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xxkid123 Past Moderator Offline Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4807 new to california Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #990 - Aug 4^th, 2009 at 6:04pm ...
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xxkid123 Past Moderator Offline Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4807 new to california Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #992 - Aug 4^th, 2009 at 6:06pm and a rockman sling with a 4 strand braid (2 strands woven and folded in half for loop, 4 strands braided) EDIT: oops, accidentally forgot to re size it
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Et Cetera Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks Into Windows! Posts: 1553 Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #993 - Aug 4^th, 2009 at 6:31pm I like your duct tape sling. It looks nice and simple.
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Aussie Past Moderator Offline Joined Nov. 1, 2006 Luke 14:14 Posts: 3265 Melbourne, Australia Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #994 - Aug 6^th, 2009 at 8:11am You've seen mrboss imbed a railroad spike into a metal door. How about imbedding a tennis ball into brick wall? (And no the photo wasn't rigged just a genuine fluke.)
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adsi Funditor Offline throwing rocks with slings Posts: 506 wales ,the land of dragons Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #995 - Aug 6^th, 2009 at 11:00am cool!!
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xxkid123 Past Moderator Offline Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4807 new to california Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #996 - Aug 6^th, 2009 at 11:23am lol, so how did you do that? or does genuine fluke mean something...
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Et Cetera Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks Into Windows! Posts: 1553 Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #997 - Aug 6^th, 2009 at 12:16pm How did that work?
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Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging
Reply #998 - Aug 6^th, 2009 at 5:45pm

xxkid123 wrote on Aug 6^th, 2009 at 11:23am:

lol, so how did you do that? or does genuine fluke mean something...

Sorry, fluke may be an Australianism not generally understood in the US. It means a highly unsual accidental event.

There is a fairly large vertical gap between the bricks where the mortar has fallen out and the ball was already ruptured when I slung it. The loose bit just happened to imbed itself into the gap so the ball got stuck, a one in a million shot. It's been in there for well over a week and I am curious how long before it falls out.

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walter Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2453	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #999 - Aug 6^th, 2009 at 10:22pm Still impressive Aussie! Do you usually hole tennis balls that you're going to use for sling ammo? walter
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walter Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2453	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #1000 - Aug 6^th, 2009 at 10:26pm My latest golf/tennis ball slinger. Yarn over an eight strand hemp core. [URL=http://www.glowfoto.com/user_imageredirect.php?iid=2725701][IMG]http://img4.glowfoto.com/images/2009/08/06-1958417548M.jpg[/IMG][/URL] walter
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Reply #1001 - Aug 6^th, 2009 at 11:00pm

walter wrote on Aug 6^th, 2009 at 10:22pm:

Still impressive Aussie! Do you usually hole tennis balls that you're going to use for sling ammo?

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Not deliberately but I have yet to find a tennis ball that doesn't eventually rupture from the pounding it gets when thrown repeatedly against a hard wall. The ball in the picture was already fairly badly ruptured and due to be thrown out. If the ball was still intact I doubt it would have been able to squeeze down enough to stay in the crack which is only around 3/4" wide. Still the photo looks good.

Superficially tennis balls appear to be constructed like baseballs, ie. from two figure 8 like halves. In fact only the felt is applied that way. Underneath is an ordinary hollow rubber ball moulded in two hemispherical halves which are welded or glued together. It is this joint which fails. Quality balls will last several hundred or even a thousand shots; the cheapies will sometimes rupture on the first. Still if you only throw them so they land on grass they're OK, but for throwing against a returning wall reasonable quality is required.

BTW an easy way to increase the weight of a tennis ball is to inject some water into it with a hypodermic needle. It also reduces the amount of spin as the water inside can't be spun up by the release much the same as it's virtually impossible to spin a raw egg. Can be of use if you're getting a lot of distance robbing topspin.

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Reply #1002 - Aug 7^th, 2009 at 11:06am

[quote author=walter link=1172017416/990#1000 date=1249611985]My latest golf/tennis ball slinger. Yarn over an eight strand hemp core.

[URL=http://www.glowfoto.com/user_imageredirect.php?iid=2725701][IMG]http://img4.glowfoto.com/images/2009/08/06-1958417548M.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

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oh my god that that thing is beautiful :o. make more of those and you'll be able to sell those or trade them

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walter Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2453	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #1003 - Aug 7^th, 2009 at 11:25pm Aussie, thanks for the info! I really like the water idea. Thanks kid! walter
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Camo-sling Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Forge your own path. Posts: 1419 Australia Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #1004 - Aug 8^th, 2009 at 3:39am another perfect sling walter! Where are the instructions on how to make a core sling with a covering like that one?
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