oh dang hey what’s up guys welcome back
to the shop I’m here again with Nate
today we’re gonna be showing you how to
take common parts from the hardware
store and build an air-powered t-shirt
cannon let’s jump right in
nate is our newest and finest addition
to the team I brought him on board
because he’s helped me with a lot of
cool projects in the past like the giant
squirt gun that we did that was 4 feet
tall 7 feet wide he also helped with
decorating these t-shirt cannons and we
did four CVX live shooting t-shirts out
into the audience he also worked with
Devin Graham on his Mario Kart in real
life video where he built red turtle
shells and turned them into
remote-control racers that go up to 60
miles an hour and he might show you how
to do that in a future video
now the materials for this project are
very simple you just run down to your
local hardware store and pick up some
ABS fittings we have a two-foot length
of 3-inch ABS a two-foot length of
2-inch ABS an adapter from three inch to
two inch we have two three inch
couplings and a three inch to one and a
half inch adapter if you take a close
look at these adapters you can see
they’ve got a beveled edge on the inside
but if you flip them over that’s where
the tubes slide in and make a tight fit
that’s just gonna make it look a little
more aesthetically pleasing now in
addition to the ABS fittings we’re also
gonna bring in some PVC that’s gonna
work the valve and give us a place to
pressurize it with bike pump these are
the parts that you’re gonna need the
first adapter we’re using is this one
and a half inch to 3/4 inch slip two
threaded adapter that’s gonna fit into
the ABS and from that all the rest of
the parts are threaded we’re using six
3/4 inch threaded closed nipples a 3/4
inch coupling to three-quarter inch 90
degree elbows a 3/4 inch tee and end cap
and a 3/4 inch ball valve purpose of the
end cap is to let us pressurize the
system and if you want to use a bike
pump you can just use Schrader valve
which we picked up at the auto parts
store or you can use a pneumatic Quick
Connect adapter so you can fill it with
an air hose so now that we’ve got all
our pieces collected and put together
there’s two things we need to do first
of all we need to cut our tubes to size
and then we’re gonna glue most of these
pieces together using black ABS cement
and some green ABS 2 PVC glue
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
quick update guys we’ve made our cuts
and here’s where we’re at the 3-inch
tube is now 16 inches long the smaller
tube is 2 inches short and that’s going
to give a little room for our proto
cutty plug to bounce around inside we
also assembled all of the PVC parts
we’ve painted this part of a handle
yellow and the rest of its can be
painted all black just to make it look
good when you’re painting PVC you want
to make sure that you first do a light
dust coat over the whole surface that
will let the next layers of paint bond
to the plastic really well otherwise it
has a tendency to beat up and not be a
smooth coating
[Music]
now while nate is working on painting
the PVC components black I’m gonna be
working on making a proto putty plug
with this one-inch piece of scrap that
we cut off the three inch tubing
essentially we’re just gonna pack this
thing full of proto putty make sure it’s
smooth on the top of the bottom and that
should work perfectly for our prototype
lug
[Music]
we got the handle all painted and the
proto putty is setting that’s going to
be curing for there five or ten minutes
and while it is we’re going to move on
to assembling the body of the cannon now
to assemble the body of the cannon we’re
going to do it in three different parts
we’re gonna take the larger tube and
stick it right down inside of a coupling
first and glue that together we’re gonna
take the smaller tube and the smaller
coupling we’re gonna make sure that the
beveled side is faced down on the table
and then we’re gonna glue the tube it
down inside the center of that pushing
it all the way down flat now we’re going
to take the smaller coupling we’re gonna
set it down the table so the beveled
side is facing up we’re gonna take our
3-inch coupling glue it up and we’re
gonna press it down until everything
goes completely flat against the bottom
before we go any further let’s take the
smaller tube and rub it around in
circles on a piece of sandpaper help
smooth down that edge and make a little
bit better seal when the proto putty
makes contact
[Music]
and of course this we’re just going abs
to abs we’re just using the black ABS
glue for this
[Music]
perfect okay
all these pieces went together
beautifully and now we’ve got the inside
tube the outside team we’re going to
take the inside one we’re going to place
it facedown gonna take the outside one
glue it up and we’re going to come
straight down over top and press that
down so it’s nice and flush on the
bottom as well
[Music]
[Music]
our protocol puck is completely took
this thing out of the ABS ring dusted it
with a little bit of baby powder and
then wiped it all down with a paper
towel to get a nice clean and smooth now
the side that was sitting down on the
countertop is the smoothest edge we want
to take that we want to put it down
inside of the three-inch ABS tubing and
push it all the way down so it makes
contact with a two inch tube inside
that’s going to block off the 2 inch
tube inside and allow us to pressurize
the system so now the only things left
to do are glue on the back attach the
handle and decorate it moment of truth 1
2 3 commit
[Music]
boom there it is
[Music]
so here we have it guys our t-shirt
cannon is fully assembled fully
decorated and pretty much ready for
pressure testing and this is the basic
idea of how it works you hook up
something like an air hose or a bike
pump to this valve here and as long as
this valve is closed it will push the
air up inside this chamber now the proto
putty plug will shift upwards block the
tube on the inside and the rest of the
air wall shimmy around the plug and fill
up this large chamber on the inside when
that pressurized up to 60 to 80 psi it’s
held in place until you release this
valve because the instant this valve
gets turned open any air behind the
proto putty plug rushes out forcing the
plug to slam down to the bottom and all
the remaining air to shove out the
center of the tube this happens very
very quickly and it’s very very powerful
now if you want to go the extra mile
with your decorations you can do
something like what Nate did putting a
crown on this one make this crown I laid
the pattern over some aluminum foil tape
and cut it out with an exacto knife
which I think is crazy because who’d cut
that out with an exacto knife it does
look pretty good though you gotta admit
so this point our t-shirt cans are ready
for pressurizing and you can get really
fancy with how you fold your shirts or
you could just shove them down the
barrel you know pack them down tight
with a stick and then release the handle
and they’re gonna fly anywhere between
40 to 60 psi these things are gonna work
really really well quick shout-out to my
friend been with Nighthawk and light for
being the inspiration behind this
project with his coaxial potato cannon
of which I put a link down in the
description so before we wrap up let’s
take these things outside and show you
what they can do alright so this is what
it looks like set to 20 psi woohoo that
good 10 to 15 feet and this is what it
looks like at 60 oh dang that was
awesome it’s on the roof
it’s on the roof
[Music]
there you go
Wow we caught it nice positioning
[Music]
so there you have it guys that’s how to
take common parts from the hardware
store and turn them into a fully
functional air powered t-shirt cannon
you can use them to shoot t-shirts Nerf
darts or anything else that you can fit
down the barrel hey thanks for joining
us for this project if we look for the
next one talk to you then oh dude that
flies 80 feet 80 feet might still be in
your yard going down over here see you
there
no I don’t see you back there I like
that shirt
and you trust your TV a lot more than I
trust mine something that’s interesting
about this teflon tape is that if you
pull it sideways and stretch crazy
amounts one interesting side note is if
you take one of the little Nerf darts
they fit down the barrel a little bit to
perfectly
[Music]
dang house far
hey guys I want to jump back in for just
a second to invite you to come follow me
on Instagram I’ve got a very active page
where I post daily pictures and stories
of behind the scenes and every day is an
adventure just take five seconds right
now to click the link in the description
to come follow me on instagram at the
king of random I’ll see you there
to the shop I’m here again with Nate
today we’re gonna be showing you how to
take common parts from the hardware
store and build an air-powered t-shirt
cannon let’s jump right in
nate is our newest and finest addition
to the team I brought him on board
because he’s helped me with a lot of
cool projects in the past like the giant
squirt gun that we did that was 4 feet
tall 7 feet wide he also helped with
decorating these t-shirt cannons and we
did four CVX live shooting t-shirts out
into the audience he also worked with
Devin Graham on his Mario Kart in real
life video where he built red turtle
shells and turned them into
remote-control racers that go up to 60
miles an hour and he might show you how
to do that in a future video
now the materials for this project are
very simple you just run down to your
local hardware store and pick up some
ABS fittings we have a two-foot length
of 3-inch ABS a two-foot length of
2-inch ABS an adapter from three inch to
two inch we have two three inch
couplings and a three inch to one and a
half inch adapter if you take a close
look at these adapters you can see
they’ve got a beveled edge on the inside
but if you flip them over that’s where
the tubes slide in and make a tight fit
that’s just gonna make it look a little
more aesthetically pleasing now in
addition to the ABS fittings we’re also
gonna bring in some PVC that’s gonna
work the valve and give us a place to
pressurize it with bike pump these are
the parts that you’re gonna need the
first adapter we’re using is this one
and a half inch to 3/4 inch slip two
threaded adapter that’s gonna fit into
the ABS and from that all the rest of
the parts are threaded we’re using six
3/4 inch threaded closed nipples a 3/4
inch coupling to three-quarter inch 90
degree elbows a 3/4 inch tee and end cap
and a 3/4 inch ball valve purpose of the
end cap is to let us pressurize the
system and if you want to use a bike
pump you can just use Schrader valve
which we picked up at the auto parts
store or you can use a pneumatic Quick
Connect adapter so you can fill it with
an air hose so now that we’ve got all
our pieces collected and put together
there’s two things we need to do first
of all we need to cut our tubes to size
and then we’re gonna glue most of these
pieces together using black ABS cement
and some green ABS 2 PVC glue
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
quick update guys we’ve made our cuts
and here’s where we’re at the 3-inch
tube is now 16 inches long the smaller
tube is 2 inches short and that’s going
to give a little room for our proto
cutty plug to bounce around inside we
also assembled all of the PVC parts
we’ve painted this part of a handle
yellow and the rest of its can be
painted all black just to make it look
good when you’re painting PVC you want
to make sure that you first do a light
dust coat over the whole surface that
will let the next layers of paint bond
to the plastic really well otherwise it
has a tendency to beat up and not be a
smooth coating
[Music]
now while nate is working on painting
the PVC components black I’m gonna be
working on making a proto putty plug
with this one-inch piece of scrap that
we cut off the three inch tubing
essentially we’re just gonna pack this
thing full of proto putty make sure it’s
smooth on the top of the bottom and that
should work perfectly for our prototype
lug
[Music]
we got the handle all painted and the
proto putty is setting that’s going to
be curing for there five or ten minutes
and while it is we’re going to move on
to assembling the body of the cannon now
to assemble the body of the cannon we’re
going to do it in three different parts
we’re gonna take the larger tube and
stick it right down inside of a coupling
first and glue that together we’re gonna
take the smaller tube and the smaller
coupling we’re gonna make sure that the
beveled side is faced down on the table
and then we’re gonna glue the tube it
down inside the center of that pushing
it all the way down flat now we’re going
to take the smaller coupling we’re gonna
set it down the table so the beveled
side is facing up we’re gonna take our
3-inch coupling glue it up and we’re
gonna press it down until everything
goes completely flat against the bottom
before we go any further let’s take the
smaller tube and rub it around in
circles on a piece of sandpaper help
smooth down that edge and make a little
bit better seal when the proto putty
makes contact
[Music]
and of course this we’re just going abs
to abs we’re just using the black ABS
glue for this
[Music]
perfect okay
all these pieces went together
beautifully and now we’ve got the inside
tube the outside team we’re going to
take the inside one we’re going to place
it facedown gonna take the outside one
glue it up and we’re going to come
straight down over top and press that
down so it’s nice and flush on the
bottom as well
[Music]
[Music]
our protocol puck is completely took
this thing out of the ABS ring dusted it
with a little bit of baby powder and
then wiped it all down with a paper
towel to get a nice clean and smooth now
the side that was sitting down on the
countertop is the smoothest edge we want
to take that we want to put it down
inside of the three-inch ABS tubing and
push it all the way down so it makes
contact with a two inch tube inside
that’s going to block off the 2 inch
tube inside and allow us to pressurize
the system so now the only things left
to do are glue on the back attach the
handle and decorate it moment of truth 1
2 3 commit
[Music]
boom there it is
[Music]
so here we have it guys our t-shirt
cannon is fully assembled fully
decorated and pretty much ready for
pressure testing and this is the basic
idea of how it works you hook up
something like an air hose or a bike
pump to this valve here and as long as
this valve is closed it will push the
air up inside this chamber now the proto
putty plug will shift upwards block the
tube on the inside and the rest of the
air wall shimmy around the plug and fill
up this large chamber on the inside when
that pressurized up to 60 to 80 psi it’s
held in place until you release this
valve because the instant this valve
gets turned open any air behind the
proto putty plug rushes out forcing the
plug to slam down to the bottom and all
the remaining air to shove out the
center of the tube this happens very
very quickly and it’s very very powerful
now if you want to go the extra mile
with your decorations you can do
something like what Nate did putting a
crown on this one make this crown I laid
the pattern over some aluminum foil tape
and cut it out with an exacto knife
which I think is crazy because who’d cut
that out with an exacto knife it does
look pretty good though you gotta admit
so this point our t-shirt cans are ready
for pressurizing and you can get really
fancy with how you fold your shirts or
you could just shove them down the
barrel you know pack them down tight
with a stick and then release the handle
and they’re gonna fly anywhere between
40 to 60 psi these things are gonna work
really really well quick shout-out to my
friend been with Nighthawk and light for
being the inspiration behind this
project with his coaxial potato cannon
of which I put a link down in the
description so before we wrap up let’s
take these things outside and show you
what they can do alright so this is what
it looks like set to 20 psi woohoo that
good 10 to 15 feet and this is what it
looks like at 60 oh dang that was
awesome it’s on the roof
it’s on the roof
[Music]
there you go
Wow we caught it nice positioning
[Music]
so there you have it guys that’s how to
take common parts from the hardware
store and turn them into a fully
functional air powered t-shirt cannon
you can use them to shoot t-shirts Nerf
darts or anything else that you can fit
down the barrel hey thanks for joining
us for this project if we look for the
next one talk to you then oh dude that
flies 80 feet 80 feet might still be in
your yard going down over here see you
there
no I don’t see you back there I like
that shirt
and you trust your TV a lot more than I
trust mine something that’s interesting
about this teflon tape is that if you
pull it sideways and stretch crazy
amounts one interesting side note is if
you take one of the little Nerf darts
they fit down the barrel a little bit to
perfectly
[Music]
dang house far
hey guys I want to jump back in for just
a second to invite you to come follow me
on Instagram I’ve got a very active page
where I post daily pictures and stories
of behind the scenes and every day is an
adventure just take five seconds right
now to click the link in the description
to come follow me on instagram at the
king of random I’ll see you there
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