instead of the inner tube just use a rubber cork and a tire valve, its less expensive and doesnt leak at all. you drill through the center of the cork and shove the tire valve in, it works great. you can get the tire valve at a pep boys or auto store for less than $3. and you can get a rubber cork at any hardware store for a dollar or even less.
Did anyone actually build one of these launchers? It seems like a great idea, but when I made the "plug" by wrapping a strip of inner tube around the tire valve, I found that it leaks at the little gap formed at the end of the strip of rubber. Anyone solved this problem?
The way I did it is by using a bigger mouthed bottle, wound the rubber a little smaller than the mouth. After that I cut two three 1inch rings of inner tube and put it on it.
The 'trigger' makes no sense... The bike pump stopper needs to come out from the pressure inside the bottle for there to be a launch. The 'trigger' seems to be pretty much useless.
The stopper will come out at a pretty low pressure, probably no more than 20 PSI. With the trigger holding it in place, you can run the pressure up a lot higher. I use different triggers but I run the pressure as high as 140 PSI. 2L PETE bottles will burst at about 160, so pushing 140 is probably not a great idea, though they don't hurt anything then they burst, except to make a lot of noise.
I found a video of a guy with like 100 of these straped to his back. When they fied all at the same time it launched the guy really far...to bad i cant find it any more.
I know they said they proved it a fake but I just think they didnt do it right....they couldnt fire them all at once but I think I they had a better way to fire they it would have worked
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