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Re: Optimizing Air Cannon Range
Three things: like Cody said, rolling the t-shirt and taping it will significantly improve your range. Secondly, the valve has an ID of like 3/4", so your tank with the 1/2" fitting may be a bottleneck, but thirdly, t-shirts are not really the best projectiles for perfomance. If you really want to see capability, find a ball that more or less perfectly fit's the ID of your barrel. Shirts, unless rolled in a very tight, almost bullet like shape with a perfect mate to your barrel, will not fly extremely well, no matter what you do.
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