NICE WORK... I watched all your episodes and was surprised with the care you take in accuracy and providing details for the watchers! .....been wanting to make a cannon for quite some time now but just wish we had the scrap yards like you... here in eastern Ohio the scrap yards are EXTREMELY scandalous. They take your scrap metals for how ever many cents per pound but then refuse to sell anything to the public even when making them a generous offer to pay more for the metals than what they paid for it per pound. From what I can gather, the scrap yards contracted with bigger businesses who periodically collect the brass, aluminum, stainless steel, angle iron, round and flat stock, I & H beam, etc from them. This now also helps the businesses who sell these products new and can charge you a HEFTY price since you can't get it anywhere else.
Actually built one in high school machine shop back in the 70's that fired....built the carriage in wood shop. Try that today, or even in a trade school class. Also built a steel one that could use smokeless powder.
A friend and I, (with the metal shop teacher's help) built a .22 "zip gun." It did work. Kind of a pen gun. Had a 3 inch barrel, from one of his (my friend) father's guns. I also made a "jimmy" to open some lockers on the school. Proved it worked, and never used it again. steve
I love the project. It would also be really interesting to watch if you save the chips and cast a brass cannonball to fit with material from the barrel.
When i built mine I went to a steel supplier and bought a 26 inch piece of DOM seamless tubing. I had a machine shop tap one end of it and I screwed a grade 8 bolt in 4 inches and cut what was left sticking out of the barrel flush with the barrel. I then welded the bolt and the barrel together. I cut a oxygen bottle cap in half and used the round end for a cap on the closed end on the barrel. I also had the machine shop taper 13 inches of the barrel for the proper look. I shoot golf balls in it with 200 grains of black powder.
Hooleeey cow. My little 1/2 inch bore cannon just became a projectile for your cannon. First guy doesn't have a chance. Oh well I guess I might as well come along for the ride because I like things like this.
Great job Jim ! Cut some patches out of old tshirts and lube them with a mix of beeswax, olive oil, and crisco. Should make a good gas seal. Thanks for sharing !
I had to watch this video again it is so fantastic💥👍👍 i like my cannon as well its also a brass barrel smooth bore 3\8ths of a inch diameter I D i have a a dial pin gage as well and use the centers on each end with gage checks out to about .0015 runout barrel is a foot long i use 40 grains 2fg pyrodex maximum for safety and 3\8 OD steel balls shoots nice and reliable and i clean it with never dull like i used to polish my brass when I was in the usn when Ronald Reagan was commander in chief😎👍👍God bless y'all and happy veterans day ahead of time🚀🎆🎇💥👍👍
That's cool! Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. -ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
I've wanted to build a small cannon for years but finding suitable, affordable material for the barrel has been the biggest roadblock. Love brass but $$$. Just want it for a lawn ornament but it would be nice if the barrel would be of a suitable material for firing.
4:28 - And that boys and girls is how thoracic and abdominal drill injuries occur in the workplace, in case you were wondering how people end up drilling their gizzards out when they occasionally are seen in the ER.
Pretty sure rifling would make a golf ball curve in flight. When you don't hit a golf ball square and it has spin, the ball will cut and curve off from where you hit it.
One little mistake , black powder blows up faster then , the cellulose flake powders . The pressure is the expansion rates when compressed. Pour a strip of each and life them the black powder will go sip and done but the modern strip will slow burn to the end much slower.
Actually the dimples on a golf ball are not to make it go straight. Its to make it curve toward the retreating side of the spin. The golf club puts a spin on the ball with the front of the ball rising and the back of the ball falling causing a curve toward the sky,...i.e. it makes lift by "scooping" air from the front of the ball up and over the ball's top like a wing. Its also how a pitcher curves or sinkers a baseball (the stitches help a little). A cannon ball will spin differently on every exit from your barrel depending which side/top/bottom it hits last before exit. paintball barrels have have a slight joggle in the barrel itself which causes a predictable contact point on exit and therefore a predictable spin. Without a predictable spin you are better off with a smooth ball as lack of dimples will reduce (but not eliminate) the lift generated by spin due to smooth surface "scoops" less. This is why we invented non-spherical projectiles and rifling. Either way love you channel and this project so far.
don't the dimples reduce the surface tension of the air passing over the ball thereby allowing the ball to fly further? The direction of spin would then dictate an arc due to pressure differential on opposite sides of the ball.@X-Ray Crystallography
Trunions should be bore diameter and the barrel should be on a carriage that will allow recoil to send the unit to the rear. Without proper recoil, the unit will be torn up. Golf ball will not generate much recoil at all. The fun of shooting a lead ball and the sound of the explosion is something. Instead of wadding, try sawdust. You should have made the bore golf ball diameter. They don't vary in diameter. Smoothbore accuracy is only 65 yards.
Both wrong dimples make for lesser wind resistance. so it can go farther and not slow down so much, perfect for a Cannon but for a different reason. and thats a fact worth knowing if you want to save fuel in your car. ;)
"All the pressure has to go somewhere." With black powder there is virtually no pressure unless pushing a projectile over 6 pounds. This is why cast iron and bronze was used long ago....little pressure. Smokeless powder however will easily generate 100,000 pounds per square inch. This is why most machine shops will ask you to leave if you inquire about them boring a cannon for you. Liability for all the people that don't know the difference between black powder and smokeless and are tragically headed for an accident.
Hey Jim; this is Off Topic but tried finding an email address but couldn't; asked 20 Questions Friday Night at Weasel Boy about Noob Tig machines; and got your Autograph on Saturday (thanks 👍👍😂😂). Machines quoted for my project are Precision Tig 225 and Power Mig 210 MP;' just looking for 'real world' feedback. Thanks, DLS
Both are excellent. I would recommend the SW 200 over the 225. Only because it is smaller, lightweight, and is a asymmetric TIG welder, The 225 is an older technology machine. Both are solid! the 225 is the way to go for TIG. The 210 is awesome also. Doritefab@gmail.com
Dimples on a golf ball create a thin turbulent boundary layer of air that clings to theball's surface. This allows the smoothly flowing air to follow the ball's surface a little farther around the back side of the ball, thereby decreasing the size of the wake. ...Dimples also affect lift. Scientific American Jan 5, 2004
Be careful with those golf ball, they can expand and wedge in the barrel and could cause an explosion, that is what I've been told many times. Not sure how much truth to it . I've built a lot of small cannons, my biggest was 3 in.dia. with 1 1/4 in bore. But all the old timers I hung around with always said never shoot golf balls,they will expand and blow it up.
Not exactly, the plural of cannon is cannons, as far as I know. It was cannons in the beginning, Shakespeare used cannon as the plural, then it switched back to cannons. I believe both are correct, I've always heard cannons though.
I'm only here for the grammar issue in the title. It's "a historic" not "an historic." The only time one should use "an" before a word beginning with the letter H is if the H is silent, such as "an honor." You wouldn't say "I'm taking an history class" would you?
Great quick weekend build. I built a couple of them last weekend
Never thought i would end up thoroughly enjoying a brass conon being made. Thanks for the video.
NICE WORK... I watched all your episodes and was surprised with the care you take in accuracy and providing details for the watchers!
.....been wanting to make a cannon for quite some time now but just wish we had the scrap yards like you... here in eastern Ohio the scrap yards are EXTREMELY scandalous. They take your scrap metals for how ever many cents per pound but then refuse to sell anything to the public even when making them a generous offer to pay more for the metals than what they paid for it per pound. From what I can gather, the scrap yards contracted with bigger businesses who periodically collect the brass, aluminum, stainless steel, angle iron, round and flat stock, I & H beam, etc from them. This now also helps the businesses who sell these products new and can charge you a HEFTY price since you can't get it anywhere else.
Actually built one in high school machine shop back in the 70's that fired....built the carriage in wood shop.
Try that today, or even in a trade school class. Also built a steel one that could use smokeless powder.
A friend and I, (with the metal shop teacher's help)
built a .22 "zip gun." It did work. Kind of a pen gun.
Had a 3 inch barrel, from one of his (my friend)
father's guns.
I also made a "jimmy" to open some lockers
on the school. Proved it worked, and never
used it again.
steve
very cool Jim. it was good to see you at the Saunders Open house.
I laughed out lour at the 30 second mark. This earns you a like.
Super awesome Jim , I am going to watch this whole build man .. Thumbs up !!
Thanks!
I'm another Diresta sub... Great channel, I look forward to more on the cannon
Thanks for the sub!
Going to be a nice cannon, and looks like it works well.
Wish you could have been there with us to see it go BOOM! You always make us laugh....
That is one gorgeous chunk of brass Jim!
Looks like a great start :)
Thanks for watching.
Great video, I make cannons, and have for years, but I have never made a brass cannon. Nice JOB! Yes, Thumbs up, I Subscribed a week or two ago.
Thanks for the sub! Glad you liked it.
looks like a fun project! following along.
Thanks, Emma!
I love the project. It would also be really interesting to watch if you save the chips and cast a brass cannonball to fit with material from the barrel.
The chips are in a 5 gallon bucket, waiting....
Great video, Jim! It was great meeting you this weekend. Keep up the great work!
When i built mine I went to a steel supplier and bought a 26 inch piece of DOM seamless tubing. I had a machine shop tap one end of it and I screwed a grade 8 bolt in 4 inches and cut what was left sticking out of the barrel flush with the barrel. I then welded the bolt and the barrel together. I cut a oxygen bottle cap in half and used the round end for a cap on the closed end on the barrel. I also had the machine shop taper 13 inches of the barrel for the proper look. I shoot golf balls in it with 200 grains of black powder.
Hooleeey cow. My little 1/2 inch bore cannon just became a projectile for your cannon. First guy doesn't have a chance. Oh well I guess I might as well come along for the ride because I like things like this.
Big or small, I like 'em all! lol
We love this video and we enjoyed the target busting to pieces WTG
Oh Man JIm, That is awesome....
Great job Jim ! Cut some patches out of old tshirts and lube them with a mix of beeswax, olive oil, and crisco. Should make a good gas seal. Thanks for sharing !
Flannel works best.
Muy interesante muy bonito el trabajo y sobre todo en el torno lo felicito.
Actually, the golf ball dimples are to make it fly further. Nice cannon.
The part at the end is called the "Cascabel". Love the video!
Thanks for the info.
Very nice , I think I will build one also, probably a little smaller though.
Go big or go home...lol
Good video Jim. It was nice talking to you at Johns open house. I hope you had a good trip home.
As always Mike, great to spend time with you!
Man, that golf ball packed a lot of explosive. 🙂🙂
Boom!
THANK YOU...for sharing.
Do you ever do forging work
Where would I be able to find a plan for making a cannon for my grade 12 machine shop. We have to draw out our plan for the cannon
The dimples on a golf ball break up laminar air flow reducing friction. Turbulent air causes less friction.
Great job love your work do you have a video of your signal cannon thanks for sharing keep it up
I had to watch this video again it is so fantastic💥👍👍 i like my cannon as well its also a brass barrel smooth bore 3\8ths of a inch diameter I D i have a a dial pin gage as well and use the centers on each end with gage checks out to about .0015 runout barrel is a foot long i use 40 grains 2fg pyrodex maximum for safety and 3\8 OD steel balls shoots nice and reliable and i clean it with never dull like i used to polish my brass when I was in the usn when Ronald Reagan was commander in chief😎👍👍God bless y'all and happy veterans day ahead of time🚀🎆🎇💥👍👍
and so what did you pay for that 105 lb piece of brass round stock?
cool project ..
That's cool!
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
-ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45319/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade
Too late I have already seen this project finished. :-) It looked great!
Thanks, Brian!
I've wanted to build a small cannon for years but finding suitable, affordable material for the barrel has been the biggest roadblock. Love brass but $$$.
Just want it for a lawn ornament but it would be nice if the barrel would be of a suitable material for firing.
What type of brass did you use ?
4:28 - And that boys and girls is how thoracic and abdominal drill injuries occur in the workplace, in case you were wondering how people end up drilling their gizzards out when they occasionally are seen in the ER.
Hey Big Jim, where did you find that brass? Keep up the good work and videos!
fireman up!!!
BOOMSKIE!
Pretty sure rifling would make a golf ball curve in flight. When you don't hit a golf ball square and it has spin, the ball will cut and curve off from where you hit it.
subscribed, good video, who dont love a cannon build :)
What material he used ? Bronze ?
Naval Brass
DoRite Fabrication bronze is better or worse for cannon ? Thank you !
@@DoRiteFabrication
All I get from my navel is LINT !
On the brighter side though, I've heard that belly lint is worth
$ 2.00 a pound. 🤣
One little mistake , black powder blows up faster then , the cellulose flake powders . The pressure is the expansion rates when compressed. Pour a strip of each and life them the black powder will go sip and done but the modern strip will slow burn to the end much slower.
Great job Big Jim! Where can I find a piece of brass like that? Ron Bianca
Brass is "grabby" and you need a negative rake on the cutting face.
dont underestimate that babie jim iv see a few old machinest tossing balls 3/4 of a mile
I have not been able to recover a single golf ball yet, I have not been able (due to time) figure out the range yet.
they were shooting at the side of a rock cliff :)
You'll have to weigh the barrel when you're done machining, I'd be curious to see how much was machined off!
Guessing, 75 lbs
Actually the dimples on a golf ball are not to make it go straight. Its to make it curve toward the retreating side of the spin. The golf club puts a spin on the ball with the front of the ball rising and the back of the ball falling causing a curve toward the sky,...i.e. it makes lift by "scooping" air from the front of the ball up and over the ball's top like a wing. Its also how a pitcher curves or sinkers a baseball (the stitches help a little). A cannon ball will spin differently on every exit from your barrel depending which side/top/bottom it hits last before exit. paintball barrels have have a slight joggle in the barrel itself which causes a predictable contact point on exit and therefore a predictable spin. Without a predictable spin you are better off with a smooth ball as lack of dimples will reduce (but not eliminate) the lift generated by spin due to smooth surface "scoops" less. This is why we invented non-spherical projectiles and rifling. Either way love you channel and this project so far.
don't the dimples reduce the surface tension of the air passing over the ball thereby allowing the ball to fly further? The direction of spin would then dictate an arc due to pressure differential on opposite sides of the ball.@X-Ray Crystallography
Thanks for sharing
Trunions should be bore diameter and the barrel should be on a carriage that will allow recoil to send the unit to the rear. Without proper recoil, the unit will be torn up. Golf ball will not generate much recoil at all. The fun of shooting a lead ball and the sound of the explosion is something. Instead of wadding, try sawdust. You should have made the bore golf ball diameter. They don't vary in diameter. Smoothbore accuracy is only 65 yards.
all I can say is"BOOM"!
Boomski!
Both wrong dimples make for lesser wind resistance. so it can go farther and not slow down so much, perfect for a Cannon but for a different reason. and thats a fact worth knowing if you want to save fuel in your car. ;)
Enjoyed JIm, It was nice seeing this finished at Johns open house.
ATB, Robin
Drill bits are for drilling...Boring bars are for boring holes with precise diameters. That said, nice work.
With one exception, my Lathe does not have enough carriage travel to get that job done, Sometimes you have to improvise with what you have.
"All the pressure has to go somewhere." With black powder there is virtually no pressure unless pushing a projectile over 6 pounds. This is why cast iron and bronze was used long ago....little pressure. Smokeless powder however will easily generate 100,000 pounds per square inch. This is why most machine shops will ask you to leave if you inquire about them boring a cannon for you. Liability for all the people that don't know the difference between black powder and smokeless and are tragically headed for an accident.
I want to build one that shoots billiard balls.
Black powder dose not burn slower, it burns much faster then smokeless powder.
Sure about that?
@@dirtrusty7228 yea i mean the reason its smokeless is because it has better access to oxygen and therefor can burn faster and stronger isnt it?
Jim your package went out today. If you show this please mention R.R 0n the engraving thanks
I will, not sure when I'll film next...
Nice Jim :-)
Thank you!
Hey Jim; this is Off Topic but tried finding an email address but couldn't; asked 20 Questions Friday Night at Weasel Boy about Noob Tig machines; and got your Autograph on Saturday (thanks 👍👍😂😂). Machines quoted for my project are Precision Tig 225 and Power Mig 210 MP;' just looking for 'real world' feedback. Thanks, DLS
Both are excellent. I would recommend the SW 200 over the 225. Only because it is smaller, lightweight, and is a asymmetric TIG welder, The 225 is an older technology machine. Both are solid! the 225 is the way to go for TIG. The 210 is awesome also. Doritefab@gmail.com
Mantap
Take mm metric system to messure. Much easier. 20 mm min 1 mm = 19. 10% from 100 = 10
Dimples on a golf ball create a thin turbulent boundary layer of air that clings to theball's surface. This allows the smoothly flowing air to follow the ball's surface a little farther around the back side of the ball, thereby decreasing the size of the wake. ...Dimples also affect lift. Scientific American Jan 5, 2004
I didn't realize that cannon was that big.
I've heard that before!:)
Yap.....!!!!! A hole in one on a par 12 run... lol FORE...!!!
I'm hoping to hit the 18th green from the first hole tee box!
Hou would you call this, Big Birdy, Big Eagle, Dreamliner... Or just Big Cheat....??? lol
I call the cannon Fat Albert, as far as the rest, I call it FUN!
actually black powder burns much faster than smokeless, but smokeless does yield higher pressures, generally.
Be careful with those golf ball, they can expand and wedge in the barrel and could cause an explosion, that is what I've been told many times. Not sure how much truth to it . I've built a lot of small cannons, my biggest was 3 in.dia. with 1 1/4 in bore. But all the old timers I hung around with always said never shoot golf balls,they will expand and blow it up.
bigger is better....thats a firefighter thing...girs side by side with breaking things
Damn straight! LOL
The music in the background is a bit of a distraction . Other than that it is a very nice video .
Sir, I get all riled up when you say ‘cannons’. Plural of cannon be cannon, yes?
Not exactly, the plural of cannon is cannons, as far as I know. It was cannons in the beginning, Shakespeare used cannon as the plural, then it switched back to cannons. I believe both are correct, I've always heard cannons though.
...Dimples on a golf ball gives it lift, not to go straight.
Nice start on the build, enjoyed the video....I am up for adoption if you want an older son....your a great dad!
0:21 You spoiled the fucking ending
1"23/32? You got to be joking right? SI for the win!!
You put "an" in front of a word starting with a vowel not a consonant!
I hate spell Ck it's lite and zip
I'm only here for the grammar issue in the title. It's "a historic" not "an historic." The only time one should use "an" before a word beginning with the letter H is if the H is silent, such as "an honor." You wouldn't say "I'm taking an history class" would you?
This is boring...
pound, inch, feet. closing the video... too much neanderthal
Watch from 3:46