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Cool! Another fuel tank! And now, a stronger one! Hotter than the sun...I realy like that! Is your torch home made too? And now I noticed one thing...my spudgun is extra safe! Because the combustion chamber is not realy sealed shut. There are some 'loose' parts that can just pop out to let the extra power out without exploding the hole thing. So, it will not be dangerous at all! I just made a mini electrolysis device using another tic tac box (I have plenty of those!) and fed by a cellphone charger! Since I don't have a giant gun, I wont need a giant source! Now I've got to think of a way to keep and handle the gas! Already tried to set some gas on fire too! It made a loud BANG! Realy cool! I cant imagine that power in my spud gun! Also, was thinking of encapsulating some HHO into pieces of drinking straw with a small ball of play-doh on one end. It would make a "play-doh bullet". The thing would then be set by a piezo with needles!

I hope to see your Hydrogen engine soon!! My barrel also have parts that can pop out if the projectile gets stuck! (I made small "bullet shells" with projectiles inside. The reloading system just put a new shell on the end of the barrel.) if the projectile gets stuck, it can spit the whole shell. I think there is a lot of ways the pressure can go without realy blowing all the stuff up...(I still hope it can handle the punch!) Also, I just tryed a little bigger combustion chamber on the alcohol gun (now, without leaks so I didnt burn myself). It will be pretty fine to send a paintball flying in high speed! I think maybe I'll go mess with HHO later. For what I want, alcohol is good enough already (also, if I want to make paint ball guns, I've got to make one safe enough so other person can use it too and play paintball with me! XD). Thinking of it, its not hard to see that HHO technology can be further developed to make ultra light weighted guns in some near future (without those fancy exploding mechanism, just some electric ignitors to set the gas). In military hands it will be kinda scary, I guess. O_o

heheh..There might be something on this issue at car tuning sites or forums! I'm pretty sure somebody already made an Hydrogen engine prototype out there!

I'll post a video soon! For now, I'm out of time and ideas to improve the alcohol gun design (so I can say its kinda done for now!)!

Heheheheh...And yup! Its gona be hard to find those kind of suicide ppl! (Actually, I know some guys that would definitely accept it, but it is still too risky!)

Also I saw a video of what new guns are in development at US! They had thought of electric guns to make then lighter then current weapons! I don't know if it has HHO propelled, but was a good idea! There was also a weird 3-barrel handgun that acted like a machine gun (I think nobody will be able to hold it still though...the recoil would be too much!)

Here in Brazil, we don't really have a good weaponry research! Even the military here, I think they kinda sucks (Lazy guys that don't actually work on useful things and are paid to keep training, studying and practicing "war sports" for their whole lives...=p), so I doubt they have any cool new technology! XD

Hmmmmm. HHO car. Like riding a bomb! XD

I tried to assemble a bigger combustion chamber for my alcohol gun, so the video will wait a little till I solve the new problems that appeared...

I think the problem with the HHO gun is the space it takes, since gas has a bigger volume than powder.

heheheh...You are right about that! training, studying and practicing is crucial for making a good army, but we usually never declare war to anybody, so the military itself has almost no use here...(I think they should be fighting drug dealers here. Those Mafia bandits even have their very own army. And they are armed to the teeth! Our police alone will never ever take out those guys...=p) Well, they are buying military planes from France anyway...XD

hehehehe...Omg! It reminded me of an episode of The Simpsons where Homer sits on a nuclear bomb! XD. If it was a slogan before, now its a full banner!!

I'll probably film it tomorrow! Then I'll send you the link! =D

hmmm. Yeah, you're right! HHO could be compressed in small cilinders like in some air soft hand guns!

We don't like to fight. More interested in business I guess (which is just good! I dont like the ideia of a war around here!). And you are right about the quality of the planes!! I heard some of those crashed last week! And we are still going to buy those things!!

Hey! Loooong time no see!! XD

I've been out of the internet for a while, thanks to college!  hehehh...

So, whats up?! How are you doing with the projects?! Did you manage to make a HHO engine?! =D

Ouch! I remember when I hurt my ankles (both of them) playing spiroball (cuz there was a hole on the ground) ... could barely walk after that...=p

I thought there was no problem with fuel-air ratio while using HHO, since it already has the right amount of oxygen within...

Making a steam engine would be simpler, I guess...more like an old steam train engine...

Well, I've been studying a lot! Yesterday I've had an electronics test, so I'm not doing much on the projects either... Also, I've had an idea for a bigger and better semi-auto alcohol gun... I'm just gathering materials for the project now! XD

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welcome!!

I had to subscribe! I realy enjoyed your instructables! =D

I saw the jet engines and the lighter valve ones! Liked the engines because I never thought it was possible to make it homemade...XD Liked the lighter valve because I've been building a mini-spudgun (I tried to make it work by butane, but then I gave up and started using alcohol)...even if I wont use a valve on this project, it's still a great thing to use on other ones...(and since I have some old bic lighters laying around here...)

Wow!!...If you do try an MK2, I would love to see it!! Hopefully we're gonna have a video of the engine working?! XD I'm soooo gonna disassemble my lighters now...Lol! I noticed the proportion problem with butane when I first tried to make the spudgun...It was sooo hard to make it work...but with some drops of rubbish alcohol, I can fire my gun around five times without reloading (I use a Tic Tac plastic box as combustion chamber)...I only have to purge the chamber from the non-burning gases...

heh...School...Mine is back too! Don't worry. Christmas is coming soon! heheheheh...Think about what you could do with all these lighters! There might be something cool to do with so many valves! Like a pneumatic control for a mechanic arm or something like that!! About the tic tac container...Its so small that the firepower is almost zero! The next time, I want to try it with a bigger combustion chamber!

hmm..Wrestling season! Are you a sportsman?! Cool! heheh... Mens sana in corpore sano! =]

Pneumatic Legs! Would be cool to make a two leg ortesis for stronger legs!

And you are right about the spud gun! Bigger is usually better! Actualy, the idea behind my spud gun is to create something close to a paintball gun...So I'm thinking of using some plastic 350 ml soda bottles for the combustion chamber of my next version...If I can develop something like this, I'll be able to make more of those and save some bucks in paintball games with friends!

Hydrogen would be cool! But would be kinda hard to obtain and store (and pretty dangerous too!).

heheheh...Mens sana in corpore sano means A healthy mind in a healthy body! =D Wrestling is a nice good sport! Need to be strong to do it right, I guess! (it means its not for me) heheh =]

I once had a teacher in college who developed ortesis to help ppl with problems in the legs. It was pretty cool!

heheheh...An hydrogen paintball gun?! That would be awesome! I had read about electrolisys around Instructables too, but I'm kynda lazy to set anything up and then waiting for it to load the bottle! XD

More than that, my parents would realy freak when they find out I'm making such an explosive thing here! (my spudgun is kept in secret in my room...) So, I cant keep it pluged on the power source.

What happened in Hindenburg?! I never heard anything about an hydrogen accident! (I'm from Brazil and do not watch or read the news too much)

hehehe...Wrestling is awesome!! I liked to play soccer when I was in high school. Now, in college, I dont realy do any sports.

5 to 10 minutes?! Its quite quick! But you plug it on the energy source on your wall, right?! Or you use a battery for the job? If its a battery, might be kinda strong one!

Hehh.. You are lucky for having parents like that! My mom usually asked me what was exploding on my room when I first tested the spudgun! XD
Thank God it had a small combustion chamber, so it didnt make that much noise.

Brazil is a cool place to live! And the girls around here are not bad at all either! =3

Oh! So Hindenburg was that giant zepelin that caught on fire!! I heard of that on history classes, but didnt remember its name! XD
Well, yeah. Hydrogen is terrible if you want to use it as a low density gas to make things float. But its realy great (and green) if you think of it as a fuel!

Actualy, it reminded me of another accident involving a flamable low density gas (now, that I'm thinking about it, guess it might be hydrogen). It was a girl that got burned after she bought a baloon from some cheap (and stupid) clown in a amusement park! Probably, the baloon was set on fire by a light cigarrette. Ppl are kinda right by thinking of hydrogen as a dangerous thing, since it deserves some caution.

Well, I kinda miss the sports I did in high school. XD. I'm starting to get fat. 1 liter per minute? Would be cool to have such a production! I read about a "Hydroxy" generator around here on Instructables. Now THAT seems dangerous! I mean, it doesn't even need air to burn! Its realy explosive and hard to manipulate (since you must have a great valve protection system to avoid sparks from going into the tanks!)! Do you store the hydrogen and oxygen together in the same tank too? Holding the bottle with hydrogen doesnt look to be so dangerous, but storing the mixture is basicaly keeping a bomb in the closet!

Running is good too. Sometimes I do it, but is not as fun as those group sports like wrestling and soccer! =]

HHO! Be carefull with static sparks too! They say you can cause a fire while filling your cars fuel tank, when in cold dry days. That happens because the friction of the clothes (usualy coats) and the plastic parts inside the car creates static electricity which causes sparks when you touch the metal parts of your car! It means you should leave the HHO tank in some grounded place to avoid those unpredictable sparks too.

heheh...You see. I'm realy interested in that form of energy, but a little concerned about the risks involved! Better to build a small fire extinguisher before I start using it! XD

Hmm...Yeah! You're right about it! I know a guy who can almost forget where he is when he's running! XD Just like meditating, I guess! Heheh! good for you to have no cold dry days! Here in Brazil, winters are cold (somewhat cold...I mean less hot than the summer! XD) and dry, so whe must take some care. I'm even more concerned now because I've tried a Gatorade bottle for combustion chamber. And because of some bad ideas I've had before, the bottle had some leaking points! The result is that I bruised my hand a little with hot pressurized alcohol! XD But it happened because the alcohol burned and not exploded. If it had exploded like you said the HHO does, I guess there would be no hot pressure jet on my hand. Maybe a hot puff, but not a jet! I'm considering on having a source of HHO soon. But I'm so gona store the 2 gases in different tanks! and just find a way to measure it up when mixing to use. It will be a lot safer! Also, try to shot with mini spud gun filled with HHO, without any ammo, against a cotton chunk. I set one of those on fire while doing some tests using alcohol. Lucky enough, i was near a water source when did this. XD

Heheh... I've never seen snow in my whole life! Hope to see someday...XD

How do you test your pressurized stuff with water?! Like with a water compressor?

Omg! Your HHO explosion accident was rough too I guess! Safety goggles are a must for this kind of experiments (not just because my eyes, but because I like my eyebrows right where they are!)

Actualy, the production of HHO would be the same if I separated the gases. It would take more time only because we would have 2 tanks to fill.

I will probably try the cotton fire thing as soon as I get my HHO unit! =3

Would still be fun to play with snowballs! Hmmm. Your right! you can't compress water! XD (D'Oh!! I forgot the basics of phisics?! OmG!) Anyway, I thought you used a water pump or something to force water inside the bottle. Yeah! I'm thinking of making a mini fire extinguisher too! Guess its gona be usefull! heheh...Your setup might be cool!

An airgun that works on CO2? That would be definetely a Paintball Gun project! I'll try to build my HHO mini-source today. I watched a video on how strong is the HHO explosion! Like you said, there is no visible fire, but there's a sharp loud bang! I'll try it on the tic tac box, so it wont be a big enough explosion if something goes wrong (also, I'm too lazy to build a new gun only for the HHO! I want to squeeze the maximum firepower of my current gun!

Hmm... you took apart a fire extinguisher?! WOW ! That might be prety hard to do. But yeah! Compressed CO2 and powder (that I believe is sodium bicarbonate)! heheheh...Is the explosion THAT hot?! But even if it does damage the tic tac box, my gun has some cardboard coating outside to house the shell reloading mechanism. So I guess it could hold the reaction...an explosion would not be a total disaster...maybe a little disaster, but not a catastrofic one...(also wearing goggles and ears protection...probably it will not be that big deal...)