Knex Heavy Cannon v5 - Handheld

Voila! My v5 is posted. It uses less pieces than ever before, and is, as the name suggests, handheld! Its got a handle on top, and one on the back. It shoots a slightly different ammo about 75 feet.

I managed to save a load of pieces by making the rails out of rods, saving yellow connectors and green rods. It does result in more blue rods than I would have liked... But who cares!

Thats pretty well it. I hope you like it!

I have made a few other versions of this gun (all of them bigger!). Check them out!
Original
Mini
Nano
Micro

Step 1: Parts list

The parts list! This is where I list the parts. The parts you will need are on the parts list, which is apart of my Instructable. Thank you for listening!

FOR THE CANNON
Rods
Green ---- 129
White ----- 61
Blue ------- 105 (Yow!)
Yellow --- 4
Red ------- 28

Connectors
Dark Grey -- 75 (Ouch!)
Light Grey - 9
Red ----------- 65
Green ------- 37
Yellow ------ 68
White -------- 22
Orange ----- 49
Blue --------- 26 (Thats the one in the picture)
Purple ------ 52

Other
Black Y Connector - 6
Elastics - 16. Use #64's. Please. They work the best.
Elastic - you will need one other one. A #64 works best
Blue Spacers - 70
Silver Spacers- 27
Tan Clip - 4
Medium Wheel - 4
Got those? NO?!? Well then go get them!

Comments

[tobias1998]

My #64 rubber bands are longer, could I use one less then?
If I don't the rubber bands are not tight, while they need to be.

[Asa1Awsome]

I get my rubber bands from the mail.

[halo99]

where do you buy your rubberbands? because i gave up on the compact ast thing and im building this

[I_am_Canadian]

Staples.

[FlutterTree]

I get mine at Dicks And Company ( Basics).

[halo99]

 what town/country? i live in California so i have no idea what your talking about 

[FlutterTree]

Oh. I live in Canada.

[halo99]

 ughhhh...everyone lives in canada,maybe i should move there...

[OZKNEX22]

I'm from australia you go there they got powerful and big nerf guns paper guns and paintball guns there awesome i have a few of them too.

[OZKNEX22]

I'm from australia you go there they got powerful and big nerf guns paper guns and paintball guns there awesome i have a few of them too.

[mrmuffin]

I live in america XD Meh maybe i should move to china cuse in the us there are so little nerf longshots. lol

[FlutterTree]

...laugh all you want. That's the name of buisness in my town.
 

[OZKNEX22]

thanks

[OZKNEX22]

This is really cool how big are the wheels in cm? send ASAP thanks by

[I_am_Canadian]

http://knex.com/building_toys/gray_pulleytire_insert_2in.php?partType=standard

[mrmuffin]

AND GUYS U ONLY NEED THE BLUE RINGS ON THE MECH ITS NOT RLY REQUIERD ON THE OTHER PARTS

[I_am_Canadian]

True fact.

[mrmuffin]

nvm about my other comment that always happens to me i dont know how it work i go bacck read more of it and the ammo is somehow use for the trigger mech EVERY TIME! LOL

[I_am_Canadian]

Cool beans, thanks!

[Sandy44444]

you published this on my birthday/election day! OBAMA 08!

[jdoggkuhn]

happy bday

[I_am_Canadian]

W00t!

[the-ruler-of-craziness]

do you recon than i could mod the barrel to no use as many blues

[I_am_Canadian]

Spacers?

[the-ruler-of-craziness]

no rods i dont have near enough rods

[Owenmon]

that stinks =( i have like at least 800

[the-ruler-of-craziness]

realy!? theres a thing called sharing lol. only joking

[jdoggkuhn]

XD

[Owenmon]

nah, i would give all of them away for 400 metalic blue rods :-) its not like any knex thing uses 800 blue rods! unless i'm making mutiple things....(witch i love to do) so nvm XD

[Jesus.]

Ball machines can.

[I_am_Canadian]

Oh...

[TOMNDAN]

can you go to my orangeboard

[nerd97]

HOW THE HECK DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH PIECES FOR TEH ORIGINAL?!? I HAVE A 25POUND TUB OF KNEX AND IT'S NOT ENOUGH!!!!

[nerd97]

EVERYTHING IS SMALLER WITH THIS CANNON!!!

[TOMNDAN]

do you have to build both barrels? answer ASAP

[I_am_Canadian]

Yes.

[nerd97]

Aw, dang. I'm gonna try anyway.

[ghostpotato]

THIS THING IS A BEAST i can only imagine the full sized one ( my goal is to one day make it but currently i have no where near enough pieces)

i made a barrel re-enforcment mod ill post some pics soon

[I_am_Canadian]

Sweet! Sounds good!

[MarshallHardee]

Could you possibly post a better picture of the trigger? Its confusing me a tad. I've tried it for several hours, can't seem to get it though