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Mechanical Pencil Shooter

There are many pencil/pen shooters on instrucables, but this one is even simpler and just a good.
This is something I made during an unexciting class, and it sure added a lot more excitement.
I'm sure I'm not the first one to make this, because it is such a simple design.

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Step 1Materials

All you need to make your shooter is a normal BIC mechanical pencil and a rubber band (preferably small, but a regular one will work too).

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21 comments

Apr 22, 2007. 4:34 AMtoogood says:

soke the cotton bud in meths the fire it (it may get blown out in just about to try it)

Apr 22, 2007. 1:22 PMbsumner (author) says:

ahahaa, sounds like its worth a try

Apr 14, 2007. 8:55 AMtomonto says:

ya already been done on this site. search your idea before posting please and dont post a camera tazer

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Apr 17, 2007. 2:44 PMtrebuchet03 says:

there's always room for another one ;) If you don't want to read a variant on a theme - you're free to do so :D

Apr 15, 2007. 12:20 PMSgt.Waffles says:

dont post a camera tazer

AMEN to that!

Apr 14, 2007. 12:58 PMSgt.Waffles says:

I'm sure I'm not the first one to make this, because it is such a simple design

You said it yourself. Take it down.

Apr 14, 2007. 5:46 PMVertigo666 says:

Yay Waffles!

Apr 15, 2007. 10:32 AMSgt.Waffles says:

*bows to the crowd* Thankyou folks, ill be here all week. Try the veal, its great!

Apr 15, 2007. 11:36 AMVertigo666 says:

yay veal!

Apr 15, 2007. 12:08 PMSgt.Waffles says:

nothing ever tasted so sweet as the taste of a dead, defensless, baby cow.

Apr 15, 2007. 2:34 PMVertigo666 says:

How would you know?

Apr 15, 2007. 2:55 PMxXm4st4z3nXx says:

Well there is, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortolan_Bunting#Gastronomy , eating a small bird you have caught, force fed and drowned in brandy

Apr 16, 2007. 4:00 PMSgt.Waffles says:

mmmmmmm tasty!

Apr 15, 2007. 12:08 AMDash-2 says:

How.. do you shoot it? I don't get that part. Wouldn't the black tube fly out with everything else?

Apr 15, 2007. 8:29 PMbsumner (author) says:

Once you realease the black part, the end of it (eraser holder) is bigger than the clear tube and it stops the motion, therefore transfering the momentum to the q-tip causing it to fly outward.

Apr 16, 2007. 12:20 PMDash-2 says:

Ahh, thank you very much. I knew it was simple I just couldn't grasp it. Thanks!

Apr 16, 2007. 2:11 PMbsumner (author) says:

anytime!

Apr 14, 2007. 9:26 AMbsumner (author) says:

yeah, but I thought mine was simpler than the rest. I just put it up, so I'll wait a couple days, and if no one gives me some good feedback, I'll take it down. :( it was my first one.

Apr 16, 2007. 1:46 PMbsumner (author) says:

cool, well I guess I'll leave it up then

Apr 15, 2007. 5:10 AM

PocketSized says:

nah, don't take it down. Instructables is all about people sharing what they've made, and how they done it. You've given clear instructions with relevant pictures. This website would be boring if it only had one How-To for every possible project, and it's not as if there is a limited space. The more the merrier.