I was fooling around with my massive K'nex collection a while back, and I accidentally stumbled upon a design for a repeated fire rubber band gun! I'd seen many wooden rubber band guns in the past and I've always wanted to make one based on the same design, but I never figured it out... until now... BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! (sorry, that' wasn't supposed to be out loud)
Anyway... I now had a fully functioning lock and I quickly built a pistol around it. After that I built another gun with two locks side-by-side, effectively building a double barrel rifle. I was happy with this for a while but soon wanted a shot gun, so I slightly modified my lock design to be tougher and to handle a heaver load and then attached that to a 5 barreled short-rifle frame design. This allowed me to load 5 rubber bands onto the one lock for a single-shot of 5 "bullets".
This is the pistol. It has three little black clip thingies up on the end so I can load three rubber bands simultaneously plus more underneath them to be fired later :-)
The double-barreled rifle. Each of the two locks can hold two shots for a total of four consecutive shots.
All those rubber bands on the side are extra ammo. If you look closely at the top you can see the two side-by-side wheels (they're the white things sticking up on the top) that the rubber bands are loaded onto.
This is the shot gun. It has 5 hooky thingies on the end and one lock so I can fire 5 shots at once. at about 30-40 feet out I get a body-sized spread of bullets. Unfortunately, the combined elasticity of more than 5 rubber bands would break the lock if I had more than one load on, so I made this gun only capable of carrying one load at a time.
All three together for size comparison. Each one carries at least three loads of extra ammo attached to it's side. The Pistol has 3 extra loads, the Rifle has 9 extra loads, and the Shot-gun has 6 extra loads.
Here's a video of me explaining how the lock works:
-Graydon L
2 comments:
Booooo! I want to see mass Jonny exterminations carried out via. K'Nex generated rubber-band projectiles. You don't even fire it in the video...
I do have an idea though: Spy: KNex Edition! For all of those people that thought that the original Spy was not gratuitous enough, behold the version where instead of throwing around fake bullets, we throw around real rubber-bands! I think I even have a sound effect for rubber-bands thwap-ing into soft flesh...
BEHOLD! THE RUBBISHER!!! (Rubber-Punisher)
I'll see what I can do ;-)
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