Thread: pic: Fully Automatic Tee Shirt Cannon - Pic 2
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Unread 09-03-2008, 04:38
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Re: pic: Fully Automatic Tee Shirt Cannon - Pic 2
A note on using CO2 tanks to power t-shirt cannons as mentioned above. Team 1726 tried this with little success for several reasons. CO2 regulators tend to be low flow and the conversion of CO2 liquid (in the tanks) to CO2 gas (which shoots the shirts) is highly endothermic and will chill the tank to the point where no more CO2 will flow very quickly is used repeatedly. Compressed air is a much better solution.
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