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  • Wesley's Weekly HOW TO: Flag Gun Part II

    POSTED BY WESLEY SCOGGINS, JULY 23 2008 01:41 AM | PERMALINK

    Last week I showed a very simple design for a Flag Ejecting Gun, this week i'm giving you something extra by showing you how to make a trigger mechanism for it so you can actually fire it without having to hold the pull string taunt all the time.

     
    First start out with a L-Brace you can get at your local hardware store, and a wooden dowel that can fit through it (it'll probably be a bit snug, that's exactly how you want it, you don't want it real loose. 
     

    Get a drill approximately the same...

  • Wesley's Weekly HOW TO: Flag Gun Part I

    POSTED BY WESLEY SCOGGINS, JULY 17 2008 07:03 AM | PERMALINK

     
    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...

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