It’s Just Cool: Balloon Bazooka

Throwing water balloons is for children. Adults launch them, usually with a rig based on surgical tubing. But for true Toolmonger overkill, you’ll need the Balloon Bazooka: a pneumatic launcher that can loft a balloon over 300 feet — or launch up to twelve balloons at once.
A four-liter steel tank pressurized to 150 PSI provides the motive force to drive balloons down a six-foot barrel — and this is the company’s smallest model. Their “Magnum Model” features a whopping eight-foot barrel and a four-liter tank, good for flinging balloons up to 500’. Note that you must bring your own air source. All models fill via a standard Schrader valve just like your car’s tires. You’ll also need a tire gauge, so your best solution might be a small, portable air compressor with a built-in gauge.
Pricing for the entry-level model starts around $120, and the bad-ass Magnum will set you back $220. Of course, building your own doesn’t seem all that difficult — and if you’re brave, we found numerous online instruction sets employing PVC rated to more than 200 PSI. Or you can snag a three-man tubing-type launcher for just $43.
One advantage to the tubing-type launcher: it’s a lot easier to hide during clandestine ops. You’re more likely to get in and out of target range without alerting the soon-to-be-soaked if you aren’t carrying a six-foot-long tube and air compressor. Then again, if you don’t have cronies to help, the pneumatic version might be your only option.
Balloon Bazooka [Official Site]
The Beast Mega Slingshot [Sling King]
Street Pricing [Google Products]
Via Amazon [What’s this?]
DIY Pneumatic Water Balloon Launcher [Soaker Media]
you could adapt a paint ball air tank (3000/4500)
to provide you the air source much smaller
or you could build a launcher with one
Well, sweet… Someone will love this and I can’t wait to tell her about this. Thanks again…
Another broken link, to a failed company, that made a common PVC toy, that killed someone. PVC, even pressure rated, fails with sunlight and repeated fill/empty cycles. Ozone, chemical, paint and more also make them fail unexpectedly. There are good ones with legal, hydrotested, pressure rated aluminum air chambers.
It’s not made of PVC. Mine is a composite. Nobody died. They just went out of business due to low sales. Who would expect a business that makes balloon launchers to stay afloat?!