it’s still going hey what’s up guys
welcome back to the workshop today we’re
gonna be showing you how to make an easy
DIY air vortex cannon
that’s right Nate’s the one who’s
prototype this project he’s gonna walk
you through step by step on how you can
make one of these air shooting bazookas
on a budget this toy is called an air
Zuka and it shoots rings of air over 30
feet to make it work you just pull back
on the handle and release the handle on
the plastic are attached to a bungee
cord which gives it force when you fire
it as the air is forced out the front of
the cannon the air in the middle is
moving faster than the air on the sides
which makes it form into a ring the
faster moving air in the center of the
ring has lower pressure and pulls the
ring together to keep it all together as
it travels the purpose of today’s video
is to see if we can replicate this air
vortex gun using easily available and
low-cost materials the materials you
need for this project are pretty simple
and you can find them at your local
hardware store and dollar store I’ve got
some clear plastic tape some black duct
tape a nylon screw and nut two wood
screws three number 12 24 by one-inch
machine screws and matching machine nuts
a clear shower curtain and a wooden
stake so I got this bucket of a dollar
store if you can find a bucket that
doesn’t have a pour spout around the lip
if your bucket has a handle puller cut
it off so it won’t get in your way we
want to cut a circle out of the bottom
of the bucket leaving a rim about an
inch and a half wide all the way around
this bucket happens to have an
indentation just the right size now
we’ve got a hole cut in our bucket let’s
make a handle for it next line the
wooden stake up on the bucket and
measure how long you want to support for
your handle to be
[Music]
once you’ve cut the steak to the right
size place it back next to the bucket
and mark three points near the top
middle and bottom using a drill bit the
same size as your machine screws drill
through the wood and the bucket
[Music]
hold the wooden stake against the piece
you’ve already cut and drilled and
measure how long you want it to be as a
handler
clamping the handle line the support
rail up so that your handle is
approximately in the middle of the first
two holes that you drilled drill two
pilot holes through the support rail
into the handle it’s a good idea to sand
your handle down to make it more
comfortable to hold on to and once
you’ve got that finished it’s time to
find a soda bottle you can use any size
of soda bottle that you have lying
around because we really only need the
top two inches using a knife or a pair
of scissors cut the top off of your soda
bar we’re using a blowtorch to heat up a
small nail if you don’t have a blowtorch
available you can also use a lighter or
the flame from your stove while the head
of the nail is hot melt a small hole
near the neck of the bottle keep the
nail head back up and do the same thing
on the other side by melting the hole
rather than drilling it you get added
strength from the melted plastic
now let’s mark two points on opposite
sides of the bucket almost at the bottom
heat up the nail again and melt holes in
the bucket where we’ve marked it the
same way we did with the soda bottle
with the bucket and the handle prepped
we can move on to making a plastic
diaphragm to force air out of the cannon
on demand I’m using a medium weight
shower liner because it’s a cheap and
durable form of plastic that also lets
you see through your air bazooka as
you’re shooting at your target a cheap
alternative to the shower liner is the
mylar cooler bags that you can often
pick up at the dollar store
they aren’t transparent but they are
tough and low-cost spreader sheet of
plastic out on a flat surface so that
with the bucket in the middle you have
at least a foot of clearance on each
side take your soda bottle and put it
about where the middle of the bucket was
with a marker mark where your soda
bottle is on the sheet of plastic
remove the cap from your soda bottle top
and place the rest of the bottle
underneath the sheet of plastic lined up
with the circle you just marked push the
cap down over the plastic until it can
screw into place on the soda bottle
beneath you can see that the soda bottle
top is now attached to the plastic to
make it easier to work with do a rough
cut of the plastic leaving that one-foot
border around the bucket with your
bucket right side up place the soda top
and the plastic on top of the bucket
with the cap pointing up and press the
soda top and plastic down into the
bucket until they are about halfway to
the bottom making sure that your soda
bottle is centered within your bucket
mark on the plastic one point where it
meets the edge of the bucket measure the
distance from where the soda bottle is
attached to the lines that you have
marked on the plastic measuring that
same distance make additional marks all
the way around the plastic in a circle
connect the dotted lines to get one
continuous circle
if your circle isn’t perfect it
shouldn’t be a problem so if your lines
look crooked here there don’t be too
concerned about it
the next step we’re gonna do is cover
the whole circle that we’ve just drawn
in a layer of packaging tape to start
off place one piece of tape right across
the center of the circle be sure that
the piece you tear off is long enough
that the edges reach just beyond the
circle line up your next piece of tape
with the first four that the edges are
just barely touching continue adding
strips until your whole circle is
covered with a single layer of tape the
packaging tape is very strong and it
doesn’t stretch so it’s a good
reinforcement for your sheet of plastic
once you have a layer tape covering the
whole circle you want to cut around the
line that you’ve drawn now that we have
attached our tape and cut our circle
we’re going to reattach the soda bottle
where it was before now we just need to
make this handle a bit easier to grab on
to we’re going to be using a nylon nut
and bolt to attach our handle metal
hardware would work too but these don’t
weigh as much if your local hardware
store doesn’t carry nylon nuts and bolts
try checking for toilet seat hinge
hardware will also need a bungee cord I
got these bungee cords in a pack of
eight at Home Depot for about six bucks
cut the bungee cord to remove the
plastic ball using a drill bit the same
size as your nylon bolt drill a hole in
your soda cap and plastic you’ll want
the plastic ball from your bungee cord
to fit over the nylon bolt if the hole
is too small use the same drill that
they used on the soda cap to widen it
thread the nylon bolt through the
plastic ball and then through the hole
in the soda cap from the inside of the
bottle top thread the nylon nut onto the
bolt it doesn’t have to be threaded down
all the way but enough that it’s not
going to let go alright guys quick
update we have assembled all the
different pieces that we’re going to
need for our air vortex cannon but first
we’re going to take some spray paint and
decorate it king of random style
alright guys we’ve got everything
painted and ready let’s assemble it into
an air vortex cannon once we have our
bottle top centered inside the bucket
let’s take a piece of black duct tape
and attach the edge of our plastic sheet
to the edge of the bucket after we tape
down the first edge the second part that
we tape should be directly across from
it once you have your first two sides
attached the next two you want to do are
going to be at a 90 degree angle from
those two in between the four corners
that you taped you’re going to want to
do a sort of accordion fold to get the
plastic to lay flat against the bucket
go ahead and tape over any gaps so that
the whole edge of the plastic is secured
to the bucket all right we’ve got our
plastic attach that moves backward and
forward now all we have to do is attach
our handle and make it spring-loaded
drag your bungee cord into one of the
holes in the side of the bucket through
both of the holes in the soda bottle top
and then out through the other bucket
hole now I want to mark the bungee cord
where it’s leaving the bucket but
because my cord is black I can’t very
well draw on it with a marker so I’m
just using a small piece of masking tape
to mark it by marking the bungee cord of
tape we know where to tie the knot to
keep the bungee cord in the right place
stretch your bungee cord out and tie an
overhand knot that overlaps with where
you just marked it with tape place the
handle and support rail along the bucket
where it was when you drill the holes on
the inside of the bucket attach the
three nuts and then use a screw driver
to tighten everything down remove the
excess bungee cord and you’re ready to
go
alright guys there you go your air
vortex cannon is now ready to use let’s
figure out some cool things that you can
do with your new toy great one of the
things that I want to try is make it so
you can actually see the vortex of air
as it leaves the gun here I’ve got a cup
of warm water and some dry ice I’m gonna
drop the dry ice in and try and suck up
some of the cloud and shoot it out as a
ring the dry ice doesn’t make a ring as
well as I was hoping it would the water
vapor that makes up the cloud warms up
so quickly that it dissipates and you
can’t really see where the ring goes
don’t worry guys I have an idea for how
we can make a ring that will last a lot
longer not long ago we showed you how to
make some coloured smoke powder and I’m
gonna light some off and see if I can
get a colored smoke ring to travel a
long distance
[Music]
oh that’s great it’s still going it’s
still visible there you go some cool
things you can do with your air vortex
cannon shooting over targets launching
coloured rings up to 30 feet or maybe
just messing with your friends family
and pets one of the things I thought of
while I was playing with this is how
much fun it might be if we built a giant
scaled up version of this or if we had a
small pocket version look for those in
an upcoming video if you want to buy one
that’s already assembled for you click
the link in the description and you can
get one online there you have it guys
the air blaster cannon big thanks to
Nate for throwing this project together
for us you like what he’s doing give
this video a big thumbs up and leave a
nice comment below thanks for joining us
for this project today and we’ll see you
in the next one talk to you then
[Music]
welcome back to the workshop today we’re
gonna be showing you how to make an easy
DIY air vortex cannon
that’s right Nate’s the one who’s
prototype this project he’s gonna walk
you through step by step on how you can
make one of these air shooting bazookas
on a budget this toy is called an air
Zuka and it shoots rings of air over 30
feet to make it work you just pull back
on the handle and release the handle on
the plastic are attached to a bungee
cord which gives it force when you fire
it as the air is forced out the front of
the cannon the air in the middle is
moving faster than the air on the sides
which makes it form into a ring the
faster moving air in the center of the
ring has lower pressure and pulls the
ring together to keep it all together as
it travels the purpose of today’s video
is to see if we can replicate this air
vortex gun using easily available and
low-cost materials the materials you
need for this project are pretty simple
and you can find them at your local
hardware store and dollar store I’ve got
some clear plastic tape some black duct
tape a nylon screw and nut two wood
screws three number 12 24 by one-inch
machine screws and matching machine nuts
a clear shower curtain and a wooden
stake so I got this bucket of a dollar
store if you can find a bucket that
doesn’t have a pour spout around the lip
if your bucket has a handle puller cut
it off so it won’t get in your way we
want to cut a circle out of the bottom
of the bucket leaving a rim about an
inch and a half wide all the way around
this bucket happens to have an
indentation just the right size now
we’ve got a hole cut in our bucket let’s
make a handle for it next line the
wooden stake up on the bucket and
measure how long you want to support for
your handle to be
[Music]
once you’ve cut the steak to the right
size place it back next to the bucket
and mark three points near the top
middle and bottom using a drill bit the
same size as your machine screws drill
through the wood and the bucket
[Music]
hold the wooden stake against the piece
you’ve already cut and drilled and
measure how long you want it to be as a
handler
clamping the handle line the support
rail up so that your handle is
approximately in the middle of the first
two holes that you drilled drill two
pilot holes through the support rail
into the handle it’s a good idea to sand
your handle down to make it more
comfortable to hold on to and once
you’ve got that finished it’s time to
find a soda bottle you can use any size
of soda bottle that you have lying
around because we really only need the
top two inches using a knife or a pair
of scissors cut the top off of your soda
bar we’re using a blowtorch to heat up a
small nail if you don’t have a blowtorch
available you can also use a lighter or
the flame from your stove while the head
of the nail is hot melt a small hole
near the neck of the bottle keep the
nail head back up and do the same thing
on the other side by melting the hole
rather than drilling it you get added
strength from the melted plastic
now let’s mark two points on opposite
sides of the bucket almost at the bottom
heat up the nail again and melt holes in
the bucket where we’ve marked it the
same way we did with the soda bottle
with the bucket and the handle prepped
we can move on to making a plastic
diaphragm to force air out of the cannon
on demand I’m using a medium weight
shower liner because it’s a cheap and
durable form of plastic that also lets
you see through your air bazooka as
you’re shooting at your target a cheap
alternative to the shower liner is the
mylar cooler bags that you can often
pick up at the dollar store
they aren’t transparent but they are
tough and low-cost spreader sheet of
plastic out on a flat surface so that
with the bucket in the middle you have
at least a foot of clearance on each
side take your soda bottle and put it
about where the middle of the bucket was
with a marker mark where your soda
bottle is on the sheet of plastic
remove the cap from your soda bottle top
and place the rest of the bottle
underneath the sheet of plastic lined up
with the circle you just marked push the
cap down over the plastic until it can
screw into place on the soda bottle
beneath you can see that the soda bottle
top is now attached to the plastic to
make it easier to work with do a rough
cut of the plastic leaving that one-foot
border around the bucket with your
bucket right side up place the soda top
and the plastic on top of the bucket
with the cap pointing up and press the
soda top and plastic down into the
bucket until they are about halfway to
the bottom making sure that your soda
bottle is centered within your bucket
mark on the plastic one point where it
meets the edge of the bucket measure the
distance from where the soda bottle is
attached to the lines that you have
marked on the plastic measuring that
same distance make additional marks all
the way around the plastic in a circle
connect the dotted lines to get one
continuous circle
if your circle isn’t perfect it
shouldn’t be a problem so if your lines
look crooked here there don’t be too
concerned about it
the next step we’re gonna do is cover
the whole circle that we’ve just drawn
in a layer of packaging tape to start
off place one piece of tape right across
the center of the circle be sure that
the piece you tear off is long enough
that the edges reach just beyond the
circle line up your next piece of tape
with the first four that the edges are
just barely touching continue adding
strips until your whole circle is
covered with a single layer of tape the
packaging tape is very strong and it
doesn’t stretch so it’s a good
reinforcement for your sheet of plastic
once you have a layer tape covering the
whole circle you want to cut around the
line that you’ve drawn now that we have
attached our tape and cut our circle
we’re going to reattach the soda bottle
where it was before now we just need to
make this handle a bit easier to grab on
to we’re going to be using a nylon nut
and bolt to attach our handle metal
hardware would work too but these don’t
weigh as much if your local hardware
store doesn’t carry nylon nuts and bolts
try checking for toilet seat hinge
hardware will also need a bungee cord I
got these bungee cords in a pack of
eight at Home Depot for about six bucks
cut the bungee cord to remove the
plastic ball using a drill bit the same
size as your nylon bolt drill a hole in
your soda cap and plastic you’ll want
the plastic ball from your bungee cord
to fit over the nylon bolt if the hole
is too small use the same drill that
they used on the soda cap to widen it
thread the nylon bolt through the
plastic ball and then through the hole
in the soda cap from the inside of the
bottle top thread the nylon nut onto the
bolt it doesn’t have to be threaded down
all the way but enough that it’s not
going to let go alright guys quick
update we have assembled all the
different pieces that we’re going to
need for our air vortex cannon but first
we’re going to take some spray paint and
decorate it king of random style
alright guys we’ve got everything
painted and ready let’s assemble it into
an air vortex cannon once we have our
bottle top centered inside the bucket
let’s take a piece of black duct tape
and attach the edge of our plastic sheet
to the edge of the bucket after we tape
down the first edge the second part that
we tape should be directly across from
it once you have your first two sides
attached the next two you want to do are
going to be at a 90 degree angle from
those two in between the four corners
that you taped you’re going to want to
do a sort of accordion fold to get the
plastic to lay flat against the bucket
go ahead and tape over any gaps so that
the whole edge of the plastic is secured
to the bucket all right we’ve got our
plastic attach that moves backward and
forward now all we have to do is attach
our handle and make it spring-loaded
drag your bungee cord into one of the
holes in the side of the bucket through
both of the holes in the soda bottle top
and then out through the other bucket
hole now I want to mark the bungee cord
where it’s leaving the bucket but
because my cord is black I can’t very
well draw on it with a marker so I’m
just using a small piece of masking tape
to mark it by marking the bungee cord of
tape we know where to tie the knot to
keep the bungee cord in the right place
stretch your bungee cord out and tie an
overhand knot that overlaps with where
you just marked it with tape place the
handle and support rail along the bucket
where it was when you drill the holes on
the inside of the bucket attach the
three nuts and then use a screw driver
to tighten everything down remove the
excess bungee cord and you’re ready to
go
alright guys there you go your air
vortex cannon is now ready to use let’s
figure out some cool things that you can
do with your new toy great one of the
things that I want to try is make it so
you can actually see the vortex of air
as it leaves the gun here I’ve got a cup
of warm water and some dry ice I’m gonna
drop the dry ice in and try and suck up
some of the cloud and shoot it out as a
ring the dry ice doesn’t make a ring as
well as I was hoping it would the water
vapor that makes up the cloud warms up
so quickly that it dissipates and you
can’t really see where the ring goes
don’t worry guys I have an idea for how
we can make a ring that will last a lot
longer not long ago we showed you how to
make some coloured smoke powder and I’m
gonna light some off and see if I can
get a colored smoke ring to travel a
long distance
[Music]
oh that’s great it’s still going it’s
still visible there you go some cool
things you can do with your air vortex
cannon shooting over targets launching
coloured rings up to 30 feet or maybe
just messing with your friends family
and pets one of the things I thought of
while I was playing with this is how
much fun it might be if we built a giant
scaled up version of this or if we had a
small pocket version look for those in
an upcoming video if you want to buy one
that’s already assembled for you click
the link in the description and you can
get one online there you have it guys
the air blaster cannon big thanks to
Nate for throwing this project together
for us you like what he’s doing give
this video a big thumbs up and leave a
nice comment below thanks for joining us
for this project today and we’ll see you
in the next one talk to you then
[Music]
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