Car Tire CPS PCs?

[Poseidon2000]

Would the inner tube of a car tire be a good source for elastic pressure?

[SEAL]

That's a very good question. I know people use bike tubes for CPH PCs, so I guess you could use one from a car. Does anyone else see a giant CPS water cannon possibility? That's if it actually works; I don't know how you could get around the circular shape.

[Poseidon2000]

I'm thining of a Powerpak CPH, so it would be on my back...


OR, supercannon3, with 6 tires together for a PC!

[mr. dude]

That's if it actually works; I don't know how you could get around the circular shape.

You can just chop it and close one end up, no problem there.

It could work, I don't know enough about the elasticity of the material, but at worst I'd just fear for its durability.

[SEAL]

Yeah, that's what I thought of, but the problem would be that it would still be very curved. Not that it really matters; you'd just have to work around it. I don't think it would hinder performance.

[mr. dude]

Yeah, shouldn't be too much of a problem, it'd straighten out once it fills up.

[atvan]

Aren't car tires (almost typed tyres ) lower pressure than bike tires?

[Poseidon2000]

Yeah, car tires are less than bike, however bike tires are 75+psi. Car tires are 50ish. Exactly what i want!

[DX]

Depends on the type of tire. My car tires are only rated for about 44 PSI and my old mountain bike is similar. My racing bike is rated for 130 PSI, though. I would think that tire inner tubes would make for crappy bladders compared to LRT. The shape, unknown tolerance for expansion etc. make it a gamble.

[Andrew]

I don't know how far a car inner tube can expand. The best inner tubes to use are latex ones (same material as the latex rubber tubing) which you can find on higher end bikes. Unsure if you can find latex car tyre inner tubes.

Also (being the size they are when empty) you'd be left with a HUGE amount of dead, unusable, space. Water will just sit there and not get fired at all once it shrinks to it's resting size.

I didn't think many cars used inner tubes any more? I thought they were pretty much all tubeless nowadays.

[Poseidon2000]

Eh, there's a pepboys closer than mcmaster, so just wanted to be curious.

[Fishfan]

OR, supercannon3, with 6 tires together for a PC!

SuperCannon III has already been made, and I already made plans for a SuperCannon IV!
http://forums.sscentral.org/showthread.php?t=5580
Look farther down the thread, and you'll see he started to call it SuperCannon III
You could call it SuperCPSCannon, all though that is a bit long, I think SuperCannon name should be just piston air cannons.

[Poseidon2000]

Who made it? GJIV? You? Who? I feel left back...

[SEAL]

The 6" water cannon was made by adronl, an SSC-only member who doesn't post anymore. I asked him about the range in that thread, but he never measured it. It's a shame, because I really wanted to know how far it shot if it was powerful enough to set off a car alarm by shooting the car.

As far as names, what about CPSWC? Or you could use a fancier name like ElastiCannon or whatever.

[Poseidon2000]

I picture the next SC to have a tube that's 1' thick and is 4', pressurizing to 174.13125w46ubgfyjf psi [ ] and shoots 12345678900987654321.8 feet at 102938476x output per millisecond....

Ah, dreams!