Gardenia Launch Tubes

Discussion about Compressors, hose, pipes, fittings, launchers, release mechanisms, and launch tubes.
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Has anyone heard of a launch tube being used with a Gardenia Style Launcher? Is there a common tube which will fit snugly inside a standard gardenia or should I try and modify the nozzle to fit a stock pipe or tube?
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Do you know George from Air Command? He mad a Launch tube for his rockets. He uses a Gardena nozzle. If you are looking into that i sugest you visit his site. Its really good.

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Drag_Racer408a wrote:Do you know George from Air Command? He mad a Launch tube for his rockets. He uses a Gardena nozzle. If you are looking into that i sugest you visit his site. Its really good.

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Doesn't George have a lathe ane makes his own nozzles and other parts?
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Yes he does. He makes his own custom couplings and baffels for his rockets. He does very good work.
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Tim Chen wrote:Has anyone heard of a launch tube being used with a Gardenia Style Launcher? Is there a common tube which will fit snugly inside a standard gardenia or should I try and modify the nozzle to fit a stock pipe or tube?
Yes, but I can't remember where...

I think the launch tube was from a tunnel tent, you know, the aluminium pipes that you stick into each other and bend to keep the tent up.

Awful explenation... :oops:
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HenningNT wrote:
Tim Chen wrote:Has anyone heard of a launch tube being used with a Gardenia Style Launcher? Is there a common tube which will fit snugly inside a standard gardenia or should I try and modify the nozzle to fit a stock pipe or tube?
Yes, but I can't remember where...

I think the launch tube was from a tunnel tent, you know, the aluminium pipes that you stick into each other and bend to keep the tent up.

Awful explenation... :oops:
Good suggestions!

But........... I was just given a busted Golf club that's made from composites. It's hollow inside and fits perfectly in my nozzle. I am going to PL glue it inside the launcher and see how it works!
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Gotta love recycling!
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HenningNT wrote:Gotta love recycling!
Be careful when working with this stuff. When I was handling the broken shaft I got a sliver of the carbon under my skin on my finger and I couldn't get it out. It broke into small bits and there was no way I could pick it out with tweezers. I went to my urgent care where a doctor cut the skin open and cleaned it out. This stuff is nasty to work with!
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Reminds me of how optical fiber can enter the body, and travel about within the veins... A colleague of mine got some in his hand, and it surfaced on his back a while later. Unpleasant stuff...
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HenningNT wrote:Reminds me of how optical fiber can enter the body, and travel about within the veins... A colleague of mine got some in his hand, and it surfaced on his back a while later. Unpleasant stuff...
That sounds painful, and dangerous. What would happen of that had made it to his heart? Or got stuck in his brain?
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Tim Chen wrote:Has anyone heard of a launch tube being used with a Gardenia Style Launcher? Is there a common tube which will fit snugly inside a standard gardenia or should I try and modify the nozzle to fit a stock pipe or tube?
Here is my solution:

15mm launchtube for gardena-profi-nozzle with spezial-batkiter-highspeednozzle.

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Batkiter wrote:
Tim Chen wrote:Has anyone heard of a launch tube being used with a Gardenia Style Launcher? Is there a common tube which will fit snugly inside a standard gardenia or should I try and modify the nozzle to fit a stock pipe or tube?
Here is my solution:

15mm launchtube for gardena-profi-nozzle with spezial-batkiter-highspeednozzle.

Regards Batkiter
Thanks for the pictures. Can I ask what are those white pieces and where did you get them?
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How does the copper pipe attach to the white piece? How do you stop it from leaking there?
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Andromeda wrote:
Batkiter wrote:
Tim Chen wrote:Has anyone heard of a launch tube being used with a Gardenia Style Launcher? Is there a common tube which will fit snugly inside a standard gardenia or should I try and modify the nozzle to fit a stock pipe or tube?
Here is my solution:

15mm launchtube for gardena-profi-nozzle with spezial-batkiter-highspeednozzle.

Regards Batkiter
Thanks for the pictures. Can I ask what are those white pieces and where did you get them?
Hi Andromeda!

The withe "pieces" on end of the pipe is a special part made by Batkiter, means, it is a checkvalve inside the part.

Mainreason: No water in the airhose and the airpressure is kompletly in the rocketbody, not into the hose!

Regards Batkiter
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xenon wrote:How does the copper pipe attach to the white piece? How do you stop it from leaking there?
Hi Xenon!

The "withe piece" is a special part of nozzle, made by Batkiter. Longversion, with malehead from Gardena-Profi.
These nozzle is exactly 0,02mm bigger than the outside diameter from the pipe. 15,02mm. Therefor: no space for leaking!
It works perfekt!

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