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You should turn that beast into a potatoe launcher on the weekends for the kids with that thing!!!

Don't know about a wrap. I used to do those when i had my photo lab and they are WAY over priced to have somebody print them for you. $1500--$2000 price for something that has less than $150.00 in material.

If anything I'll give it a new paint job. Used to do that also. Back in the 70's I used to do paint and body work as a sideline, making $3k--$4K a month. in my garage at home.

Gary

For the 1" air pump I am switching to. Going for the added distance.

Gary

Gary

    That pump is hugh!! The picture of it has me running for cover!!Good luck!! hope it makes you alot $$

When I saw the photo I said Holy****! It looks like somthing out of Ghost Busters! I think it's great can't wait to see how far you can shoot.....Steve Babcock I will take your set up,that looks great. How much did it run you?

I did a large church complex 3 years ago , 2 day job . I brought along a diesel tow behind compressor . It would run a constant 100 psi all day with a capacity of 185 cfm. Now a 1/4 inch air hose wont allow that much cfm thru it but it kept 100 psi all day long at basically an idle . running a 1/2 in pump, What i found was to get more distance you had to increase the nozzle size , I basically used a garden hose sprayer and was able to get 40 ft , but it was putting out a lot of gpm , great on the big jobs ,over kill for residential . Best thing was it would only burn 3 gallons of fuel and was much quieter than the 5 hp briggs I had.

NICE GARY ! I can't wait to see the finished product !

garyw wrote:

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Well I ran into a slight problem with the carb. yesterday. Took it apart and removed about 1/4 teasoon full of very fine sand. Cleaned it and put it all back together and re-mounted it. Ran fine for about an hour and then started flooding out again. Took it apart only to find the float stuck tight.  I then went and did some research on the net. Read several articles about the same problem others are having. The float in this card is some type of hard foam, which does NOT like the new gas and causes the float to swell up and stick. Going to try and find a metal float monday, or sand some off this one and ecapulsate it in epoxy. It WILL get fixed next week. Oh well, its going to rain all week-end anyhow. Might be a very wet Super Bowl.  I'm only 135 miles from it.

Gary

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 Everything is fixed and I'm done.!!

Took the carb apart (again) and sanded down the float and then coated it in super glue. Several articles I found said that worked great, so I tried it. Ran it about 2 hours today and it is running great.

Hooked the pump up and gave it a trial run. I'm happy with the results, especially doing it the way I did it. 90 lbs of air, 85' of hose still wrapped around the mounts on the trailer, and it shot 53'. If I was shooting onto a hard surface (roof) It would probably splash another 6-8' which should reach anything I come up against. I can turn the pressure up to 120 psi and it may go further. I will play some more tomorrow. Got a party to go to.  The pump only cycles about every 6-8 seconds with the ball valve wide open.. Pumps like a crazy. 

Gary

Looking forward to the update