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Sawdust Cannon (1:48)

submitted by Stingray

1 decade 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago

Describes the basic principles of creating a sawdust cannon. From the user desc:

My brother has been working on a way to make large explosions without the inherit danger of real explosives. Sawdust ignites well when mixed with the right ratio of air, so he devised this contraption. I hope to have an example of this at night- which is a truly spectacular effect! The intent of this is for special effects in a low-budget war film I'm scheming to start soon... err, someday.

Update: This video is featured in the MythBusters' "Viral Videos" episode, aired on Sept. 3, '08.

Panasonic HVX-200, 1080i, 60fps

6 Comments

13439 says...

Some people have too much time on their hands.

And I'm damn glad they do!

Upvoted, and I want one.

SaNdMaN says...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRw4ZRqmxOc&fmt=18

Krupo

says...

Wow, kind super-close to the surrounding trees, given the size of the flame, eh? Damn.

Stingray

says...

>> ^SaNdMaN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRw4ZRqmxOc&fmt=18

http://www.videosift.com/video/Mythbusters-Non-Dairy-Creamer-Cannon-2-37

Duckman33

says...

Timeshift?

Very cool!

CrushBug

says...

When helping my uncles build their cabins at the lake, we used to throw sawdust on the fire and watch the *whooomp* on a much smaller and safer scale.