My Lego Rubberband Gatling Gun

[vinceaantju]

i always wanted to make a lego gatling gun but i did never know how to build one, but watching this movie i know how to make one.

Tanks!

[Bhumtanaphun]

Very fast to shot. but, too slow for reload and low accury and range

[XXTheHacker]

only if i had enough legos i would build one

[Therichardhiggins]

omg

[st0rmforce]

I've made a new chaingun

I made a video, found a few things wrong with it, took it down and put up a new one.

You can see it by clicking the video response above

[st0rmforce]

Hi everyone,

thanks for the comments. Ive been busy for a while but ive found time to completely redesign. My new one still has 6 barrels, but is smaller with a lighter firing mechanism which makes it more accurate and higher rate of fire.

Video coming soon

[EURO565]

you should reduce the number of barrels and make each barrel longer to increase the accuracy. anyway sick idea 5/5

[robostomo1]

y dont u load mor bands per barrel then u gotta nice gun ^_^

[pedroacp]

only make the barrel rotate to the other side

then the "trigger" must go to the other side

[pedroacp]

a great work

but...

if you use your right hand to shot, why did you not invert the rotatory and shooting mechanisnm?

[st0rmforce]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean...

but I think what you're saying is what I did after I mande this. I changed it to fire before it got to the support.

it's in bits now though, I'll rebuild it one day

[theinsekt]

Looks cool! How many rubber bands can it be loaded with?

[st0rmforce]

I usually do 36.I have loaded 48 but getting 8 on each is hard. The only bands I've got in any quantity are quite thick and I just can't fit many on.

I'm going to try to find some smaller ones and see how many I can get on it.

I can see 60 easily if I can get my hands on the right bands

[st0rmforce]

I don't know how long I'm gonna keep this gun

I have ideas for other things and this is near enough all my technic.

I'll probably make some plans before I take it apart though.

[exxclusif]

still.... nice system :P but the rope system miniguns look realisticer :P

[st0rmforce]

Just thought I'd mention

I could make this look better if I had double the amount of lego that I have

I may try a rope type some time

[exxclusif]

another tip... at 1.30 you can see it good... your system is blocking... the rubberbands shoot against the gun itselfs

[st0rmforce]

Yeah I only noticed that when I was making this video.

I'm still working on this quite a bit.

since filming I've changed the trigger mechanism so now it fires more to the right of centre.

[exxclusif]

i saw it :P (the fireing pin pushes those parts.... the parts rotate... then the parts lock back on :P but still... the rope fireing system can hold more shots :P but still... NICE you made somthing that almoast nobody does :P

[exxclusif]

wtf how the fireing system works? i only know the rope system

[st0rmforce]

at 1:58 you can see it best. the bit with my thumb on is what you catch the bands on. the blue bit i got my other finger on is the trigger. raise the trigger, it lets one band go.

in the slo-mo bit (about 1:30) you can see being fired. theres a trigger thing that raises and hits the triggers as they spin past.