http://members.cox.net/lvrbgun/rbguns.html
Boy howdy, that's a lot more fancy, and one Hell of a lot more
complicated than the ones we made when I was a kid.
We used a chunk of wood maybe 2-3 inches wide, maybe 1/2-3/4 inch
thick, and anywhere from about 6 inches to about a foot long. In other
words, anything we could find. A nail about 2-3 inches from one end,
sticking out an inch or so - that was the "trigger". Then 2 or 3 tire
tube rubber bands held the clothes pinin place. You opened the clothes
pin to clamp one end of an inner tube rubber band, then looped the other
end around the "front" of the gun. To shoot, you squeezed the "trigger"
and opened the clothes pin enough to releast the rubber band. Don't run
with one of these, you'll put your eye out. LOL
We used to make darts, using a corncob with 3 feathers stuck in one
end, and a nail, with the sharp end pointing out, in the other end.
These were perfectly safe. And, would stick in the side of the corn
crib very nicely.
JOAT
You'll never get anywhere if you believe what you "hear". What do you
"know"?.
- Granny Weatherwax
J T wrote:
> http://members.cox.net/lvrbgun/rbguns.html
>
> Boy howdy, that's a lot more fancy, and one Hell of a lot more
> complicated than the ones we made when I was a kid.
Here's a set of plans for a rubber band Gatling gun. Takes about three
bucks' worth of pine.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8268964692
If you have $400, here's the ultimate rubber band machine gun:
http://www.backyardartillery.com/machinegun/
"J T" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> http://members.cox.net/lvrbgun/rbguns.html
>
> Boy howdy, that's a lot more fancy, and one Hell of a lot more
> complicated than the ones we made when I was a kid.
>
> We used a chunk of wood maybe 2-3 inches wide, maybe 1/2-3/4 inch
> thick, and anywhere from about 6 inches to about a foot long. In other
> words, anything we could find. A nail about 2-3 inches from one end,
> sticking out an inch or so - that was the "trigger". Then 2 or 3 tire
> tube rubber bands held the clothes pinin place. You opened the clothes
> pin to clamp one end of an inner tube rubber band, then looped the other
> end around the "front" of the gun. To shoot, you squeezed the "trigger"
> and opened the clothes pin enough to releast the rubber band. Don't run
> with one of these, you'll put your eye out. LOL
>
> We used to make darts, using a corncob with 3 feathers stuck in one
> end, and a nail, with the sharp end pointing out, in the other end.
> These were perfectly safe. And, would stick in the side of the corn
> crib very nicely.
>
>
>
> JOAT
> You'll never get anywhere if you believe what you "hear". What do you
> "know"?.
> - Granny Weatherwax
>
To JOAT
I as a youngster made rubber band machine guns. Attached a string on top of
the board and made several notches for bands. String was laid down in the
notches and bands loaded. Lift slowly and you had a single shot, lift fast
and you had a machine gun.
Yah, that Rubber Band Gatling Gun is something else, at $395, it should be.
Our whole group won't have been able to come up with that kind of jack. As
someone else said, ours was made entirely from scrap, free. Some of us had
ones with double or even triple triggers. Great times. I am surprised that
the PC Police would allow anyone to have anything of this nature now. Can't
even play TAG!
Walt Conner