Colin Furze World of tanks screw tank project part six quite, quite, quite,
I got it, I know what your thinking Colin we want you to put the most epic potato launcher
on your wonderful screw tank I think so whey up Internet so I've been making a
homemade screw tank there are lots of videos on the channel you should go and check them out and
SUBSCRIBE while your there it's what I do now this thing is awesome it crawls up hills, it
goes through swamps, I love it but it doesn't have a defense system and that's what we need to sort
out. now this project does have a sponsor in World of Tanks if you go and check them out there's a
link in the description if you put in your promo code tantastic you get five hundred gold pieces of
free tank and seven days premium access but after playing that game I kind of realized wait a minute
you suggested you wanted either a flamethrower or a potato launcher you don't find flamethrowers on
tanks but they do launch stuff but they don't just launch one thing no they launch multiple things
so we're gonna make a potato launcher, it's gonna have some sort of reloading system pow,
pow, pow! that is the way forwards
okey-dokey, oh it's done right we're ready it doesn't work it's the most over-engineered potato
launcher the Internet has ever seen so got a gas bottle, got a regulator so we've got constant
pressure, comes round here into a solenoid valve down through the pipe, out over the fan Mixy Mixy
Mixy and then a piezo unit push a button bang out goes potato! right it's going to give it a test
she works
ah alrighty then she works we're not happy with it in its current
guys it needs to be semi-automatic it needs to load itself it needs
to have that little bit of a Furze touch! okay so this is the plan.
I've got another ring with load of bolts welded onto it so we're gonna chop off this cone thing.
As unfortunately now this is our enemy because what I want to try and do is mount two linear
actuators either side of the Beryl, Beryl... that's my Mum! the barrel and we want to be
able to deploy the barrel out a potato nugget drops in and then it pushed back in crush it
into its own shape and therefore seal it in and then pish posh posh off it goes!
and hopefully it'll sound like that! so then weld you on the end, weld you up against the barrel,
make some little sliding mechanisms,
maybe make a little bushy thing for the the thing to slide into. A lot of things going on!
I think I'll just do it and you look at it afterwards and go Oh that's what he meant
okey-dokey we have a deployable barrel,
I just connect the battery Oh check this out . Oh done yourself proud there Furze
Yes so that's gonna move out, potato pellets gonna drop down and then when it comes back,
it will kind of crush it a bit more, and it will form a nice seal and it
will squeeze itself in there nicely. That is the plan but what we need, need like a little potato
hopper thing coming up here with all the potatoes into drop down and then off the go and get fired
This is a right contraption now. but Colin how is it essentially working:?
you core a bit out at the sugar beet, you roll down that the hopper,
it'll hold six shots and it lands on this little plate thing, it's little upturned,
I was gonna have a little semi-circle but of course when the barrel gets pulled towards it,
it kind of cores it again and flakes these little bits off the side here
like that. now of course if I add it in a little semi-circle thing.
the flaked bits off the side wouldn't be in there and when the barrel goes back they'd just be sat
in there. the next one have come down it won't be in the right place. so I've got an upright bit,
so it can split it off and then it can all just fall out the way. now these little lumps on the
side here. there so when this comes and gets cored it splits that into at least two or four
bits then whole lot can just dribble out. now is it gonna work multiple times. I don't know
is it gonna seal up against there? I don't know might have to make that bit a little bit stronger,
because it's bending slightly under the strain but at the moment it seems to be just about coping.
now the next big step in the old equation is how you're gonna control all this Colin.
you've got a lot going on here, you've got linear actuators, gas valves, piezo, solenoids timings,
all sorts of things! can't believe I'm saying this, I've had to learn some nerd code!
okay I've had to teach myself how to do this hence why the video is a week late. so got an Adreno we
know we've got five relays now the advantages of this is they're all programmed and timed so
push of one button, the actuators go out for a set amount of time, the potato will drop in and then
of course it will pull back for a set amount of time until it's loaded up, and then the gas valve
opens exactly for the amount of time we want. now that is the crucial bit, we could have done the
in-out bit at the barrel with a toggle switch, but the gas, by being able to time down to the
millisecond how long that valve can be open we can always make sure that we get the perfect
amount of gas in. so let's see let's go and see if all this works because there's a lot to test here
Here we are in the Colin Furze underground firing range. no idea why I didn't consider
doing it down here before. right got a mattress down the end there to stop the mess, lets have
a go It's blew a whole through my mattress! oh there's me not wanting to make mess!
it's the ice appear the mattress is called its own mattress thing out okay
gas amount Ok gas amount, perfect about to change the actuators for some stronger ones
because they weren't quite coring the sugar beet properly and also the shape,
they don't just drop down like that, they kind of drop down to the side and then they just cored a
bit out like that. so I'm thinking we'll actually try it with something round like an apple and
we'll give a potato a shot cuz I think now I've seen this they might actually work all right.
All right come on, you're gonna drop down
YES! coming back for the reload.
Look at that its all dropping out the bottom nicely so its cord itself
excellent yes there we are, loads, reloads itself, clears itself out,
Prime's itself, smack bang off it goes brilliant.
now right I just need to get some slightly faster linear actuators.
somewhere in the middle cuz they're too slow the other ones weren't powerful enough. boom let's get
it mounted on the tank and then we hopefully should have the ultimate homemade screw tank.
now don't forget the sponsor World of Tanks they've made all this happen they's you know
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stuff I'll see you in the next video oh yeah I think you got yourself I nice potato gun!
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