Angry Man
07-21-2002, 07:47 PM
Here's the worst idea ever. I'd like some feedback as to whether or not it would work because it seems like it'd be cool if it did and fun to make besides.
Basically, I'd take a "super soaker" squirt gun, which works off the air pressure that builds up in the water tank when you pump air into it and screw a guage into the tank. I'd read at how many psi the air was when the safety valve released air to stop the thing from exploding or something, and set a regulator (probably my cocker's stock reg) to slightly less than that and screw that into the tank and seal it with something so it didn't leak water or air (could be kinda ugly, but oh well.) Then I'd drill an ASA onto the super soaker's handle, hook it up with macroline to the reg screwed into the water tank, and turn the co2 on. If the regulator works how I remember reading it does, it should only supply new air to the tank as the pressure in the tank decreases, meaning that the squirt gun would always be firing at the maximum pressure and would never need to be pumped or explode from too much pressure. You could fire as long as you wanted without pumping more air into the gun, or you could stop whenever you wanted and no more air would go into the tank. Wow, that would be so cool if it worked.
Any responses are welcome as well as tips on pulling this off. Yes, I'm aware that's it's a stupid idea, btw, but it seems to make sense that it would work.
This is roughly what a super soaker looks like....
http://static.epinions.com/images/ext/kifm/92/kifmBoys_PlaysetsSuper_SoakersSuper_Soaker_50-resized180.jpg
Basically, I'd take a "super soaker" squirt gun, which works off the air pressure that builds up in the water tank when you pump air into it and screw a guage into the tank. I'd read at how many psi the air was when the safety valve released air to stop the thing from exploding or something, and set a regulator (probably my cocker's stock reg) to slightly less than that and screw that into the tank and seal it with something so it didn't leak water or air (could be kinda ugly, but oh well.) Then I'd drill an ASA onto the super soaker's handle, hook it up with macroline to the reg screwed into the water tank, and turn the co2 on. If the regulator works how I remember reading it does, it should only supply new air to the tank as the pressure in the tank decreases, meaning that the squirt gun would always be firing at the maximum pressure and would never need to be pumped or explode from too much pressure. You could fire as long as you wanted without pumping more air into the gun, or you could stop whenever you wanted and no more air would go into the tank. Wow, that would be so cool if it worked.
Any responses are welcome as well as tips on pulling this off. Yes, I'm aware that's it's a stupid idea, btw, but it seems to make sense that it would work.
This is roughly what a super soaker looks like....
http://static.epinions.com/images/ext/kifm/92/kifmBoys_PlaysetsSuper_SoakersSuper_Soaker_50-resized180.jpg