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Re: Most Powerful FIRST Team created T-Shirt Cannon
Would lamination (with carbon fiber or fiber glass) prevent fragmentation? Metal Mesh?
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I may end up making my half inch thick lexan boxes after all, We probably won't be able to replace the PVC but i'm going to install bulletproof box around them for saftey. The dump tank on the gun however i'm not sure yet.
http://maikenmagic.com/?ref=gallery&...irt%20Launcher |
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I think the real problem is the 'glassy' behaviour of PVC at room temperature. This is a characteristic of the polymer, and means it will fail in a brittle manner (fatigue and brittle fracture, neither of which would be non-catastrophic in a pressure vessel) rather than the ductile failure mode of a tank made of most metals or a different plastic.
I don't get why people choose to build a PVC air cannon after all the warnings that have come out over the years. There has to be a safer way of doing this. EDIT: fatigue is based on the pretty much uncontrollable microcracks in your material, it could fail after 1 cycle or a million, and it is pretty much impossible to tell when it will fail. Last edited by ,4lex S. : 22-05-2010 at 15:48. |
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Eye protection too, please. If this thing fails in the way people have been describing it may be the last thing your operators see!
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SDCantrell - Water will compress when you press upon it, just like every ordinary real material will. However, as John said, it compresses very little, and for that reason pretending it is incompressible is a useful approximation. John - Water's compression has nothing (or at least very little) to do with whether a 1000psi waterjet can cut something. That pressurized water will fly out of a nozzle and cut things is a separate topic from how much or how little it's volume changes when it is put under pressure. Blake |
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To be very blunt about this, can people please stop being unintelligent and just purchase something that is certified for air pressure instead of just assuming it will work for an air cannon?
Your robot for demo's doesn't need to come under any weight constraints so feel free to use a high capacity, industrial, CERTIFIED, tank. ie: http://www.toolsoutlet.ca/osc/images...ank%20copy.png Here's your testing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cal71EN5Gt8 Or you could be idiots like these guys and laugh about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQo81...eature=related Have fun with the shrapnel. ![]() Last edited by Akash Rastogi : 22-05-2010 at 19:30. |
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Your cannon has a chance of failure. What happens after failure is shrapnel, bits of plastic flying in every direction at ridiculous speeds. By definition, liquid water isn't compressible (liquids have a definite volume). Since water doesn't violently expand or change shape when its depressurized, there is no chance that it'll take the plastic with it. |
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![]() A good way to win the Darwin Award? . |
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![]() Call me a bit of a n00b, but I'm not sure I see the difference between water pressure and liquid pressure, PSI is PSI, no matter what is CREATING the pressure on the walls of the PVC, the pressure is still there, and (assuming it is regulated) the same amount in both cases. I understand that the PVC wouldn't be safe in this situation, I just don't really understand the difference between the ratings (liquid vs. air)... |
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It's how it fails that's the issue. Water, you get an incompressible (or close enough as to be easily approximated as such) fluid that, if it's under some pressure (as it might be in a sprinkler system), and it gets an outlet, it will leave in a reasonably orderly fashion, spraying out until somebody turns the water off.
Air, on the other hand, will try to all leave at once, causing further mayhem as it breaks whatever it's in further. If you have something that's rated for air, presumably it would have failure modes to safely release the air even if something breaks. What we're concerned about is the "mayhem" as the PVC breaks. I've seen PVC that's fallen from a height of about 3.5' break (fortunately, no pressurized air inside). |
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On a side note, our team operates our tshirt cannon off a 5-gal tank designed for air pressure (craftsman tank, I believe). It works fantastically well. PVC can not only fail in the piping itself, but it is also highly susceptible to end caps and joints failing. |
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I'm glad to know that your getting a metal airtank It's alot easier to spend some money and be safe, than to pay a hospital to fix you. By the way, a SCUBA tank would work fine, it holds more air at 3000psi, and is way more safe than any PVC storage tank you could practically come up with. Plus they have standard size fittings! Last edited by gorrilla : 24-05-2010 at 17:34. |
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![]() That's what we are going to use until we get a new tank, this one is rated 2560psi |
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