24th February 2004

Well, Leftovers I named because of what it's made out of, leftovers. I originally planned to call it Conan II, since I made a homemade before that was similar called Conan. Conan didn't work out too well, but I did learn that I can make good straps from rope by making it. Conan was air pressure, Leftovers is CPS and holds about twice as much water.

I won't say how it's made here, check out www.sscentral.net for that.

Leftovers started as an idea in my Pre-Calc class. Since we spend at least a half of the class going over homework, I was just staring off into space and thinking about the parts that I'm not going to use for making what I call now Threshold, I'm gonna change the name to something else soon. I listed the parts, and I thought "hey... I'm got enough to make something cool...", and then I started assembling it in my head. I originally planned it to be a homemade Splashzooka, but later I thought that it would be awkward to use because I only have a leftover ball valve as the trigger.

Building it was a breeze, my only problem was that I didn't have any more 4" endcaps. I was at a party and I thought a 2 litre would fit nicely in the hole, so I took an empty one and cut off the top to use as the endcap.

At first I used a barbed fitting as the nozzle, I wasn't impressed by the range or power. It had a 7X-8X nozzle, and 33 feet range with a 20 second shot time. Terrible. So, I took what I was going to use as a nozzle storage device for my other homemade, and I used it to make a system exactly like the one in that homemade. I gave a screw on endcap to my dad and he put a 5/64" hole in it, which is a bit bigger than 1/16". My dad doesn't want me to use power tools. The range now is 42 feet with a 2X nozzle, and with a CPS behind the scenes the sting factor is great. Shot time also has been increased to 2 minutes 21 seconds.

When testing the new nozzle, I noticed that a lot of the time something awesome would happen. The pressure of the shot was so high and the nozzle was drilled so cleanly that the stream was almost invisible, I could only see the reflection. Most of the time it's not like that, but it's neat when it is. Since the pressure of each shot is rather high, I tested it against dirt on various things, mostly cars, it washed the dirt off in practically no time.

Then I started walking around and shooting things. About that time a school bus came buy, mine passed an hour or so ago. The kids that walked by stared at it, I think they wanted it.

Leftovers hasn't been in any battles yet, but be sure that if it is it'll rain doom upon anyone who goes against it.