Restoration of 60 Year Old Gas Cannon - Will it Still Fire? 

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Look online there is still a Conestoga facility in Allentown Pennsylvania

@@charlessteinmetz802 they make aluminum cased ones now to there really cool

Mine wouldn't let me have the BB gun ("you'll shoot your eye out" of course) but they gave med one of these when I was 7 years old. Go figure. And like all good American boys, I did the first thing every kid does when recieving one: Figured out what fit in the barrel and made a good bullet for shooting down the plastic army men .... that every good American kid also had back in those days.

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and good lookin'! Thanks for watching.

You were alive back then

@@ArtandCraft2016 Very funny, you young whipper-snapper!

@@ArtandCraft2016 if what C Morales is telling the truth, they would be around 50-70 years old rn

how about tungsten balls for projectiles and c4 for the propellent for more force and power

@@harrygregory6227 A good suggestion, but those items were scarce in the 1960s.

That they found in a rice paddy!

So tired of vice restorations

Yes, I used vice instead of vise. Then I restored it to perfection. HA.

Yet you still watched it. HMMMMMMM

Imagine moaning about watching something you literally had a choice to watch.

If it's the igniter that's the issue. You can actually order a new one. Just look up Bangsite cannon. The company is still in business. Has been since 1912.

I used firecrackers and fired cut off pieces of candles.

actually you can STILL buy them on line as well as the powder to work them!

I got lucky when I found mine in my mom's house as we were clearing stuff out to have it demolished. I got it the day before they pushed it over with an excavator. I was surprised with all the other water damage the cannon was almost pristine.

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Nice! Yeah I've had a lot of fun with it.

My brothers and I were helping clean out our mother’s garage. As we found stuff from our childhood, I lamented that the only thing I really wished I still had was my Big Bang Cannon that I bought in about 1967. Low in behold, my brother says “you’ll never believe what I found” as he held up my cannon. With a few parts from Conestoga, I’m back in business terrorizing the neighborhood! Have fun with yours!

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Yes! My next video, should be up on Friday, is a Conestoga Big Bang Tank. They haven't made them for a long long time. Stay tuned.

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Thank you!

Well, you're not wrong, however that center was ruined long before I got it. It's my "do not use as a center" center. Came with the lathe. I keep it for jobs like this.

Forget the restoration. I'm salivating over the tools!

Atomic_Bombs lol

nothing nuts about that at at all. too bad the kids today won't have those kinds of memories. All they will remember is helicopter parents.

I never had fun like that when I was a kid. Taking notes ...

We did something similar except we used soda cans, tennis balls, and lighter fluid. Coated the inside with lighter fluid, sun it around a couple of time to coat the lining, dropped the ball inside and touched it odd via a hole in the bottom most can. Unfortunately, cans are now made differently which negates this.

@@patrickdonaghy2070 I used to do something similar with tennis balls and pringles cans. We'd put anything we could find that was combustable into the can; Perfume, cooking spray, ground up match heads, maybe a combination of the like... Then jam a tennis ball in as far as we could, poke a hole and use a match as the fuse... Sometimes it was anticlimatic, sometimes we got grounded for breaking windows. Good times.

We used hair spray in our tennis ball mortars. LOL.

I just found out about these. Missed out as a kid. Made up for it yesterday though!

As kid i went to the local blacksmith and sweeped the floor there for the fuel. He used it to make the gas for his torches.

Yeah, this turned out to be WAY more fun that I thought it would be! Thanks for watching.

How much do you want for it

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Good job thanks for showing it

NOW, KIDS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO OWN A CAP GUN!

Bextar636 yes you are

Tell me about it. Back in the day you could buy your kids the "Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab" science toy, Complete with a few different types of uranium ore and a Geiger counter !!!! Nowadays we live in a world where toys for teenagers can't even have small parts in case they choke themselves to death on them. How I see it, If you're too stupid to understand that putting the mussel of a firing toy canon in your mouth and setting it off could kill you, Guess what, The gene pool's better off without you. That's called "Natural selection in action".......... Don't let the coffin lid hit you in the ass on your way out. :)

Correct. I have an old toy tank from the soviet union. rotating turret, all metal, rotating tracks.. Now toys kids gets are cheap plastic pieces of crap.

@uncletigger I used powdered safety (brown) match heads, sulphur (evaporated the water out of dead battery acid) & soot (carbon) to make gunpowder for the cannon I made as a teenager in the 1970's. Worked fine. Generation X kids were way smarter than todays Millennials & Generation Z kids. We knew how to figure things out & practicalities when it came to making things.

Yeah. I watched a video on youtube and the guy said they weren't very loud. My first shot...ears ringing for a few minutes. Too fun!

Many thanks

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@@AcmeRestorations great restoration by the way

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Nice souvenir to share. :) Thanks.

I was expecting A lot of story's but this I was not expecting and this is very funny

🤣 When I red they there were no water I kinda thought of the same thing 😂😂😂😂

LOL sounds like something I would have done. lol

man what a story

Thank you very much!

Wow, thank you!

These are still made today in Allentown Pa.

@@imperialpresence3331 I saw a restoration of one of those toy ovens, can't recall which channel. The toy was also coated in lead paint, of course. After the restoration, the restorer showed how to make brownies. Yum.

@@imperialpresence3331 No seat belts/child seats, allowing the child to sit on their lap and drive, vehicles made of steel instead of aluminum, hiking, exploring the forest and learning about wildlife, both with plants, animals, and insects, learning survival skills in the wild, building tree houses, fishing, camping, family days, road trips, surprise trips to the ice cream parlor or the local swimming hole, hobby shops, everyone together at the table to eat, no electronic distractions, assisting with household chores, upholding responsibilities at home, caring for the pet you JUST HAD to have, both parents making/having time to properly raise and assist their offspring with homework and/or extra curricular activities, playing board/card games, family/neighborhood bar-b-ques, progressive dinners, mutual respect and trust with everyone in the neighborhood, mowing, (landscaping), babysitting, and generally going out and doing things to earn and save money, knowing each other and their children, safely allowing the children to go out on Halloween without parental supervision, allowing children to walk to the nearby village and leave the neighborhood unsupervised, firecrackers, cap guns, working and living together as a family unit, everyone coming together in the neighborhood when help was needed or when adversity struck. Yeah, it was such a pain and dangerous time to be raised back in the 50's and 60's.

Patrick Donaghy Well, yes, but: -The child is endangered by not being on a child seat -**POLIO** -Cold War -Led paint being almost everywhere -AIDS Epidemic -LA Riots -Ferguson -OJ getting away -Great Depression -Economic collapse in the 70s -The ozone layer being fuckin’ erased pretty damn quickly -Violent Crime being a common occurrence in the 80s-90s -Lynching was still a thing -79’s energy crisis And so on Yeah, i’d say back then times were quite different, wouldn’t you?

@@golepelogelopelo1953 Nothing like a doom-saying liberal to spoil everything for everyone.