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so I got an idea for a spring powered impact bomb
it uses a clothes pin with the fulcrum enlarged with a dowel so the handles have more movement when flinging bbs, a rubber band strengthens the spring power, and the thing is held open with 1/2" cpvc that snaps off on impact.
and of course I made a prototype yes it's crude, ugly yeah, hideous maybe, but its still a piece of crap






it needs improvement of course

http://s30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/ ... CF1045.flv
the clicking is my brother playing halo, you can't see the launched bbs very well but you can see how they scatted when i go to clean up with the camera still on.

i dont quit see how it works, but it looks cool nonetheless.

in that case its time for a DIAGRAM

let me explain abit more the thing is clip on the pipe barely and the momentom of the clothes pin give it the force to slide off the cpvcthat sides closes the other open; riping the toilet paper an flinging bbs

what the hell is that?

im just kidding, simple and effective, i like it, but maybe it would be more powerful if you removed the spring in the clip it's self.

i see how it works now, thanks.

Yea I agree, my first thought was remove the spring in the clip. Though I don't quite understand how it's impact-triggered.

maybe it would be more powerful if you removed the spring in the clip it's self

why it just adds force to the clip

that spring is only made to push together those two points it acully adapts to the newer targer fulcrum, so the clothes pin is still usable even if I have a dowel in their
if you still aren't convinced I'll remove the rubber band, or you can try it yourself. I'm doing this to avoid silly argument
and like I said the momentom of the clip makes it go fowrdad and off the pipe when the cardboard tube hits the target