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Step 5Make a hose for pressure

Make a hose for pressure
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I thought of using canned air to pressurize the tank when I was thinking about what flammable substance I would fill it with. The included pump with the toy would require 10-15 pumps to get the tank just slightly pressurized and that pressure would quickly run out. At first I thought a solution to this problem would to be to mount a battery operated pump on top of the tank, but instead I realized a simpler solution would just be to add a can of air.

1. Cut an appropriate length of 1/4" hose that will reach from the can of air on your belt to the tank on your wrist.
2. Unscrew the cap on the top of the plastic bottle and remove it along with the string meant to keep it attatched to the bottle. Cut the string and discard.
3. Remove the rubber sealer from the rim, and drill a 1/4" hole in the plastic cap. Using lots of multipurpose weldit seal the inside and outside of the cap.
4. Wait for the glue to dry and then replace the rubber sealer around the hose.
5. For the other end of the hose make an attatchment that can be pushed down on the top of the can of air to pressurize the tank. The simplest way to do this is to remove the plastic top piece with trigger from the can and cut away everything but the circular verticle piece that directly attatches to the valve on the can.
6. Once you have the plastic piece (which should be about an inch long) sand the outside of it to make it rough. Cover the outsided sanded area and the inside of the hose with the weldit glue and wait 1 min for the glue to get tacky. Once the glue is tacky press the plastic piece into the hose as far as it will go and wait 24 hours or until it is completely dry.
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