Another project u can do, just what u need, is make your own 3d printed tripod,

Well I haven't found the tripod bag, but I did find another bag of slings

This one holds the new aerofoils perfectly, plus its heavy enough to feel right when swinging with such lightweight objects.

Again, I'm sorry I have no idea who made it.

Tomas maybe ?

Someone with smaller fingers than me anyway. It's a tight finger loop.
I've got a few all leather slings, always liked this one. Should work well for this.
Plus you can see by the length of the pouch that it would take a larger aerofoil just as easily.
I've had a couple practice throws in the workshop (another advantage of flexible ammo lol) and both holds the aerofoils really secure during even a slow windup and releases perfectly as well.

Not sure I'll get it all together tonight, but hopefully this week.

Although I'll probably take the new aerofoils for a test throw and live 'crunch' test

Right, I reckon these are probably going to be the final item.
Don't realistically want them any larger.
The 30 odd grams weight feels nice and is heavy enough to work in a variety of slings.

The 8 slots should be enough to give sufficient lift for fun, but hopefully also get a bit more distance.

The fact that these 6 took 16 hours to make, means I'm not going to be running these off everyday.
So assuming they're dog proof, they should be infinitely reusable.
They're certainly not going to be damaged any other way, polyurethane is double tough !

@iron goober. This was your idea, have you got access to a tpu capable 3d printer ? If not, bung me your address and I'll ship a couple across

Attached the last two designs to the post.
35x60x9 = 4mm thick walls at the base and 1mm at the top. Overall height of 60mm and diameter of 43mm (35mm is the internal diameter) Oh and it has 12 slots, including the weird shaped ones at the top - no I don't know why i thought it was 9 either

the 35x60x8 - has 5mm base walls and 1.5mm top walls, so it's 45mm total diameter, 60mm tall and has 8 slots arranged around the middle.
I currently have no clue how they will fly

I included the 35x60x9 - simply because if the new ones don't dodge the ground, I know they will
And that's a fun game

The next question is: can i be arsed to go back and make some fins for the clay toruseses ?
Dunno, I'll think about it.

I'm also going to make a couple these out of pet-g - it's nowhere near as tough as tpu, but it is a lot chewier than pla.
And prints faster - so we'll field test those as well.

The other thing it might be worth trying out is nylon.
Now nylon is a right bastard to print, and i don't have any that works anyway. But it is tough !
I did look at trying some carbon fibre infused nylon as it's supposed to print a lot better - but damn that stuff is pricey ! So I'll see if I can score any at the tct show at the end of september.
Sometimes stuff throws itself into my backpack as I walk past stalls, I blame poltergeists- so we'll see  

If I make it to ibiza, I'll bring some with me.
Watching someone trying to throw these from a stiff split pouch sling, should be interesting.
Plus it's something else apart from stones, that you can use a sling for.

Took the new ones for a walk today.
Meh, they go straight. But nothing great.

Also they fly best with a moderate speed throw.
Best throw was probably about 40 metres.

They were chew proof.
But no fun.

So I think I’ll go back to the 12 slot design, keep the slightly thicker tail and drop the base back to 4mm.

That should make them relatively chew proof, but still keep the fun factor.

Without the active lift, they’re pretty boring

With it they’re a fun new type of ammo.

Curious Aardvark wrote on Aug 31^st, 2021 at 11:15am:


Not sure how I missed this.  Yes, I do have a printer, but haven't tried TPU  yet. I've only done PLA and PET+. But my nozzle should go to 260C. I think I might just try them in PLA first. 

Are you going to put up a video of you slinging these?

Slinging Yoyoz thats awesome

Yoyo sling would be easy to make with a set of drill based hole saws.

Cut 2 40mm discs and one 20 and just glue together. The central drill hole should make it easy to get the balance right.
5 minutes with sand paper.

You could also cut a couple 30mm X 3mm and glue to the outside to give a bit more central weight.

You want the centre groove the same thickness as your cord. So 3mm plywood for that and cut the outer discs from a 1x4 bit of Pine shelving.
A bit if Dowling the same size as the central drill to hold it all together and aligned while the glue dried and you could probably knock these out in a few minutes.

This is all you need and some sand paper
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rolson-58129-Holesaw-Set-Pieces/dp/B003UDFHL6/ref=mp_s_...

That'll be it, cheers

Looks like I designed the thing, then got sidetracked and probably never made one.

Might have to see about making one of those mushroom shape acentric ones as well.

Reminds me of a space ship or space station from a film or tv series.
Just can't remember which one

Make it in 2 parts and try and keep the weights even.

How do you work out the volume of an ellipsoid ,?