Miniature guns are novelty custom, unique, and sometime downright crude! Common construction materials often include pill bottles or pens. Show us your work!
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Novacastrian
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Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:33 pm
This just a small q-tip shooter i made a while back, breech loaded and made from Acrylic ( Don't drop it! ) I can shoot a q-tip with a metal tip ( bit of bicycle spoke) about 10 metres, although it has to fit "just right" to do so.
The chambers capacity is only 22ml and it only takes like 1/2 a cc of butane to fire. The barrel is around 350mm long.
It looks uber cool at night when you get to see the flame on all it's glory
Hope you likey.

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potatoflinger
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Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:44 pm
Nice gun, you just keep making some really nice minis, keep up the good work!
It's hard to soar with eagles when you're working with turkeys.
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Whoa, very nice, but I think you may get better performance with a shorter barrel, it looks a bit too long for that chamber.
I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.
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Insomniac
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Im guessing about half. Or make a bigger chamber.

I love shooting minis with clear barrels at night, it looks like a neon tube

I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.
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Fnord
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Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:38 pm
I think the barrel is probably about right for the chamber size, actually. Maybe cutting off about 1/4 might help, but half might reduce prefomance.
Oh, and it looks goood:):)
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Awwww... nicely machined there, honestly, your facilities are going to be the envy of this forum

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f.c
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Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:16 pm
loverlie i remember making acyrilic stuff in grade 8. i should have machined myself some barrels.
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Novacastrian
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Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:37 pm
Acrylic barrel or "Tube" as it is called can be purchased online i believe, don't ask me where though as i would not have a clue

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ammosmoke
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Go to usplastic.com!! TADA! I would recommend getting polycarbonate instead of acrylic, because it is much stronger and can easily survive shock. IE getting dropped. And yes, it is just as easy to machine.
EDIT: Just to make things easier for you...
polycarbonate tube
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benstern
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Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:00 am
Wow. Acrylic is pretty expensive to use as a building material. Use it for hybrid rocket motors, not spudguns.
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TwitchTheAussie
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Haha sweet man. Me likey very much. Keep up the good work

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