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Clothes Pin Gun
Aug 17th, 2008 at 7:52pm
 
As a child almost 60 years ago the clothes pin gun was all the rage.  Our favorite ammunition was the heads of kitchen matches, the non-safety type.  Made a flaming arc as it flew from the gun. We never told out mothers.
 A. Take apart a spring type pin and file the edge at right angles to the body of pin  as shown
 B.  Re-assemble as shown with barrel of spring on outside.
 C.  Arm gun with half of other clothes pin
 D.  Wedge ammunition in proper place
 E.  Fire gun by pushing back on barrel of spring
Small bits of the rest of the match as well as anything that fits in the pin can also be used.  
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Use safely.  Don't start any fires.  Tony
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Reply #1 - Aug 17th, 2008 at 8:19pm
 
Our usual use for clothspins was as the trigger mechanism for rubber-band guns.   I don't mean the sissy things that shoot office-type rubber bands; I mean rubber bands cut from tire tubes.    Way back then, tires almost all had tubes, and the tubes were made out of nice, stretchy rubber.
Cut about a 1" wide band and stretch it back several feet....It would give you a healthy whack!
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Reply #2 - Aug 18th, 2008 at 7:16am
 
we used to make matchstik guns from a half clothes peg a couple of elastic bands and a matchbox.
Never seen your design before asemery. Interesting - I'll have to nick a clothes peg and give it a go with some swan vestas match heads (non-safety).
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Reply #3 - Aug 18th, 2008 at 8:31am
 
can you shoot little paper props aswell??
cos' my holyday is over:( and now I gotto go to school again and somthing small that schoots paper props to the otherside of the classroom always comes in handy  Grin
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Reply #4 - Aug 18th, 2008 at 8:32am
 
Bikewer wrote on Aug 17th, 2008 at 8:19pm:
Our usual use for clothspins was as the trigger mechanism for rubber-band guns.   I don't mean the sissy things that shoot office-type rubber bands; I mean rubber bands cut from tire tubes.    Way back then, tires almost all had tubes, and the tubes were made out of nice, stretchy rubber.
Cut about a 1" wide band and stretch it back several feet....It would give you a healthy whack!



and you've never used a hand catapult until you've made one from an inner tube rubber band....
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Reply #5 - Aug 18th, 2008 at 11:02am
 
Quite right.   When I was a kid (1950s) we never heard of a commercially-made slingshot (catapult) until the "Wham-O" job was marketed.   All of ours were made from tire-tube rubber and traditional forked tree branches.

It was a big disappointment when the tire makers started using "butyl" rubber for tubes.  Stuff just didn't stretch!
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Reply #6 - Aug 18th, 2008 at 3:30pm
 
Paper wads are also good ammunition.  They sting when they hit you.  This is a sneaky apparatus which can easily be held in your hand.  Tony
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Reply #7 - Aug 19th, 2008 at 9:49pm
 
how does it fire after being cocked
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Reply #8 - Aug 20th, 2008 at 5:46am
 
Step E.  Push back (towards rubber band) on barrel of spring to release bar of spring from the right angle you filed
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Reply #9 - Aug 21st, 2008 at 2:15pm
 
Paper wasps are always fun Cheesy

hurt alot haha
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Reply #10 - Aug 24th, 2008 at 1:42pm
 
I must be very simple minded because I have no concept of how this works.
How is it held?
What is actually being cocked?
Does the projectile fly out of the side?


Pretend you are speaking to a total idiot
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Reply #11 - Aug 24th, 2008 at 1:45pm
 
Nevermind I got. The spring unhooks and kicks out the ammo right.
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Reply #12 - Aug 24th, 2008 at 5:17pm
 
That's right dork. Sorry for the confusion. 
The projectile flies out in front of the gripping end of the clothes pin.  The stronger the spring the farther the projectile goes.  Tony
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