Hobby Newb

Yeah pretty much. Do you have any recommendations for a starting point? Is there a field of employment out there I could simply contact and contract to build this device for me?

Hello science forum To cut right to the chase I am trying to build a device and have no idea where to start. I made this post here as I don’t even know which science sub-forum it would go in. I have tried searching on the internet for both ‘invention’ and ‘modification’ forums as they would likely be more suited to discussing my idea. However ‘invention’ as expected brought up nothing but results for patenting inventions and other tips for personal gain with inventions while ‘modification’ gave me a whole list of resources to do with the subject of video game mods. So here I am…. I will try to keep this as short as possible. Simply put I want to modify a standard scuba diving cylinder into a paint ‘cannon’ (for lack of a more serious or jazzy term). I have broken it down into the following steps The dive cylinder – Can it be modified, how? Who can do it? Etc The ‘cannon’ – Design? Spray variation? How and who? Etc Paint – What type of paint? Etc Don’t let the ‘cannon’ moniker fool you I really want it to be both a simple and compact device similar to what you would find on the end of a garden hose. The purpose of this device would of course be a fast high pressure out put of paint to cover any given surface. I know this exact invention/modification has worked with modifying large refillable fire extinguishers and thus I don’t see why it can’t be replicated with a scuba cylinder. Although I guess to replicate something you have to know how they did it… If anyone has any advice at all I would really appreciate it. Anything from a better internet forum to present this situation to or different factors you can think of to consider when building this device.