Catapult Out of Two Paper Clips

Step 4 Using it

To put it all together:

1. Double-loop the rubber band, then slip it onto the short end of the throwing arm.

2. Put the rubber band onto the base.

3. Put the pivots of the throwing arm into the hooks of the base. The rubber band should hold it firmly in place.

4. Put your fingers as shown in the second picture.

5. Carefully load the paper wad onto the long end of the throwing arm.

6. Let go of the throwing arm and watch the paper wad fly!

Comments

[catinyoursoup]

wrap tape around the end of the throwing arm to make a basket

[riguy98]

Booooooooobies

[TheOmegaGears]

where

[an1153]

huh

[TheOmegaGears]

yeaaah ive seen that picture in a book somewhere

[mitch and sean]

I really liked this, simple and fun (except for the pliers bit but you can't heve everything) good work!

[steelerssuck]

nice. some wires a pancake and some gun powder should do the trick to make it awesome-er-er...er............what ever

[sarcasm man]

this is awesome! with a little duct-tape and an old bionicle rubber band mine flies pretty far, and its even mini-er!

[drewboy190]

mines the wort shape ever but fires about 3 yards without mods! its great! can i plz mod it???

[nutsandbolts_64]

according to CC license by-nc-sa, you can tweak it and whatever, just acknowledge that the guy who originally made it and you can't use it for commercial purposes. also it should be of the same license.

[1234567]

i know that this may be a little disgusting but unused braces bands
could potentially be used

[jeffconnelly]

No, it's only disgusting if they're USED braces bands ;-)

[Slyguy]

awesome catapult, I used a small hair band and cut it up and tied it on. Just to let you know I pulled the arm back the opposite way and had a lot of power behind it. But all in all great project I've ever found so far on this web site. :)

[yourcat]

I've tried pulling it back the other way, but it always slams it into the ground for me. If you can get it to work, good for you!

[alex4646]

try putting a stopper, thos usually help

[soulcalibur]

oh!!!!!!! apparently the paper clips have to be the same size!!!!! well i just wasted about 10 minutes of my dagum life. thank you very much. maybe you should call the instructable "how to make a catapult out of two same-sized paper clips". i'm ticked off now -.-

[makattack09]

I'm sorry but, it is kind of common sense that if you look at the material picture the paper clips are the same size. Maybe you should pay more attention to detail when building something.

[matthewja]

This is an excellent tutorial. Very well written. Good job!

[nuttycase]

cool instuctable but it was hard to do all those bends with only my fingers. did some extra ajustments to it and it turned out awesome.

[ampeyro]

it's great, u think would work with1cm diameter bars?

[matthewja]

Planning to make an actual catapault, eh?

[yourcat]

Theoretically, yes, but It'd be pretty hard.

[unicycler]

Cool instructable. Catapult in class here i come!

[dragonoid294]

u sould see mine it is all deformed and bent and it only launches the paper 1 inch

[free_wanderer]

Great Instructable :) mine went at least 8-9ft ;) i used giant paper clips.