Jonaboy's Semi-auto Knex RBG gun

This is the result of my attempt to make an "inexpensive" (uses few parts) semi-auto knex rbg. (rubberband gun) I got kind of tired of finding Knex rbg guns that are great but take a gazillion parts to make. In addition, it doesn't look too bad, either, being somewhat reminiscent of an M1A3 "Grease gun". You are welcome to offer ideas and/or constructive criticism. Please let me know how you like it. :D

Step 1 Photo of parts needed.

Honestly, I don't think I really need to list out all of the parts. A picture's worth a thousand words anyway. :P

Comments

[verektemongul]

thx dude its great

[C.L.A.U.D.I.O.]

i realy like this coz i havent got a lot of pieses and this is a realy good gun thanks :)

[KnEx_MaStEr]

1.you only put the conectors in the instructions no rods 2.you never taught us to fire it good range i rated it 3.5

[jonaboy110]

First of all.... thanks for commenting. :) Just sort of FYI, and to everyone else reading this too, I'm not sure if I mentioned it or not in the instructable, but the green rubber bands that they use at Whole Foods, for containing cartons of berries, and salad boxes, etc., really work best as far as range. I have absolutely no idea what size they are, but if anyone has any idea please let me know. I'm pretty sure I put the rods too. If you mean the original photo, showing all the parts needed, the picture of the rods is the second one over... you have to click on it. Thanks... I'll add that now.

[KnEx_MaStEr]

sorry u did include the rods p.s good gun

[jonaboy110]

No problem. :D Actually I'm just glad that someone commented... and, thanks for the compliment. :)

[KnEx_MaStEr]

your welcome i subscribed

[jonaboy110]

Yeah I noticed.. thanks. :)

[KnEx_MaStEr]

your welcome

[Ltcheesecracker]

wow i didnt think it was posibale but u acctually pulled it off... a rbg that isnt semi auto!!!! ALL RBGS ON THE SITE ARE SEMI AUTO!!!!!!!! omg .5 star....

[14r31337]

I made a rbg that wasn't semi-auto... didn't post.

[jonaboy110]

http://www.instructables.com/id/Kaynex-7-Pistol-RBG/

[yourworstnightmare]

how does the rubber band go on i cant see it and how does it fire and how do i load it 5stars+

[jonaboy110]

 Uh, if you look at the completed gun ( the end product, as it were) you should see an orange (horizontal, rectangle looking connector, but they're normally just called "orange" connectors) connector. You hook the rubber band through the end (open end of the "h" of the connector) and stretch the rubber band (be careful that it doesn't come off of the orange connector as you do so) over, onto the green peg, (Uh, that one's typically just called a "green rod") on top of the white circle connector trigger assembly. You can see it in 2 of these photos here, just sticking out over the trigger assembly's yellow half-circle connectors. 

Hope that wasn't too confusing, and helped. Thanks for the 5 stars. :)

[lewismarsh]

does it fire and if so how?

[yerjoking]

I hear you say that the trigger resets. Every RBG trigger resets it's self, if it was semi auto, that is. This is not semi auto, nor semi-semi auto. But it is cool.

[pls]

You only need to have the gun on the intro picture O.o

[jonaboy110]

Yeah, I know. I didn't purposefully put that there, it did that on it's own. o_0 I don't want to accidentally delete all of the "real" steps, so I'm not going to mess around with it now.. soz about that. BTW, your instructables pwn. B) Esp. the gatling gun.... #_# (dead guy...)

[dsman195276]

ya, if you upload all the pictures on the intro they get put there. all you need to do so this does not happen on future instructables, is only upload the pictures you need for each step, and then upload the pictures needed for the step when you get to it.

[jonaboy110]

Oh, ok, cool. Thanks :)

[pls]

Oh okay, don't worry about it then, better be safe than sorry! And thanks for the compliment:)

[Wafflicious]

Um... It's single shot I think not semi auto =)

[jonaboy110]

Well, sort of. It's actually (because of the spring that resets the trigger) semi-semi-auto, but that doesn't sound very good, (or smart... o_0) and I doubt anyone would be searching for a "semi-semi-auto RBG gun". xD Thanks for commenting anyway, though.

[Wafflicious]

actually it's single shot.. You reload the ammo after every shot.

[jonaboy110]

No, it's semi-semi auto... you have to reload, but you don't have to reposition the trigger, like you do for most (all?) of the other Knex RBGs of this type....but whatever. I'm not going to quibble over the term. (much...) -_- It's close to being semi-auto, and to me that's about all that matters.

[dsman195276]

semi-semi-auto is a single shot. semi-auto is where it shoots once every time the trigger is pulled. semi-semi-auto would be where you have to reload every shoot. a trigger resetter is the oldest thing ever made for knex guns, and it is nothing new, and most if not all knex RBGs have them.

[Wafflicious]

Thanks that's a good way to put it.

[Wafflicious]

Nooo If you have to reload it's not