[AT] Popular Mechanics magazine - 100 years on Google

[charliehill]

I've got a centrifugal blower that is turned by a 5 HP motor.  The blower 
housing is about the same proportions as a film can.  It's about 6" thick 
and about 4' in diameter.
Now that would sling some serious lead!

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Popular Mechanics magazine - 100 years on Google


> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 3:34 PM, charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Wow,  there is something in one of those mags I've wanted to see again 
>> for a
>> long time.  Maybe I can find it.
>>
>> Back when I was a teenager.....well I might not have even been that old,
>> they had plans to make a BB shot machine gun.  It used a small electric
>> motor that turned a copper tube on an axle inside a metal film can.  The
>> bb's fed into the can through the axle somehow and centrifugal force 
>> slung
>> them around the circumference of the can until they exited through 
>> another
>> piece of copper tubing soldered  on a tangent to a hole in the edge of 
>> the
>> can.
>>
>> Charlie
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>
> I remember those plans well charlie (well, not in fine detail). I
> never made one but I did  take notice.
> I  also have a set of the old Popular Mechanics DIY encyclopedia that
> a grandmother and an aunt bought me when I was pretty young. I still
> love to drag them out and go through them about once a year. I
> acquired a second set and gave them son Scott who had gone through
> mine many times.
> Ahhh... Here is the bb gun:
> http://www.eccentricgenius.ca/centri.htm
>
>
>
> --
> "farmer"
>
> "Good clean muck never hurt nobody!!!"
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> Central Indiana USA
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