Gun update 2

Hey guys (i haven't any idea if theres anyone out there, but let's pretend you exist),

good news and bad. for about 20 minutes the super soaker worked perfectly. I charged it last night and it fired a good 30 feet perfectly. emptied a tank, refilled it and it continued to impress. i took the thing apart to understand exactly how it works and its even better than i had hoped! the nozzle valve is unimportant because i will be shooting above the tank (ie gravity won't want to force water out when i'm not ready for it) so i can get rid of that. the tank can be any size i want and doesn't need to be pressurized at all. which is great great news (because i was envisioning needing a holding and a seperate pressurizing tank). i disassembled the gun and made it work outside of its casing to ensure i could actually use the parts for my own purposes. that worked too.

the problem came when i tried to unattach the hosing from the pump (to be able to use a longer hose for my use). the hose was glued onto the pump on one side and glued onto the superfluous nozzle on the other. so i tried to cut it and rip it off. but the piece of junk thing broke in hardly a minute. i can't replace it because its a toy and i don't know the part number or maker. so i uttered a couple of explicatives and set aboout trying to glue it back together. in the mean time, i've ordered 2 more (which irks me, but my dad just made the point that the pump in the gun prolly costs twice or three times as much sold seperately than the entire gun, so i'm still saving money) the second soaker comes in tomorrow and the third on friday.

while letting the glue dry, i went and picked out some of the RC equipment. brings back great memories of my sci proj. its a shame i have to take apart the car to use the equipment for the boat. o well. its not doing any good getting dusty on my shelf.

back to the shop!