Shootin' Blanks

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Posted by Cory R. "Click" Starr / CSE Special Engineering on Saturday, 11 April 1998, at 11:25 p.m.

I believe you are referring to a device known as a MAPP gas gun. MAPP gas is a mixture of propane and acetylene that you can get from Bernzomatic at you local Home Center (do you have these where you live?).

The guns are somewhat complicated and costly to make, if you are on a tight budget it may not be a wise choice. Of important note, to operate, these guns require hoses that run to the MAPP gas and Oxygen cylinders - they are not very portable. Mostly these guns are used on vehicles, where it is easy to hide the support equipment.

Anyway, what happens is that an electronic timer circuit (set to the appropriate rate of fire) cycles two solenoid valves - one for the MAPP gas and one for the oxygen. It also fires a spark plug at the same time. The gas enters the barrel of the gun from the breach, mixes in the chamber, and is ignited by the spark. The gas ignites with a loud pop and throws a quick burst of flame out of the barrel. You have to play around with the mixtures to get the gasses to ignite, and this takes a lot of time sometimes!

The guns are great because they are relatively harmless - and best of all since they aren't real guns anyway, you don't need to have any special license to operate them. All the guns I've seen are cast outr of aluminum to resemble the real weapon - they are made specifically to be MAPP gas guns.

Click "Mr. Pistol" Starr

Posted by W. Scott Lewis on Monday, 13 April 1998, at 1:17 a.m., in response to Re: Looking for high flash movie blanks., posted by Cory R. "Click" Starr / CSE Special Engineering on Monday, 13 April 1998, at 12:15 a.m.

Looking for .45, .357 magnum or .38 special, .22 long rifle, 12 guage, and 20 guage. Let me know what you can do. I'd sure appreciate it.

Posted by Cory R. "Click" Starr / CSE Special Engineering on Monday, 13 April 1998, at 10:58 a.m., in response to Re: Looking for high flash movie blanks., posted by W. Scott Lewis on Monday, 13 April 1998, at 1:17 a.m.

All of those calibers area available in Full Flash blanks. Blanks are sold in boxes of 50, except for shotgun blanks which are sold in boxes of 25.

After shipping and ORM-D handling fees you can expect to pay about $1 per blank.

E-mail me with your info.

Click