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In the spirit of recycling, why buy a brand new bazooka when you can fashion one out of everyday household items?
The Naked Scientist’s Kitchen Specialist, Dave Ansell, presents the pinnacle in home security with his custom build vacuum bazooka. Utilising plastic pipes, tubes and foam covered projectiles, the vacuum bazooka really is a weapon fit for modern warfare (or science demonstrations).
Looking under the hood, this unit boasts 1300W of fully unadulterated Hoover power, a choice of loading mechanisms (from hand fed, to chain fed) and a firing range of over 30 metres.
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My gun…
why? why?
teaching the kids how make guns are ya? 🙂 Now I can make one!
Like it.
still better then nerf guns
My 4x Nerf DX1000 are quite awesome. Don't undermine them.
why not?
AK-47 concept 🙂
This would probably also work with saboted rounds. You could shoot jelly babies, confetti, Cadburys cream eggs, rusty iron nails, or titanium darts (as in the "sport" "darts") which of course have their own fin stabilization. Some more plumbing connections would allow you to connect a whole ring of vacuum cleaners. This would consume more electricity, so if your energy is not coming from a renewable resource I would advise against it. However you could move up to much heavier projectiles.
Probably best to stay away from lead and depleted uranium for obvious environmental reasons. But you'd be freed from the work hardening issues of machining titanium and could use normal or ultra-maraging steel.
A pulley running off the motor of one of the cleaners via a reduction gear would in the end simplify your ordinance feed issues, although I'm not currently disposed to discuss plans for auto cannon vacuum bazookas even if I had knowledge of such developments. Needless to say these concepts also apply to the vacuum mortar and its vehicle mounted derivatives.
those guys have nothing better to do
LOL! Luv it! It's like an anarchist's version of 'Blue Peter'… (anyone out there old enough to remember Blue Peter?) 😉
You have way too much time on your hands…
Hmm… this gives me an idea for a double action hand pump gun… but it'd probably be easier to just use compression off both strokes than alternating to vacuum
lol
cazzarola
2/10 Not fully turing complete
Are you bored?
Now you have to work on your projectiles; it looks like they all tumble.
Put Nitrogen Triiodide on the shells.
He looks like he's having trouble spinning the last one XD
awesome XD
can't get more Royal than that
You did all that, but couldn't find a way to hold up the bazooka so it wasn't so awkward to handle the ammunition for you?
With the removable box magazine design, you said it was inspired by the Bren. Well, I invented a nearly identical setup, but with mine I turned it 90 degrees to the left, whereupon it was inspired by the Sten. But then I lost grip on the main tube and gravity kicked in, causing it to turn 90 degrees to straight down. At that point it was inspired by the B.A.R.
Hi, I just saw this cool video. Good job lads. It would be interesting to know how fast the projectiles are traveling, the projectile weight and joules produced.
With time on your hands , wonderful ideas evolve from thought ,2 dimensional ((drawing)) to 3 dimensional ,(( the real thing.))……..Everything made comes from an inquiring mind….Well done, good man……