32 cal Victorian Air Cane brought back to life

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

Reuploaded video links as due to overzealous moderation of historical footage, my YouTube channel has been terminated and the content is no longer accessible:

[1900colt]

Very interesting.

Amazing that the old cane could hold those pressures too!

Thanks for adding the video

[Garvin]

Fascinating Jack, thank you!

Why on earth would Youtube ban those videos? They aren't usually so squeamish.

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

Why on earth would Youtube ban those videos? They aren't usually so squeamish.

They terminated the entire channel, as well as second channel I started for airgun related stuff, without warning, apparently posting silent historical footage without commentary is now "hate speech"

[JPSAXNC]

The area of the sealing foot print (indentation) on the original poppet looks much larger than the new one. The old poppet has more stiction that might be why the gun is dumping air now.

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

The area of the sealing foot print (indentation) on the original poppet looks much larger than the new one. The old poppet has more stiction that might be why the gun is dumping air now.

The dump happened because the valve failed but once adjusted I got good results without dumping the air, this was the performance recorded:

4 shots starting at 1600 psi:

1) 869 fps / 75.4 ft lbs

2) 873 fps / 76.1 ft lbs

3) 860 fps / 73.9 ft lbs

4) 858 fps / 73.5 ft lbs

4 shots starting at 1750 psi:

1) 726 fps / 52.6 ft lbs

2) 883 fps / 77.9 ft lbs

3) 884 fps / 78.1 ft lbs

4) 878 fps / 77.0 ft lbs

[xcalibur]

Why on earth would Youtube ban those videos? They aren't usually so squeamish.

They terminated the entire channel, as well as second channel I started for airgun related stuff, without warning, apparently posting silent historical footage without commentary is now "hate speech"

Maybe there's a group of individuals who identify as cans.  LOL

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

Maybe there's a group of individuals who identify as cans.  LOL

If that's the case then I'm definitely on the hook for crimes against tincanity

[JPSAXNC]

I'm really surprised at the velocities you are getting at those fill pressures, pretty amazing.