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Re: wooden kaboom
« Reply #15 on: October 12, 2013, 10:47:06 am »
I,m 63...and my pal..is going on 80...and we,ve been grinning like a Cheshire cat..ever since the first firing..... ;D
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Re: wooden kaboom
« Reply #16 on: October 12, 2013, 02:40:20 pm »
here,s the link to youtube...Mart...yo u,ll just have to look at the stills

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtzG5DWkT4c&feature=youtu.be
and another....this one,s better as you can see the barrel move with recoil....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmdo4JdGpLk&feature=youtu.be



 




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Re: wooden kaboom
« Reply #17 on: October 13, 2013, 08:24:20 am »
 ;D ;D ;D ;D You make me laugh! Glad you had a good time.
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Re: wooden kaboom
« Reply #18 on: October 13, 2013, 09:23:38 am »
we are now going to make a bigger one...3ft long.....KaaBoom
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Re: wooden kaboom
« Reply #19 on: October 14, 2013, 03:36:45 am »
this is my next project.... ;D...but mine,s will be able to fire...

http://www.cannonsuperstore.com/non_firing_cannons.html

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Re: wooden kaboom
« Reply #20 on: October 14, 2013, 08:55:01 am »
You're going to start scaring the neighbors! ;D
Didn't the British outfit one of their old battleships with wooden guns during WWII? I recall that it fooled the Italians for a couple of years.
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Re: wooden kaboom
« Reply #21 on: October 14, 2013, 09:11:10 am »
your big book is past its sell by date Rauville....time to get the latest edition...

A naval example was the British battleship HMS Centurion. Obsolete and disarmed by World War II, she spent two years in the Mediterannean fitted with wooden guns, to make British naval forces in the area seem stronger than they were ;D
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Re: wooden kaboom
« Reply #22 on: October 14, 2013, 09:31:39 am »
Quote from: bigwull on October 14, 2013, 09:11:10 am
your big book is past its sell by date Rauville....time to get the latest edition...

A naval example was the British battleship HMS Centurion. Obsolete and disarmed by World War II, she spent two years in the Mediterannean fitted with wooden guns, to make British naval forces in the area seem stronger than they were ;D

I actually remembered that from what my Dad told me once. He was on the battleship USS Texas in that area during operations in 1942.
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Re: wooden kaboom
« Reply #23 on: October 14, 2013, 01:29:56 pm »
I,ve just had a look at the Walnut wooden cannon featured in my link...my cannon is around the same size...one big difference...that walnut one..costs $1,795....mine,s cost...a total of £10...or $15....i,m in the wrong business... ;D
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Re: wooden kaboom
« Reply #24 on: October 14, 2013, 02:05:21 pm »
Quote from: Rauville on October 14, 2013, 08:55:01 am
You're going to start scaring the neighbors! ;D
Didn't the British outfit one of their old battleships with wooden guns during WWII? I recall that it fooled the Italians for a couple of years.
Och they got scared months ago and now they,ve moved....noisy boogers they were.... ;D
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