Indy Mogul
Wesley's Weekly HOW TO: Flag Gun Part I
You requested it, so i'm doing it. The Flag Gun.
I got some plastic sheeting like is used for covering the ground when you're painting, and I cut a rectangle off the edge of it.
Next I attached the plastic rectangle to a wooden dowel using some super glue.
I then painted it with some acrylic paint, and set it aside to dry.
I found this really thick cardboard tube, I think it may have been a postal shipping tube, you need a relatively strong tube for this, a paper towel tube might work, but I think it would have to be reinforced, maybe with some plaster.
I then poked three holes along the top of the cylinder that is going to be the "barrel" of the gun.
In these holes I threaded three rubber bands, and hot glued them into the holes.
I then hot glued the other ends of the rubber bands to the base of the flag.
But not before I had already glued a string onto the bottom of it so I could pull it into the tube.
For the handle, I just used a toliet paper tube that I cut to fit snuggly against the main tube.
Then it was just a matter of painting it, and sticking the PVC coupling I found to the front. Next week, stay tuned, because i'm going to build a full triggering mechanism for this that can be modified to work on any elastic based release system.
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