Using hair spray as a propellant is almost ironic given it's use to help hold on handle bar grips.
Which reminds me of the time we were playing grip basket ball when the boss walked in. (grip basket ball was blowing a grip off of a handle bar using the compressed air line. We took aim at the wall of Wald baskets... over the front door).
With hair spray or deodorant as propellants, it sounds like an activity that a generation brought up on television would embrace. I'd guess that the deodorant would, at the least, not offend. The hair spray would undoubtedly be of a cheap variety and likely the fragrance would remind one of high school prom dates. What a world we live in!
Chuck Hoefer Vista, California USA
brianbaylis@juno.com wrote:
> Dear CR Friends,
>
> I just want to mention something fun that is due to air on television
> tomorrow, Thursday Jan. 28. We have word that the History Channel is
> airing a segment on the program "Modern Marvels" related to "the potato".
> Apparently about a year ago world renown bike painter and one of my best
> friends and colleges, Joe Bell, was filmed demonstrating a common
> framebuilder/painter recreational activity for the History Channel. Jason
> Lilly, who is also a bike industry person is featured as well. When we
> gather for parties and fun, one of the favorite activities is shooting the
> Potato Gun. They are made from plumbing tubing and an igniter from a
> Coleman lantern. The propellant is usually hair spray or deodorant. The
> rest of the details are best seen as opposed to explained. I encourage
> everyone to try and catch Modern Marvels tomorrow at 8pm (as far as we
> have been told) to see this thing in action. After the show I will explain
> a little bit of the history of these activities amongst framebuilders (the
> ones who are fun and creative people, not the ones who take themselves way
> too seriously) and fill in a few other things we like to do for grins
> after we've done a hard days work.
>
> I don't have the technology to record the show; but I would love to have a
> DVD copy or whatever if someone can capture the show. Once I'm all
> finished moving and getting all set up in my new shop, and after I have
> caught up a bit; I have plans to build " Uber Potato"; which will be the
> next stage of refinement of the process. The current generation is called
> the "Dick Tater". I suspect this will be WELL worth watching, knowing what
> a fun personality JB has and knowing his ability as a showman. Catch it if
> you can! NO, not the potato, the TV show!
>
> Brian Baylis
> La Mesa, CA
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