K'nex Semi-Auto Revolver

The first K'nex double action revolver, it's only been...oooh... at least 3 years too long since I first made it but over that time I have fiddled and tweaked it to what it is today. So it's finally here YAAAAAAYY!

It can shoot oodammo, blue, green or white rods (I find that I get the most range from the white rods). 
When shot horizontally the range with one band is about 25 feet.


Unlike other K'nex guns with cylinders this one has an auto-revolver mechanism that rotates the cylinder whenever the trigger is pulled, so you never have to rewind it, EVER!

Step 1: Frame

Okay, soooo...

1. Fabricate 1 like so. Merci beaucoup.
2. And a further 1 alikea thiis!
3. Attach these yellow rods and make sure they are in the same places. 

Now set these aside.

4. Make 3 of such a thing.
5. Fix the layers with rods.

Comments

[LvNo1000]

Well... nice gun but instructable=****

[feeltheheatps3]

can you ppppllllllleeeeaase tel me how the barrel rotates

[jaffawarrior1]

AMAZING GUN but carp instructions

[knexguy237]

dude, this is awesome. I am definitely making this 5*!

[beanieostrich]

What is the max amount of bands you can put on this thing?

[Loosewire; SOE Operative]

It depends, if they were #64s then 2 probably.

[mrmuffin]

PLZ REMAKE INSTRUCTIONS

[mrmuffin]

HELP OMG when i shoot it it only goes back like an 1/8 of the way and the trigger is touching the barrel Help!!!!!!!

[X Files]

hmmm... if you ask me, it looks a little too much like oodalumps's WASP to be credible.

[DJ Radio]

Are you so illiterate that you didn't read the intro?

[Element Force]

how the turret rotate

[apples!!!!!]

I think literacy is not the problem here.

[Element Force]

its impossible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Element Force]

WTF DUDE there was already no blue spacers

[Element Force]

What the hell
Pic 4 Fail

[Element Force]

i dont have this orange connector !!

[Element Force]

Its that okey if i use my turret TR18

[Element Force]

man its like a automatic TR8

[pokerface1]

This gun is great.... but the instruction is by far the worst i've ever seen....

for example look to picture 1 from step 2 ( look where the straight orange connecter is placed with the white rod)
Now look to picture 4 and 5 from step 5 ( is it on another place.... you didn't even say that it sits wrong or something )

That's why i don't realy like the instruction... I'm realy sorry man

I rated: 4.5 ( for gun ) 1.5 ( instruction) 4.5+1.5=6 6:2=3
I rated a 3... i'm realy sorry man just not very nice to build if it takes you like 5 minutes each picture to understand....

[Dragonfly7]

I want to see how it works (the rotating mechanism) But you have GOT to make better instructions!

[skyfaller]

BWAAHHH NOT ENOUGH LIGHT GREY, GRRRR.

[dr. richtofen]

replace them with reds, works for me

[skyfaller]

Haha, thanks for the help but i got more pieces.

[dr. richtofen]

ok

[knexinglemon]

dude its an awesome gun but can you please make a better instructable because i realy want to make it

[mulletman6]

Terrible instructions!

[younglink212]

this gun is AWSOME!!!

[Kinetic]

Cool gun :) Horrible instructable :(

[Loosewire; SOE Operative]

:( It took me 2 days to do that.

[Kinetic]

Well I can tell you put effort into it based on all the extra comments (you have a good sense of humor), but on some of the steps you showed images of an already complete gun and when putting the gun together you would jump from a half completed handle to adding a forgotten spacer. When I post guns, I do it layer by layer, though I recognize that that is a little more irritating with a yellow-width gun, but it is much more clear. I love the gun, I the effort you put into the instructable, but try to follow a layer by layer format next time and you won't hear any complaints from me :) Sorry if I was a bit to the point on my first comment.

[Loosewire; SOE Operative]

Well thank you for telling me, constructive criticism is always appreciated.

[jedijaxson]

Ya, we never made that stuff in pic 4!

[Inventor X]

My rating changed your overall into a 5.0 (:

[Loosewire; SOE Operative]

What do you mean you can't read the photos?

[knexinventer]

well i cant really understand where to put the bands and other things

[Inventor X]

If you understand how this mechanism works, you should know where to place bands that provide the mechanical energy for such a thing to operate. :p

[lorzhenk]

WTF DUDE?! your gun is genius but the instractable is a senseless piece of nothing!!!!!

[lorzhenk]

whats up with pic 4, we never made that! =/

[crestind]

Not on KI :'( It shoots pretty far though.

[knexgundude]

dude its sweet but it dosent shoot very far

[AUG-5OM3]

Sorry dude I tried making it but the instructions are too unclear. The idea is very good though.

[DB2016]

Good idea, but due to inconsistent directions, lack of English, and extra/unrelated pictures, the final result left me with a broken orange connector, three barrels that fell off, two bullets that actually shot, and three barrels with the bullets about a millimeter from their original starting point. I am really glad I got to take apart my M1 Garand Hammer Mech gun for this.

NOT.

[DB2016]

Alright, that was a bit harsh, and the broken piece wasn't entirely your fault, but when you said to put the rubber band somewhere instead of showing us, it got really messed up, and the only reason the above happened was because it wouldn't spin. The times it did it shot very nicely.

Please add a little bit more detail, clean up the pics so that you don't have extras, and please be more consistent with the pics, for example, in Step 1 below the snowflake connector it is a green connector, yet in the final pictures it is a yellow connector.

A video would bring my 2.0 up to a 3.5 or above, with one of the plates removed, preferably the one with the pawl on it removed so the mechanism can be seen and duplicated, thank you.

[Loosewire; SOE Operative]

Okay, yeah, I will try to do a video. Sorry about some inconsistency in the photos, it was because as I was doing the Instructable I modified it slightly.

[DB2016]

And thanks for being cool dude, as you know, comments always look more hostile than the person intended, but I modded it to shoot yellow rods with a break-action type thing where the handle part bends in the middle so you can easily take the cylinder out to reload. Yeah, I mean, I know how it's SUPPOSED to work, for me it just doesn't. Thanks man for replying though.

[DB2016]

Alright, I mean, I modded it so now it just doesn't rotate, part of it was my fault I think, so I'll higher the rating, but I would really like an auto rotate... Like I said, a video of the mechanism (the pawl-side plate taken off) would suffice, but it DOES get nice range. Reminds me of the Mauler from Halo haha.

[knexinglemon]

these instructions are retarted in every step its got something from a previous step but a peice is different so you have to change it

[jamesdude]

You're supposed to make the parts in each picture and then put them together the way he shows...

[DB2016]

No, he's right, look at the plates from step one, then in the final steps they're different in multiple places.

[Cheezpaper]

FINALLY. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SINCE YOU FIRST POSTED IT ON KI.

[Inventor X]

I believe this is one of 2 mechanisms that could work really nicely on Knex gun.
One being this, and the other being the mech. Kinetic used on his Kinetic rifle. :D Btw, really sweet gun, built it and it works like a charm.

[MegaMetal8]

Will build soon

[mberg]

The mechanism that u have is similar to what was trying to do to one of my guns.

[knexinglemon]

i dont get the last picture on the step coz there is something with a blue circle piece when we never made that??

[hazza the gun]

a few teething problems (range, pawl falling off etc.)
could be a little more reliable and have a better power to trigger weight ratio. Apart from that gr8 gun, i hope the design gets picked up by other knex gunsmiths and improved. dont take this the wrong way, its fantastic. However the main problem is the orange connector on the back of the trigger (more commonly known as a sear) as it wont lock in the most powerful postion without the trigger being pushed forward by about 1 millimeter or so.

THANKS!!!!!

[Sketch98]

You can't have a strong semi auto shot without winding a wheel of rubber bands or having a heavy trigger. It's conservation of energy.

[tytiger33]

Could someone make this mech smaller and more reliable?

[Whaleman]

Well, you could certainly try yourself.

[tytiger33]

Thats not my specialty. My specialty is modding more normal style guns and generally not messing with the mech. Besides I don't fully understand this gun and until more like this are made I still won't. The problem I was having until I took it apart was the pawl kept falling off and before that the was skipping rounds, firring with random ranges,not rotating the cylinder and and generally being unreliable. Can you help and give us a reliable and powerful small semi-auto? And I think that this gun's mech could be used to make a mag fed gun.

[TheFoofinator]

BAM

[tytiger33]

Cool tell me when instructions come out.

[Whaleman]

This gun's mech (or at least the same style) has been used in mag fed guns before. The mech is nothing new; it's just a trigger that has a part sticking back that is able to push up on and rotate a "spring" loaded hammer back. After a certain point, the trigger releases the hammer and the bit that sticks out resets so that it can slip past the hammer. The pawl and indexer are just there to rotate the cylinder- Loose chose to go with a mechanism closer to what is used on an actual revolver rather than the kind of cylinder that is common to other turret-loaded guns.

[tytiger33]

Could you give me links to the mag fed guns with a hammer?

[Sketch98]

If you had posted this three years ago, knex would be so much farther.

[The Nomlack]

Can this be made with red cons in place of all those lgrey cons?

[Loosewire; SOE Operative]

Unfortunately not.

[The Nomlack]

OH NOOOOOOO

[SomeAsianKid]

in my opinion this would be one of my favourite guns :P as you dont have to pull the ram back and there is no ram !!! im very impressed

[hazza the gun]

wow. ive been lookin 4 a gun like this 4 a while. i gave up. i came to loosewires page for another thing, and saw this. it is amazing- u figured out how 2 make a proper indexer that works. wow

[knexinventer]

i cant realy read these pics do you have any others?

[knexinventer]

for building

[DJ Radio]

Well here you finally go. Glad to see it finally posted.

[instruct39]

cool!

[I_am_Canadian]

Very, very nice.

[Storm950]

Ah.

[Raz1r Knex Bull3t]

Just a question, do you know what range this gets? (I wouldn't expect it to go over 35 feet because of the design of how it functions) I'm just curious.

[Loosewire; SOE Operative]

It really depends on how heavy you are willing to have the trigger pull, horizontally I get about 25 feet with a pull I would describe as medium to relatively light (with one band) that allows for continuous rapid firing.
Really if you are going to make the pull very heavy you are better off saving your fingers as, although single handed, you will only get a ROF similar to a normal oodammo pistol.

[knexinventer]

yay it is finished now i can bild it :)O:

[Mepain]

well it's okay i guess i mean it just seems like the technology is like 4 years old or something.

[Loosewire; SOE Operative]

Hahaha!
Yeah, this is what I had KK working on back when I had him locked in my basement and people thought he was dead.

[Raz1r Knex Bull3t]

What's cool about it though is you never have to wind it up, so it's not completely that old of technology. You would think that this has a cleaner design than ooda's semi-auto.

[Raz1r Knex Bull3t]

Oh so this what you were talking about on KI. Yeah this thing is a beast. 5*s and fav. I forgot to sub you as well. This is a better clean design than ooda's you have to admit.

[beanieostrich]

I might get around to building it sometime =D

[apples!!!!!]

Awesome job, I only wish I started this idea sooner because you implemented everything I wanted to :P

[knex_builder_freak]

Nice!!! i will have to build this

[~KGB~]

Nice!