FFFFFFF! Guy making 75 mm Pak 40 inside his garage

[Chainsy]

http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/showthread.php?t=639880
Seriously, this gives me the chills of what someone with the right equipment can make in a garage. Yes, it shows the snipers machete thing, but further down near the bottom it shows it, even has a scale to a rifle.
Discuss.

[Heathen]

Not that impressive.

[teh lag]

Not that impressive.

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Yay, connected tubing? It's nothing special yet.


Also why ffff? That's an expression of frusteration fyi.

[Chainsy]

Yes, I am frustrated, people have access to make 75 mm cannons in their garage, what if some insane guy decided to make one and open fire on a fucking orphanage?

[Huero]

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Also why ffff? That's an expression of frusteration fyi.
Your memory fails you sir.

[InnerGoat]

woopie a spud gun!

[Needles]

I liked the amour he made.

[Roostervier]

Yes, I am frustrated, people have access to make 75 mm cannons in their garage, what if some insane guy decided to make one and open fire on a fucking orphanage?
...

You have got to be shitting me.

[teh lag]

Yes, I am frustrated, people have access to make 75 mm cannons in their garage, what if some insane guy decided to make one and open fire on a fucking orphanage?

...Are you serious?

[Needles]

Yes, I am frustrated, people have access to make 75 mm cannons in their garage, what if some insane guy decided to make one and open fire on a fucking orphanage?
I don't know many blacksmiths or "gunsmiths" that want to go around commiting mass homicide.

[FRain]

Yes, I am frustrated, people have access to make 75 mm cannons in their garage, what if some insane guy decided to make one and open fire on a fucking orphanage?


....wat?


E: you three beat me to it.

[Rob Oplawar]

... seriously, a PVC potato gun scares you?

If you want to know something really scary, know that amateur rocket builders routinely build 1-2 foot long rockets that easily reach mach 2 in less than 2 seconds; it's relatively easy to build a machine capable of delivering an obscene amount of energy to a target very quickly. A few groups of amateur rocketeers have built multistage rockets that have delivered payloads into orbit.
Or if you subscribe to the Tyler Durden school of mayhem and destruction, you can create obscene amounts of explosives with readily available materials and deliver them in a van to just about any target.
Or the really really scary thought that the materials and know-how are available to those with the money and the desire to pay for them to build a suitcase nuke, which doesn't even have to get very close to a target to kill tens of thousands of people.

[itszutak]

Lemme dig up that fight club quote about soap. Basically, everything is a weapon in the wrong hands.

Hell, I could make THERMITE (A material that supplies its own oxygen to combustion, making it impossible to put out until it runs out- this stuff is used to WELD UNDERWATER and IN SPACE.) with some easily- obtained materials from a scrapyard.

[FRain]

Yeah, all you need are two sub-critical pieces of uranium and something that can shove it together really fast. Building a nuke isn't hard, but it's hard to find the materials for it.
E: Easily, the resulting radiation and fallout would destroy an entire city.

[Limited]

75mm, thats the diameter of the projectile? Sword is better than the spud gun.

[rossmum]

Yes, I am frustrated, people have access to make 75 mm cannons in their garage, what if some insane guy decided to make one and open fire on a fucking orphanage?
Oh my God are you really that dim or are you just pretending

e/ ps technically it's an anti-tank gun

[thehoodedsmack]

I want to shoot potatoes at an orphanage :awesome:

[legionaire45]

Yeah, all you need are two sub-critical pieces of uranium and something that can shove it together really fast. Building a nuke isn't hard, but it's hard to find the materials for it.
E: Easily, the resulting radiation and fallout would destroy an entire city.
Umm.....ask North Korea and Iran about that....

I think you're underestimating the difficulty involved by just a bit.

Large weapons are generally fairly tough to wield in any kind of combat situation and while it certainly is romantic to think of some crazed blacksmith raining 75mm death upon a city from afar, getting something like that firing isn't a trivial task.

Oh, and f=ma. L2Newton.

Smaller stuff (eg. Thermite grenades, other fun stuff :3) would probably be more effective. Go google around for the Anarchists Cookbook or something.

[Mass]

I thought it was common knowledge that almost everyone could destroy almost anything if they really wanted to...?

[rossmum]

Umm.....ask North Korea and Iran about that....

I think you're underestimating the difficulty involved by just a bit.

Large weapons are generally fairly tough to wield in any kind of combat situation and while it certainly is romantic to think of some crazed blacksmith raining 75mm death upon a city from afar, getting something like that firing isn't a trivial task.

Oh, and f=ma. L2Newton.

Smaller stuff (eg. Thermite grenades, other fun stuff :3) would probably be more effective. Go google around for the Anarchists Cookbook or something.
Not to mention that you'd have a hard (if not impossible) time finding PaK40 ammo, and even if you did, the PaK40 was an anti-tank gun, not a howitzer. At most you'd be able to put a large hole through someone's wall with HE or blow through lighter vehicles with AP. It wouldn't have much effect on a modern tank, even by war's end the PaK40 was somewhat underpowered.

[n00b1n8R]

Yeah, all you need are two sub-critical pieces of ENRICHED uranium and something that can shove it together really fast. Building a nuke isn't hard, but it's hard to find the materials for it.
E: Easily, the resulting radiation and fallout would destroy an entire city.
FTFY with the hard bit.

[Bodzilla]

Yes, I am frustrated, people have access to make 75 mm cannons in their garage, what if some insane guy decided to make one and open fire on a fucking orphanage?
hey,

gotta shoot something, so it might as well be an orphanage.
Amirite Fellas?

[ExAm]

Yes, I am frustrated, people have access to make 75 mm cannons in their garage, what if some insane guy decided to make one and open fire on a fucking orphanage?What you see there is a PVC potato gun in the shape of a PAK-40

[Chainsy]

Can we still fire it at the orphanage though?

[rossmum]

Given it fires potatoes you'll probably miss by a considerable amount unless you put it right against the wall

[Cortexian]

I really hope the thought of that being real never crossed your mind... If it did, perhaps you'll win a Darwin award in your near future.

[legionaire45]

You could make genetically modified potatoes that are perfectly round and use those for ammo.

[FRain]

Or, since he is a metal smith, he could make Pak-40 shaped metal ammo.

[Rob Oplawar]

<_<

[SnaFuBAR]

Or, since he is a metal smith, he could make Pak-40 shaped metal ammo.
because i'm sure he's a ballistics expert that could totally make a round that would achieve proper flight instead of tumbling like a punted football.

[Xetsuei]

because i'm sure he's a ballistics expert that could totally make a round that would achieve proper flight instead of tumbling like a punted football.

I know someone who can punt an almost perfect spiral.

>_>

[legionaire45]

Unless this guy has a fairly accurate lathe/cnc machine/equipment his rounds are going to be incredibly inaccurate. Even small faults can fuck things up really badly when things that large are moving that fast. You can't just hammer a bullet casing and expect it to be completely perfect - not to my limited knowledge anyway. Snaf or someone else probably knows way more about this than me.

If he doesn't have any rifling in that barrel then things are going to be horrifically inaccurate anyway.

[Rob Oplawar]

I was thinking more along the lines of "It's a fucking air cannon." I'd like to see a PVC air cannon launch a 7 kilo metal projectile more than 10 meters. Potatoes are one thing.
If you make your air cannon out of steel with a massive tank and a very nice valve you might be able to launch a pumpkin of that size a considerable distance.
But we don't know if that thing even was an air cannon. It looked to me like it could just as well be just for show. Point is, you're not doing any damage with a plastic cannon.

Point is made, dead, and beaten to a pulp.

[Pooky]

Can we still fire it at the orphanage though?
Duck and cover orphans, he's firing food at us! :( :( :(