CHEVYINLINE6
Single-Sixer
This is a muzzle loading cannon I built at work about 12 years ago. It was made over a time frame of a half hour a day over a 6 month period and extra time when the boss and manager were not around. The barrel is a 26 inch piece of DOM seemless tubing with a wall thickness of appox one inch at it's thickest part. The bore is appox 1-3/4 inches in size. The bore is the size of a golf ball or large lead cannon ball fishing sinker. I had a machine shop turn down the front of the barrel and thread the rear of the barrel and then I screwed in a $40.00 grade 8 bolt into the rear of the barrel and mig welded it in place. I then capped off the rear with a cut down oxygen bottle cap and mig welded that on and added a brass drawer pull. The carriage is made from 1/4 inch steel plate and the barrel can be raised or lowered by cranking a handle under the rear of the barrel. It has 8 wheels on 1/2 inch axles. To transport the barrel can be removed by turning 3 large wing nuts as the whole thing is very heavy. I test fired it with 2 hundred grains of black powder and a golf ball as the projectile. It went thru both sides of two GMC van doors. I never did find the golf ball. I have been using cannon fuse to ingnite the powder charge, but I am thinking of setting it up with a hammer and using Remington power loads. Total cost for the machine work and materials was right around $400.00
INLINECHEVY6.
INLINECHEVY6.