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Re: Shooting cannons
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lugnet.pirates
Date: 
Sun, 15 Oct 2000 14:48:16 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
In lugnet.pirates, Scott Thomas writes:
What kind of spring is used?  All this time, I thought just flicking the • black
piece of the cannon made it fire!

  Nope, there's a spring inside.  Someone here did
  modify non-shooting cannon (the disabled variety,
  not the one-piece mould variety, naturally) to fire
  with a cut-down spring from a retractible ball-point
  pen.  It's roughly the same diameter.

  best,

  Lindsay

I have a disabled one.  Can you give me more details on how to fix it?



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  Re: Shooting cannons
 
(...) I've never had to 'undisable' one myself, so I really can't, but if you do a search through .pirates you should be able to find the old thread which tells you how. best LFB (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.pirates)

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  Re: Shooting cannons
 
(...) Nope, there's a spring inside. Someone here did modify non-shooting cannon (the disabled variety, not the one-piece mould variety, naturally) to fire with a cut-down spring from a retractible ball-point pen. It's roughly the same diameter. (...) (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.pirates)

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