Im looking for an old school CO2 horn, it was like an asa for an co2 bottle it had a lever handle plunger and a horn on the side anybody has one send me a pic and lets talk price thanks fellas!
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I'd like to see a picture of one of these. I have a few brass horns I want to rig together with a valve, and an asa for this exact thing. But I want 3 or 4 horns bolted together, all different sizes, and all different reeds to make a true brown note war horn. -
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One thing to keep in mind is that the pressure straight from a CO2 tank or screw-in HPA tank, is way too high for most of these horns. More pressure doesn't make them "louder", it makes them sound awful- part squeak, part high-pitched warble, and mostly badly-dented tuba as played by a worn-out leafblower.
You need to feed them no more than about 100-150 PSI. The ones I played with sounded best- and loudest- at about 110-120 psi. Much above that and they started adding a squeak-fart that got worse as the pressure rose.
AND... at 110 PSI or so, you WILL need hearing protection. Using a decibel meter, these things could easily break 120 Db, which is approaching "jet taking off" and "rifle fire". Unless you're trying to reach a cross a 50-acre, heavily wooded field, I suggest dropping it back to 50-60 PSI. That's more than enough for any typical speedball/airball field.
Or, at the very least, invest in some earplugs.
Related anecdote: A friend of mine had some kids in one of the local hockey teams. And it was some tradition that when a goal was made, you shouted, yelled and rang cowbells, etc. in celebration.
He asked me one day of the cans that came with boat air horns could be refilled, like I do with (at the time) my CO2 tanks. I said no, those used freon or something like it, stored as a liquid. And looking at the horns, there was no easy way to adapt them to fit on a CO2 tank.
So, I dug out the two little horns I had- and I think I still have- and with a boxful of random pipe fittings, made The Horn Of Doom. Two small horns, hooked through a 12-ounce CO2 tank, a Palmer's Stabilizer, and a blowgun lever valve... Actually, I think it might have been a small 1/4-turn ball valve, now that I think about it. I recall rigging a spring to make the "trigger" self resetting.
Anyway, he takes it to the next hockey game, and comes back afterward with a nearly empty tank. He told me that, halfway through the game (which his kids' team won) the play-by-play announcer said, over the PA: "Whoever has that horn, would you please stop blowing it!"
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so way back like 2002 i worked at a field as a ref and we had a couple of these, they didn't seem home made, they seemed like a product. both were the same and like described it looked like a vasa with a plunger handle with a small bit of rubber on the end and a horn out the side hole. I really thought they were in wide use but maybe i was wrong.Comment
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BWAAAAAAAAAAA!
I remember these from 30 years ago at some smaller fields where I playedComment
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the first field i ever played at had these - screwed onto a 3.5oz tank at the time had silver horn looking thing -they worked great and were LOUD just had a plunger attached to the lever handle so you could just grab it.
bacci paintball bought all the rentals etc from that guy years ago and may have them or some version of them - shoot him an e-mailComment
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