a lot of leftover pipe however. It would cost less per water gun to use up the leftover and make two or three of these. I'd imagine that you could build three for less than $60.

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