SEMI AUTO POTATO CANNON for the Homemade Screw Tank

Colin Furze World of Tanks Screw Tank Project, Part Six, Quite, Quite, Quite. Got it, I know what you're thinking Colin, we want you to put the most epic

potato

launcher in your wonderful

screw

tank

. I think it's on the Internet, so. I have been making a

homemade

screw

tank

. There are many videos on the channel. You should go check them out and SUBSCRIBE while you're there, that's what I do now. This thing is amazing, it goes up hills, it goes through swamps, I love it, but. It does not have a defense system and that is what we have to solve.

Now this project has a sponsor in World of Tanks. If you go and check it out, there's a link in the description. If you enter your tantic promo code, you will get five hundred free tank gold pieces and seven days of premium access, but after playing it. game, I realized, wait a minute, you suggested you wanted a flamethrower or a

potato

launcher. You don't find flamethrowers on tanks, but they throw things, but they don't just throw one thing, no, they throw several things, so there we are. I'm going to make a potato launcher, it will have some kind of reloading system pow, pow, pow! that's the way to go, okey-dokey, oh, it's well done, we're ready, it doesn't work, it's the most designed potato launcher the internet has ever seen, so it's got a gas bottle, it's got a regulator, so we have constant pressure, it comes here to a solenoid valve, it goes down through the pipe, it comes out above the Mixy Mixy Mixy fan and then a piezoelectric unit presses a button, it goes potato! right, I'm going to give it a test, it works, ah, so it works, we're not happy with it in its current versions, it needs to be

semi

-

auto

matic, it needs to charge itself, it needs to have that Furze touch.

Okay, so this is the plan. I have another ring with a bunch of soldered studs on it, so let's cut this cone. Unfortunately now this is our enemy because what I want to try to do is mount two linear actuators on each side of the Beryl, Beryl... that's my mom! the barrel and we want to be able to unfold the barrel and take out a potato seed and then push it back to crush it into its own shape and therefore seal it and then step, pose, go! And I hope it sounds like that! So then weld it on the end, weld it against the barrel, make some little sliding mechanisms, maybe make a little bushy thing so the thing slides.

There's a lot going on! I think I'll just do it and you look at it afterwards and say, Oh, that's what he meant, okay, we have a pop-up

cannon

, I just connect the battery. Oh, look at this. Oh, you're proud Furze Yeah, so that's going to move, the potato balls are going to fall out and then when they come back, they're going to squish them up a little bit more, they're going to make a nice seal and they're going to squeeze in there really nice. . That's the plan, but what we need is something like a little potato jumper that comes up here with all the potatoes in the drop-down menu and then gets going and sends us off.

This is a suitable gadget now. but Colin, how does it essentially work? You take out the sugar beet a little bit, you roll the hopper, it holds six shots and it lands on this little plate, it's turned over a little bit, it was going to have a little

semi

-circle, but of course when the barrel is drawn towards it, It kind of cores it again and chips off these little bits here on the side like this. Now, of course, if I add it in a little semicircle. the crumbled pieces of the side wouldn't be there and when the

cannon

recoiled they would just be there.

The next one who comes down will not be in the right place. So I have a vertical part so it can split and then the whole thing can fall down. Now these little bumps here on the side. There, when this arrives and is cored, it is divided into at least two or four pieces and then the whole batch can drip. Now it will work multiple times. I don't know, will it be sealed there? I don't know, maybe we need to make that part a little stronger, because it's bending slightly under the strain, but at the moment it seems like it's just coping.

Now the next big step in the old equation is how you're going to control all this Colin. You have a lot going on here, you have linear actuators, gas valves, piezoelectrics, solenoid synchronizers, all kinds of things! I can't believe I'm saying this. I had to learn some nerdy code! Okay, I had to teach myself how to do this, which is why the video is a week late. So we have an Adreno, we know we have five relays. Now the advantages of this is that they are all programmed and timed, so when you press a button the actuators turn off for a set period of time, the potato will drop and then turn off.

Of course, it will back off for a set period of time until it charges, and then the gas valve will open for exactly as long as we want. Now that's the crucial part, we could have done the inlet and outlet part on the barrel with a toggle switch, but the gas, by being able to time down to the millisecond how long the valve can be open, we can always make sure that we get the perfect amount of gas. So let's see, let's see if all this works because there's a lot to try here. Here we are at Colin Furze's underground shooting range.

I have no idea why I didn't consider doing it here sooner. Well, I have a mattress at the end to stop the mess, let's try it. My mattress has blown up! Oh, there I am without wanting to make a mess! It's ice, it seems that the mattress is called its own mattress. What went well, amount of gas Ok, amount of gas, perfect, I'm about to change the actuators for stronger ones, because they weren't coring the sugar beet well and also the shape, they don't. They just fall like this, they fall to the side and then they just come out a little like this.

So I'm thinking I'll try it with something round like an apple and give a potato a try because I think now that I've seen this, they might work well. Alright, come on, you're going down YES! Returning for the recharge. Look, everything is coming out very well from the bottom, so the cable itself is excellent, yes, there we are, it charges, it recharges, it cleans itself, the Prime itself, it hits, it becomes shiny. Now I just need to get some slightly faster linear actuators. somewhere in between because they are too slow and the others were not powerful enough. boom, let's mount it to the tank and then hopefully we will have the ultimate

homemade

screw tank.

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