Wow, I have been gone for a few days, and it seems LOADS of discussion and questions have arisen. Okay, I will try to answer all of this...
Welcome back Elxiah!
@Hii: Depending on how you build the shooters, you can make them any size you want, but really, they are going to be bulky. You can make a pressure vessel that is small, you don't have to use a backpack. I just am because it holds more fluid and the way I was making a pressure vessel was hazardous. Not that the rest of this isn't kind of hazardous, but still... And also, you've already built a shooter? Nice, I would like to know what it entails. About WW's formula, which one are you talking about? He made quite a few different formulas and configurations. I simply wanted experience in chemistry, so I am making this formula on my own. Also, I want to go through your understanding of the shooter... first off, the pressure vessel doesn't have to be something that holds just the fluid or just the pressure, or both... It is just a vessel that holds the fluid, that can withstand high pressure for the pressure for the fluid to shoot to go through. You also said the solenoid opens, it doesn't have to be a solenoid, but to each his own. Also, your inquiries... the spinneret should spin to "weave" the fluid into a line. It needs to twist around the other strands. It can be motorized or the holes can be tilted in such a way that it does so, or you can rifle it. It all achieves the same thing. The spinneret is heated to evaporate the solvent quicker. And about your formula, I honestly don't know if it would hold that much. I have never seen anything like that ever tested. White_widow made up a formula using nanocellulose, if you can find that, then that would be ideal for holding such a weight, though it would be INCREDIBLY hard to manufacture. The basketball pump nozzle... I was using one of those needles to puncture the CO2 on my first pressure vessel idea. It's inside a valve, but you can see the picture of that
here. And about the swinging thing... really, the physics of it defines it not possible to swing, simply because we don't have the upper body strength as humans. However, I see nothing that completely debunks it, but I really don't know at all. Once again, the formula that would hold the most weight would be the nanocellulose, but you would have to probably work at a place like 3M to make it.
@reindeer30: Welcome back! It is pretty nice to see so many people taking interest in this project. We should be able to get steady models finished during the summer.
Wow, that was a long post, but still, one last thing... a new video comes out on my channel tomorrow. I didn't plan to do 2 project updates so close in time, but this is rather exciting. The ester that I have been attempting to form has formed. Also, I have written a new story for my film. I will discuss both in the new video, but I will mostly talk about the formula in the video. Believe me, this is really exciting... I can finally start mixing the
actual formula and running tests with it.