It's been a while since I last posted about my steampunkesque crank fire creations, so here's an update on my latest 3rd prototype that is convertible between being water cooled or air cooled in under a minute and showing it firing at the range. I used to use Webshots to upload my photos and videos to. But when they closed down, all the pictures and videos I had linked to there in my online posts, disappeared. I still have my pics and videos on my computer and saved to disks, but they disappeared in all my online posts since they were all linked to Webshots. Now I use Photobucket as well as YouTube.
Here's a video I just finished creating showing the evolution of my crank fire dress up kit prototypes versions 1 through 3. The first one is air cooled only. The second one is (truly) water cooled only. But my third prototype is convertible in under a minute to be either air cooled or (truly) water cooled (no fake water jackets here). I learned a lot making the first two, and my 3rd prototype incorporates new design changes that I learned from making the earlier ones. In the last several minutes of my video you will see my latest 3rd prototype firing at the range using the new GSG 110 rd drum mag and it's really spitting out the rounds. If I could get .22 tracers, it could shoot a Zeppelin down (seriously) although possible, I'd never do that because there are no Zeppelins left and certainly not any enemy Zeppelins, but if there were, it could shoot one down. Being a manually cranked gun, it is legally not a machine gun in the U.S.. Hope you enjoy the video. If not and if anyone doesn't like it because they don't like real firearms, please refrain from flaming and perhaps the best course of action would be to withhold any negative political or gun control related comments. I don't want to be drawn into any gun control related arguments by anyone who might be anti-gun. I am asking this nicely in advance so please respect this reasonable request. Thanks, Bill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSJi6rvNwIs&feature=youtu.be .