Vacuum bazookas are a very popular and favorite form of entertainment among children, especially in the summer season. Such toys can be bought in specialized stores, but they can also be made by hand in home conditions from the most ordinary vacuum cleaner.
Let's watch the author’s video homemadethen try to repeat the manufacturing process
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So, to make a vacuum bazooka from a vacuum cleaner, we need:
- vacuum cleaner;
- meter sewer PVC pipe with a diameter of 40 mm;
- tee with a tilt angle of 45 degrees;
- a piece of paper;
- adhesive tape;
- Kinder surprise candy box;
- approximately 50 gr. salt.
First of all, we need to insert one end of our PVC pipe into a tee. On the tees, as a rule, there are standard sealing rubber, which means that there is no need to use a sealant.
Next, we need to insert the tip of the vacuum cleaner into the hole from the tee, which is located at an angle of 45 degrees. Since the diameters of the pipes are different, seal the nozzle with adhesive tape.
It should be noted that the more powerful the suction power of the vacuum cleaner will be, the stronger we will get a shot from a vacuum bazooka.
The vacuum bazooka is practically ready for us. You can start making the charge. The charge will be a box that can be found in any Kinder Surprise candy. However, the box itself does not have enough mass that will allow it to fly on. To ensure maximum flight range, the box must be weighted. Pour a little salt into it and close it.
That's all. Now you should explain how exactly our vacuum bazooka works. The principle of operation of this entertainment is extremely simple. First of all, we need to turn on the vacuum cleaner. Thanks to the tee we used, air is sucked in from two sides at once, namely from the front and back. We put a piece of paper on the front, thereby blocking the air intake. And at the back we insert a box from under Kinder. Thus, the vacuum cleaner sucks the box, it gradually accelerates inside the pipe and knocks the paper out at high speed.
Useful information: a bazooka was originally called a wind instrument, which was very similar to a trombone.