That's a cool thought. Alright, since there are two new members, I figured you guys would like a recap of what's been going on.
The formula will take a while, but I will be able to complete a shooter within a couple months I believe. I have to become proficient with welding materials. As for the formula, I'm constantly toying with it. If you want to join in we'd be glad to have you. All we ask is that you ask as many questions as you want and that we should all be respectful, though we've never had any problems like that here.
So to recap what you've missed (I don't expect you to read all 20 web pages),
I'm white_widow and I started this after I was a spidey at a birthday party. Soon, thebatsam joined in. We toyed with the properties of adhesion and nylon. Shortly we realized that Nylon couldn't be kept in liquid form and nanoglue (our main glue) Was both difficult to obtain and needed to be kept at a high temperature.
Around this time spectacular23, stanleewannabe, symbioteman, and jma610 joined the project. We started toying around with solvents. The reason we didn't stick with shear thinning liquids by this point is because only some colloids have them, and scientists haven't found a trend yet. We made an entirely new formula. It had too many crosslinks (chemical bonds between monomers). Too many bonds will cause a substance to become brittle unless it is between a flexible monomer and a rigid one.
Finally, we began prototyping with cartridges. Jma created some good ones, and I created a shooter without cartridges. We started trying to design valves, because regular home depot valves don't cut it.
Finally, people started coming and going. Some talked about glue gun shooters and others about nylon glues. We split the forum into two topics.
So around this time, we have finally designed cartridges, shooter, valve, and started the formula. We have figured everything out, and now we are adding some extra feature designs. Soon we will be prototyping. Preferably, we would get a functional shooter by July 3rd, but that might be pushing it unless some of us go to college. I think the only ones in that age range are thebatsam, Stanleewannabe, and myself.
Now I have my question for you two: Why do you guys want to have the shooters? I'm just curious.
For Wadaltmon: The cartridge thing shouldn't be too hard. A standard pressurized can is really thin. It just depends on volume.