Frikkin awesome! Mad skillz. You never cease to amaze me. 💯💯

@AcmeRestorations

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@sherin3623

Жыл бұрын

@@AcmeRestorations Mm0maa11a1p1p¹

Just the sheer amount of different techniques is mind boggling. Dude, you are a genius.

@AcmeRestorations

4 жыл бұрын

and good lookin'! Thanks for watching.

My buddy had one if these in the early 60's. It was the coolest thing to have next to a BB gun. My parents thought it had too much pop and, like a BB gun, they wouldn't get me one. I had forgotten about it until I watched this video...I still want one!

@charlessteinmetz802

2 жыл бұрын

Look online there is still a Conestoga facility in Allentown Pennsylvania

@SolvietSoundtrack115

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlessteinmetz802 they make aluminum cased ones now to there really cool

@flynnlizzy5469

Жыл бұрын

Mine wouldn't let me have the BB gun ("you'll shoot your eye out" of course) but they gave med one of these when I was 7 years old. Go figure. And like all good American boys, I did the first thing every kid does when recieving one: Figured out what fit in the barrel and made a good bullet for shooting down the plastic army men .... that every good American kid also had back in those days.

@giancarlobadiali7406

Жыл бұрын

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@moinsh7443

Жыл бұрын

@@giancarlobadiali7406ض ةععتعض

I had one of these cannons back in 1964. It was a lot of fun. I would launch projectiles made of wadded aluminum foil.

@ArtandCraft2016

3 жыл бұрын

You were alive back then

@777cmm777

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArtandCraft2016 Very funny, you young whipper-snapper!

@weirdcarpetthing97

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArtandCraft2016 if what C Morales is telling the truth, they would be around 50-70 years old rn

@harrygregory6227

3 жыл бұрын

how about tungsten balls for projectiles and c4 for the propellent for more force and power

@777cmm777

3 жыл бұрын

@@harrygregory6227 A good suggestion, but those items were scarce in the 1960s.

Nice work. Beats watching someone restore a vise for the 1000000th time.

@frick566

4 жыл бұрын

That they found in a rice paddy!

@frank-t6857

4 жыл бұрын

So tired of vice restorations

@slowneutron6163

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I used vice instead of vise. Then I restored it to perfection. HA.

@patrickdonaghy2070

3 жыл бұрын

Yet you still watched it. HMMMMMMM

@gazb6807

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine moaning about watching something you literally had a choice to watch.

Now that's a restoration! Oh the memories. My brother and I each had one of those. When we ran out of powder ammo we used firecrackers. Had those things for years. Wish I knew what finally happened to them. Thanks for a great video!

@memyname1771

3 жыл бұрын

I used firecrackers and fired cut off pieces of candles.

@davidvincent1093

3 жыл бұрын

actually you can STILL buy them on line as well as the powder to work them!

@mattwyrick8394

3 жыл бұрын

I got lucky when I found mine in my mom's house as we were clearing stuff out to have it demolished. I got it the day before they pushed it over with an excavator. I was surprised with all the other water damage the cannon was almost pristine.

@user-qq9mk4zi8h

Жыл бұрын

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It is such a pleasure to watch someone so skilled . I sincerely hope you now have endless fun firing it !

My grandad had one of these in the 60’s. Brought back lots of memories. Great job!

I had this cannon in 1965. It worked great Very loud bang my neighbors hated it

I had that same model back in the 70's as a kid. I still have it today!

Great job !! 👏🌹🙏 May God bless you !! 🇳🇵Hail Nepal !!!

I had one just like it as a child.

Back in the day when toys were cool.

@bextar6365

3 жыл бұрын

NOW, KIDS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO OWN A CAP GUN!

@ChanceKearns

3 жыл бұрын

Bextar636 yes you are

@Reman1975

3 жыл бұрын

Tell me about it. Back in the day you could buy your kids the "Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab" science toy, Complete with a few different types of uranium ore and a Geiger counter !!!! Nowadays we live in a world where toys for teenagers can't even have small parts in case they choke themselves to death on them. How I see it, If you're too stupid to understand that putting the mussel of a firing toy canon in your mouth and setting it off could kill you, Guess what, The gene pool's better off without you. That's called "Natural selection in action".......... Don't let the coffin lid hit you in the ass on your way out. :)

@joe-xk8nl

3 жыл бұрын

Correct. I have an old toy tank from the soviet union. rotating turret, all metal, rotating tracks.. Now toys kids gets are cheap plastic pieces of crap.

@CZ350tuner

3 жыл бұрын

@uncletigger I used powdered safety (brown) match heads, sulphur (evaporated the water out of dead battery acid) & soot (carbon) to make gunpowder for the cannon I made as a teenager in the 1970's. Worked fine. Generation X kids were way smarter than todays Millennials & Generation Z kids. We knew how to figure things out & practicalities when it came to making things.

I really love your way of doing it. I look forward to exchanging and recovering with you

I played with one of these as a kid in the sixties, it was alot of fun. Liked it so much i built a Larger one!

@AcmeRestorations

Жыл бұрын

Nice! Yeah I've had a lot of fun with it.

Ah sim! Assisto muito de suas restaurações. Ficam boas; bonitas e funcionais. Parabéns.

I still have my Big Bang Cannon from my childhood. I also have a 15" version (LOUD!!) I do recall that the igniters were always getting lost. IIRC they were cast... yours are a lot nicer. Great job on the wheels. Bangsite (calcium carbide powder) is still available and my cannon still works. I drag it out sometimes for 4th of July demos. Also my Wilesco Steam Engine.

I'm speachless. Fantastic. Such skills!

You sir, are a master craftsman!

I like it when you restore very old things

That was a first class job mate. Congratulations.

Yes! I had one just like it back in the 60's. I loved that thing. That was the beginning of my love affair with cannons. Today mine use black powder! Nice job rebuilding the ignition system.

@Oanh96354

Жыл бұрын

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I had one like that one but it was made around the 70s. It was great fun and was very loud. That a great restoration job.

Just brilliant. Love it

Thank you so very much - you don't know how much you helped me. About 2 months ago I was rummaging around a back room in our lodge storage area. I found one of these (the largess model in black) along with all the things to make it work. No one had seen it in over 30 years and it had been forgotten. I have been playing with it in my spare time with no real idea of what to do even with the original instructions from 1960 - 1962. Now I have seen the workings of it I will be able to get it firing again. Thank you again

@glasshalffull8625

3 жыл бұрын

My brothers and I were helping clean out our mother’s garage. As we found stuff from our childhood, I lamented that the only thing I really wished I still had was my Big Bang Cannon that I bought in about 1967. Low in behold, my brother says “you’ll never believe what I found” as he held up my cannon. With a few parts from Conestoga, I’m back in business terrorizing the neighborhood! Have fun with yours!

This is a new level of restoration. Fantastic.

@kalebfannin3393

3 жыл бұрын

How much do you want for it

@ilinabonesinaziktiryaylala2960

3 жыл бұрын

Wavv

@brucebrinkley9043

3 жыл бұрын

Good job thanks for showing it

A really great restoration, and a lot of fabrication of missing and worn out parts. Very well done!👍👍👍

@josepherhardt164

3 жыл бұрын

Forget the restoration. I'm salivating over the tools!

That is fantastic. I've never seen one of these before. Congratulations on a wonderful restoration.

Im jelouse. Not of your tools that just money. But your patiance something i lack in spades. I had to watch your vid at 1.5x's and still skipped sections. You are a master and i bow to you SIR.

I had one when I was a kid in the early 70s. I think my father got it for me at a fireworks stand. Loved it. If you got the mixture just right it made a hell of a boom.

Beautiful simply beautiful

I have my Dad's, I don't have the skills to restore it but I'm glad I found a video demonstrating what it was like when new. Mine has a sticker on the right side of the barrel that reads "DO NOT LOOK INTO BARREL OF CANNON WHEN FIRING"

@Krawl72

3 жыл бұрын

If it's the igniter that's the issue. You can actually order a new one. Just look up Bangsite cannon. The company is still in business. Has been since 1912.

Good working I like it

Well done you! That was an awesome restoration to watch. Loved that it worked perfectly! (As usual..) love your work.

Another channel added to my "perfect restoration channels to binge watch" list. Subbed.

@AcmeRestorations

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

everybody: see's scrap ACME Restorations: see's a whole army of robots waiting to be assembled

@diegoalzaouki6979

3 жыл бұрын

Atomic_Bombs lol

The attention to detail is above and beyond.

Great restoration! Congratulations, pal!

I had one of these as a kid in the late 70’s. My grandmother bought it for me one year at our local July 4th fireworks stand. It made a good loud bang. Pretty sure I still have it somewhere. Memories

OMG - this is unbelievable!

You are the master blaster....unreal...great job.....excellent...

Great job

Toys were different back in the day lol

@michaelhogan9053

4 жыл бұрын

These are still made today in Allentown Pa.

@josepherhardt164

3 жыл бұрын

@@imperialpresence3331 I saw a restoration of one of those toy ovens, can't recall which channel. The toy was also coated in lead paint, of course. After the restoration, the restorer showed how to make brownies. Yum.

@patrickdonaghy2070

3 жыл бұрын

@@imperialpresence3331 No seat belts/child seats, allowing the child to sit on their lap and drive, vehicles made of steel instead of aluminum, hiking, exploring the forest and learning about wildlife, both with plants, animals, and insects, learning survival skills in the wild, building tree houses, fishing, camping, family days, road trips, surprise trips to the ice cream parlor or the local swimming hole, hobby shops, everyone together at the table to eat, no electronic distractions, assisting with household chores, upholding responsibilities at home, caring for the pet you JUST HAD to have, both parents making/having time to properly raise and assist their offspring with homework and/or extra curricular activities, playing board/card games, family/neighborhood bar-b-ques, progressive dinners, mutual respect and trust with everyone in the neighborhood, mowing, (landscaping), babysitting, and generally going out and doing things to earn and save money, knowing each other and their children, safely allowing the children to go out on Halloween without parental supervision, allowing children to walk to the nearby village and leave the neighborhood unsupervised, firecrackers, cap guns, working and living together as a family unit, everyone coming together in the neighborhood when help was needed or when adversity struck. Yeah, it was such a pain and dangerous time to be raised back in the 50's and 60's.

@golepelogelopelo1953

3 жыл бұрын

Patrick Donaghy Well, yes, but: -The child is endangered by not being on a child seat -**POLIO** -Cold War -Led paint being almost everywhere -AIDS Epidemic -LA Riots -Ferguson -OJ getting away -Great Depression -Economic collapse in the 70s -The ozone layer being fuckin’ erased pretty damn quickly -Violent Crime being a common occurrence in the 80s-90s -Lynching was still a thing -79’s energy crisis And so on Yeah, i’d say back then times were quite different, wouldn’t you?

@farpointgamingdirect

3 жыл бұрын

@@golepelogelopelo1953 Nothing like a doom-saying liberal to spoil everything for everyone.

Never seen anything like this ....cool restoration

My best friend had one of these and we played with it frequently. We usually split the costs for supplies. Lots of fun for a couple of pre-teen boys!

@AcmeRestorations

4 жыл бұрын

I just found out about these. Missed out as a kid. Made up for it yesterday though!

@mightress

3 жыл бұрын

As kid i went to the local blacksmith and sweeped the floor there for the fuel. He used it to make the gas for his torches.

Neat trick for hubs

Awesome. I grew up with one of these (late 70s), so not as old as this one, though it doesn't look any different. Fun tip: more "ammo" produces more of a flame, less produces a louder bang.

Loved it. Great job! Thanks for the entertainment.

I’m not remotely interested in a gas cannon,but the skills to restore it were absolutely amazing.First class craftsmanship.

My five boys would have loved this cannon. Great restoration.

This would have been the absolute best toy ever for me when I was a child. God damn I would have had fun with this.

Nice what I am looking for, good dazzling job well done

That was fantastic! Congratulations. Great job!!!

*Such a mastery*

A FAR cry from my high school metal shop course but it's pleasing and gratifying to see the basics are still being utilized. Thoroughly enjoyed this video. Brought back pleasant memories.

My dad had one of these! I never knew it was missing pieces and this is certainly the first time I’ve ever seen it fire! Thanks muchly!

wow, this is a fabulous job

Straordinario! Bravissimo..

Mi piace la precisione del meccanismo di sparo ! Bravo !

Great skill

They still manufacture and sell these cannons ten minutes from where I live in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Every kid I knew had a cannon.

@AcmeRestorations

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! My next video, should be up on Friday, is a Conestoga Big Bang Tank. They haven't made them for a long long time. Stay tuned.

Father-in-law has one of those cannons. It was missing the cap and ignitor too. He almost threw it away until I found out that the company that made it is still in business and sells replacement parts for all of their cannons. He brings it out every 4th of July.

loved it!

The Cannon model kind of looks like it was based off the "Cannone da 149/23" an Italian Heavy Howitzer. It's model of /23 was used from WW1 to the Interwar period where it was later changed out for the modello 35 and later the modello 40. What's interesting is the gun's caliber remained a staple in the Italian army until after the cold war.

I had that Cannon when I was a kid ! That and a howitzer gas Cannon ! Click BOOOMMM !!! WOOHOO !!

@AcmeRestorations

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, this turned out to be WAY more fun that I thought it would be! Thanks for watching.

Wow, super restoration my friend :)

@AcmeRestorations

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks

I remember the Bangsite cannons that worked the same way with the calcium carbide. Of course, that wasn't quite loud enough for us back then, so we used empty paint cans and just poked an igniter hole on the bottom at the edge. A bit of water, 3-4 chunks of the calcium carbide, press the cap on tight, prop the top edge of the can up on a piece of wood and wait 3-4 minutes for the gas to build up. Then wedge a wooden stick match 's head halfway into the igniter hole, light the other end of the match, and back way up. After 3-4 minutes of the gas building up, those things sounded like Howitzers going off. There would literally be 5 or 6 feet of flame shoot from the the can as it blew the lid off. Most times the can couldn't be reused after that as both the can and lid would be rounded out. Yes, we were quite nuts back then.

@AffordBindEquipment

3 жыл бұрын

nothing nuts about that at at all. too bad the kids today won't have those kinds of memories. All they will remember is helicopter parents.

@josepherhardt164

3 жыл бұрын

I never had fun like that when I was a kid. Taking notes ...

@patrickdonaghy2070

3 жыл бұрын

We did something similar except we used soda cans, tennis balls, and lighter fluid. Coated the inside with lighter fluid, sun it around a couple of time to coat the lining, dropped the ball inside and touched it odd via a hole in the bottom most can. Unfortunately, cans are now made differently which negates this.

@deadgowr8958

3 жыл бұрын

@@patrickdonaghy2070 I used to do something similar with tennis balls and pringles cans. We'd put anything we could find that was combustable into the can; Perfume, cooking spray, ground up match heads, maybe a combination of the like... Then jam a tennis ball in as far as we could, poke a hole and use a match as the fuse... Sometimes it was anticlimatic, sometimes we got grounded for breaking windows. Good times.

@AcmeRestorations

3 жыл бұрын

We used hair spray in our tennis ball mortars. LOL.

Great work.

Bloody awesome

Subbed, nice to see new parts made for missing ones. nice work!!

I like the calibrated eye dremel work. Not everything needs precision tools and setup :)

What an amazing restoration ! This man is a great machinist and a true perfectioniist! Wonderful work!!

@AcmeRestorations

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Very, very good, excellent.

Wow, you did awesome work, bravo. 👏👏👏👏👏

@AcmeRestorations

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

@matheusameliano2867

3 жыл бұрын

isso ai

You recreated an amazing rare piece of damage Thanks. you very much. Keep creative

Good job bro

had one of these "bangsite" cannons they were fun and loud

Excellent restoration!!

That was very cool! I never owned one, but a friend of mine had one we all played with with our G.I. JOE'S in the mid 60's! Brings back some fond memories. And some clouded ones too!😂 Part of being old I guess!😁

Super job, bravo.

7:00 how to ruin a dead center followed immediately by 7:30 how to ruin a collet. use the face of the drill chuck to keep the die flat, and wrap the file in foil. Awesome toy :)

@AcmeRestorations

3 жыл бұрын

Well, you're not wrong, however that center was ruined long before I got it. It's my "do not use as a center" center. Came with the lathe. I keep it for jobs like this.

The Big Bang toy cannon, isn't just a theory. Good job man.

@AcmeRestorations

4 жыл бұрын

LOL

Nicely done. I have one of those Big Bang cannons in a different style. Amazing how loud they are. Thumbs Up!

@AcmeRestorations

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I watched a video on youtube and the guy said they weren't very loud. My first shot...ears ringing for a few minutes. Too fun!

My brother David R. Shelton once used to keep this World War 2 military toy cannon. It was back then during the mid 1970s.

Awesome job! It looks better than new.

My man you have done it again I love watching your work, you are a true craftsman

@AcmeRestorations

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

I had a friend that had one of these. We were at his place one day and spotted it in the garage. He had to get his dad to shoot the thing because he wasn't allowed. It was one of those kind of presents you get from your cool uncle on Christmas.

Very fun! Nice job!

Top notch.

Now this is a restoration!.

Great work!

brilliant

Bom Trabalho! Parabéns.

perfect restoration very cool congratulations

Awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awesome job!!!

Fantastic! You are so skilful. Well done! Greetings from South Africa.

@AcmeRestorations

4 жыл бұрын

Hello!

I am a new sub.. Loving what I have seen so far! Great job!!

Bellissimo!!hai ridato vita a una vera rarità!! Complimenti!!

Awesome!