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multi water balloon launcher
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 4:13 am
by robotwarsrules
i had a cool idea that i could make a douchenator water balloon cannon that could have 3-5 barrels, so it could fire loads of water balloons at once.any ideas of how to make one??????????????????
Re: multi water balloon launcher
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:03 pm
by Gold Hawk
Uhhhh... I guess duct tape a bunch of Douchenators together?
Re: multi water balloon launcher
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:04 pm
by isoaker
Gold Hawk wrote:Uhhhh... I guess duct tape a bunch of Douchenators together?
Simple, yet theoretically effective solution!
I think this guy wanted to create a split-valve multi-nozzle WBL using a single PC to power a whole bunch of firing tubes at the same time. As each tube would divide the available power, the PC would need to be X-times more powerful given X-number of nozzles. It'd likely be easier to build some sort of water balloon catapult or trebuchet instead of a multibarrelled launcher if one wants to lob many water balloons at the same time. Either that, or as Gold Hawk noted, strap a bunch of single WBLs together.

Re: multi water balloon launcher
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 3:04 pm
by Gold Hawk
isoaker_com wrote:Gold Hawk wrote:Uhhhh... I guess duct tape a bunch of Douchenators together?
Simple, yet theoretically effective solution!
I think this guy wanted to create a split-valve multi-nozzle WBL using a single PC to power a whole bunch of firing tubes at the same time. As each tube would divide the available power, the PC would need to be X-times more powerful given X-number of nozzles. It'd likely be easier to build some sort of water balloon catapult or trebuchet instead of a multibarrelled launcher if one wants to lob many water balloons at the same time. Either that, or as Gold Hawk noted, strap a bunch of single WBLs together.

My idea requires less work, and would probably be more accurate than a catapult or trebuchet.
My dad and I actually built a trebuchet that flings a baseball about 150 feet. That was about 4 years ago.
Re: multi water balloon launcher
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 3:37 pm
by HBWW
Just load muiltiple balloons into one barrel. To decrease reload time, use muiltiple PC's, a bolt/breech of some sort, and/or a high pressure air system. (which would be pretty expensive and hard to build)
Re: multi water balloon launcher
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 4:21 pm
by SSCBen
It'd be rather trivial to make a barrel assembly like the "turret" Nerf guns. We've discussed this previously at SSC but no one's had the time to make it yet. With that and a semi-auto valve assembly you could have a pretty simple to build high ROF water balloon launcher.
Re: multi water balloon launcher
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:36 am
by Sun
Gold Hawks idea sounds nice, however the problem is that a bunch of douchenators strapped together would be kind of heavy.
Re: multi water balloon launcher
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:58 am
by Gold Hawk
Sun wrote:Gold Hawks idea sounds nice, however the problem is that a bunch of douchenators strapped together would be kind of heavy.
So would a multi barrel mater balloon launcher.
Re: multi water balloon launcher
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 3:58 pm
by Sun
Yeah, and that.