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I made this fun rubber band gun in a weekend and made a video of the build along with an instructable (http://www.instructables.com/id/Gatling-Rubber-Band-Machine-Gun-Easy-Weekend-Proje/) with step by step instructions and free printable templates so others could make this fun project too. I had a fun time making this project, and my kids have a fun time playing with it (ok, so do I).

I made a few other guns before this one, testing out different things before I finally landed on this design. Some of my other guns used metal hardware for the hand crank (bearings and screw rods etc…), but I really wanted to get it made completely out of wood and still have a smooth hand crank, and this design fits the bill nicely.

I hope other have as much fun making this as I did.

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Welcome to LJ! I love those rubber band machine guns ;-) Thanks for the link ;-)
 

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Good job. Looks like fun.

Welcome to Lumberjocks
 

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I didn,t like the hard core sound ;) but you have made a good video and also clearly instructions. I also like the gun. Thank you for sharing.
 

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That is a neat project. I have a plastic one that I bought at a craft sale.
I also like the build video and the attached videos on the lever action rubber band gun and the fully automatic one.

Thanks for sharing. ...............Jim
 

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Thanks for the welcome everyone! I have made some other rubber band machine guns that I may try to lay out as well. There is a semi-automatic machine gun that uses the spoke wheel to fire rubber bands 1 at a time (it can only hole about 20ish rubber bands at a time though). I made one for my 2 oldest boys and they are fun, but this gatling gun is obviously funner :)
 

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Thanks for sharing this! I've wanted to make one of these for a long time…
 

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Too cool. Just the thing to get me in trouble with all the relatives. Nice work.
 

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Welcome to Lumberjocks and what a great project to start with!
 

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Awesome i gotta make a couple of these

And welcome to LJ's you will love it here
 

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I love it. I'm glad you owned up to playing with it, because I was going to call you out if you tried to deny it. :)
 

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I love it. I m glad you owned up to playing with it, because I was going to call you out if you tried to deny it. :)

- CharlieM1958
Yeah, I think I just tell my wife that it's for the kids so she lets me spend more money and time on these projects than I should, but they are usually for me :)
 

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That is incredible. Nice job and welcome to LJ's!
 

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Very interesting! I like to have one. Looks like a fun machine.

I would like to offer this rubber band advice:
Basic science in shooting a rubber band
The rubber band will go further if there is rotation in the motion.
In northern hemisphere, the rotation is counter clockwise (right handed golfer would be a draw).
To create that motion the left side should have more tension to the opposite side.

Try it & compare to equal tension. Which version will go further?
 

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Ohhh, that's awesome.Thnx for the link. I've gotta build a few o these.
 

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Great looking Gatling gun! If you mount it on a Cobra helicopter model drone, you could fly it around and fire rubber bands at your neighbors!
 

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So powerfull, should go with warning.
 
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