Posted on 01/16/2008 12:07:37 PM PST by Reaganesque
You've gotta admire folks who bring their trade to a whole new level, even if that does mean escalating the international arms race between builders of automated, wooden, rubber band miniguns. The 24-barrel, tripod-mountable monster you see above, lovingly known as the Disintegrator, was rather amazingly hand-carved and assembled by Anthony Smith of the UK, who spent four months on the ambitious build. Unlike your dinky little six-shooter, this model boasts a 288-band capacity and 40-round-per-second firing capability, making it one of the most dangerous weapons to remain unbanned by the TSA. To see this wonder in its full operational glory, you simply have to check out the video after the break.
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I like it. I used to keep one of the little six-shooters in my desk at work. When people came in and asked dumb tech questions (for the 10th time), I would shoot them.
Should have used a Kimber after the second stupid question. Would have prevented the other 8.
bump for home. Cant see youtube here and they don’t want me to see any pictures, I might accidentally see naked breasts or something - or God Forbid, I might actually see some news article they don’t want me to see
I have one of those Surefire pistols. Hmm. Thoughts are racing faster than I can lock onto them...
What's next...the 50psi air-compressor BB minigun? (Thinking, thinking)
Hey! We could send that in to Mythbusters!
All it took was a spring-type clothespin, a dowel pin and a piece of wood for the handle.
And for 50 cents you could buy a mother-lode bundle of ammunition (rubber bands) at the "Dime Store".
(Kresge's, Ben Franklin, Woolworth, etc.....all gone now)
Has that guy registered that weapon?
I MUST have one!!
It won’t be a myth after I build it ;)
Now, to add the air line and BB hopper...extra-large BB hopper...
Plus, you could shoot yer eye out.
And yes, a pre-model was done with propane, did make some of the cuts, but was just seen as being too 'cartoony' and was replaced by a blank firing monster that required a steel rig to keep the thing from flying backwards and was bent at the end of the scene from the force of firing.
If you have to ask...
My Mom had a whole list of "shot your eye out" type lines. Like the other "moms" in our neighborhood, she relied on time-tested scare stories to keep us from doing something she thought to be dangerous....and they pretty much worked. * OK so they nearly always worked (confession is good for the soul).
When us neighborhood kids were eating green apples with salt (nature's most nearly perfect "pick-em-and-eat-em food"), she tells us this horror story about a cousin who died from eating too many green apples. Some of her details of her story would make Edgar Allen Poe cringe.
She had a whole collection of "swimming" stories...enough to make you always shower as opposed to a sit-down bath...."you can drown in six inches of water". Technically, she should have run out of cousins at some point, but it never happened.
My Mom is now 91 years old and we still joke about this. She is quite lucid considering her age, and has a great/sharp sense of humor. She doesn't look anything like Estelle Getty, but she can deliver sharp retorts just as fast.
Estelle Getty, far laft in image:
Dang, it’s been done already. I should have known. But there’s nothing to keep me from tinkering on my own...
I bought my husband a 5 shot(rubber bands) pistol from ‘bits and pieces’ catalog. It came with a small target with numbers and they(my grandsons) have tournaments.
Odd fact. Estelle Getty was the youngest of the actresses.
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