New and looking for plans

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New and looking for plans

Post by pat » Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:06 pm

I am going on a canoe trip this summer and looking for plans or ideas on a foot pedal powered water cannon to soak my son and his fellow scouts
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martianshark
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Re: New and looking for plans

Post by martianshark » Sat Mar 06, 2010 11:56 pm

Welcome to Super Soaker Central! I'm a Boy Scout too!

You know those cheap, foot-powered pumps that you stomp on to pump and are used to blow up air matresses and stuff? I bought one at the dollar store, and it makes a pretty good water gun.

Or maybe you could use a pressurized reservoir water gun that uses a foot bicycle pump.

But what really works good for things like this are Stream Machines. You can draw water right from the lake. Then you just push the water out.

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Re: New and looking for plans

Post by zeda.beta » Sun Mar 07, 2010 12:50 am

Foot power is efficient, but doesn't get much output per energy expended. You could try a set up using a set of foot pedals, a paddle wheel attatched to an axle, and a circular chamber with an output hose and an input hose. What one guy used is a motor pump, but almost everyone uses Stream Machines and the like when we go on canoe trips.
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