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Mini Air Gun

Easy to make an mini air gun with just a pen and a chopstick.

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Step 1Materials

Materials:

Pen, chopstick, tape, toilet paper, water

Tools:

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55 comments

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Jun 4, 2009. 11:31 PMhaydes says:

i wish you could fire something with a point in a pen shooter

Jun 3, 2011. 5:15 PMdodo91 says:

You can. Make a blow dart with a shoelace end, undo the shoelace into the small fibers, and push a pin throught the lace and through the aglet (plastic tip). put in the dart with a spitball behind it, and load it... then put the other spitball in and fire! Hope you understand.... I had a hard time figuring out how to word it.

Jun 3, 2011. 4:43 PMdodo91 says:

I feel like adding a BB in in front of the tissue paper....

Apr 25, 2011. 2:06 PMPlo Koon says:

me try it ;)

Apr 25, 2011. 2:04 PMPlo Koon says:

it can b cappy, right?

Apr 25, 2011. 2:03 PMPlo Koon says:

U ROCK!!!!!!!

Apr 25, 2011. 2:03 PMPlo Koon says:

COOL DUDE!

Jan 22, 2011. 11:02 AMTadashi98 says:

awsome game

Dec 18, 2010. 7:39 AMAir_Assassin says:

R u chinese

Aug 11, 2010. 10:35 PMTape-structable says:

My parents did this as kids, instead of a pen tube, they used bamboo, for all the parts. I made one now, using your pen idea, and instead of tape, I used the matching pen cap, so its pretty convenient to shoot around and hide.

Nov 17, 2007. 4:52 PMgatorfan94 says:

is there anything painful that you could shoot out of it. (plz be specific)

Oct 30, 2009. 10:45 AMol987986 says:

bb's???

Feb 9, 2009. 1:51 PMbylerfamily says:

Needles stuck through the regular paper wad.Dipped in tranquilizer and shot at someone...

Feb 9, 2009. 10:02 AMbylerfamily says:

Airsoft BBs.

Feb 10, 2009. 3:40 PMclemsonguy1125 says:

yeah well those are made for shooting so you should only use there not anything more dangerous

Sep 18, 2008. 6:30 PMscora08288 says:

i've tried to get the back part out but all i've managed to do is bust up about 5 pens. how do you get the back out?

Oct 19, 2011. 7:27 PMsswartz2 says:

take a small screw driver and stick it in the tube and push the black end out. tap it lighty and start increasing the tapping power it should come out.dont pry it off.

Feb 10, 2009. 3:41 PMclemsonguy1125 says:

i use my teeth or rama a stick down the tube

Dec 18, 2007. 10:34 PMkalika23 says:

yes there is... you can use the end of the pen (the little black part) to load into one end of the pen and the other end needs to be tissue or paper or w/e just make sure that the end of the pen thing isnt in all the way only about half way (if its in all the way it wont work but if its in half way) and it should give a sharp crack and fire it hurts really bad like an airsoft gun

Sep 30, 2009. 4:17 PMColonel88 says:

Those bottom things arel ike impossible to take off.I think that the manufacturers make it unremovable.They dont make em like they used to... (Lol im like 12 years old always wanted to say that)

Jun 3, 2011. 4:45 PMdodo91 says:

just use pliers....

Nov 21, 2009. 5:39 AMfishermanfo says:

us pliers or take the front of the pen off stick i chopstick through the tube and press really hard and the bottom thing will come out

Dec 18, 2007. 10:39 PMkalika23 says:

sry for double posting but i thought of something else.. if you really want to hurt someone take a sewing needle and cut it about the size of two small erasers and then shove it through an eraser (the ones you get out of pencils) and it should look something like a thumb tack and that should hurt a bit.

Oct 3, 2009. 2:46 AMgiuliano315 says:

lol really works 2

Aug 30, 2009. 3:49 AMfirefighter1333 says:

ma neighboor teached me this when i was younger only than with pvc pipes and nuts from trees, he ones hit me by excident: like getting hit by a paintball gun OUTCH!

Jun 5, 2009. 4:23 PMPyro Fiend says:

sht. AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

May 30, 2009. 12:56 PMpoptart432 says:

can i use something else but chopsticks

Apr 21, 2009. 2:54 PMKidz_Creator says:

This looks cool...i wish i hadn't used up all the pens like this in my house for the really simple pen gun...

Feb 1, 2008. 4:40 PMgeeklord says:

i made somethin like this, but i taped a rubber band to the end of the stick and to the front of the pen tube, so you could pull it back and shoot anything that fit in the pen tube.

Mar 27, 2009. 12:29 PMsharlston says:

thats just a spear gun

Oct 29, 2008. 2:48 PMclemsonguy1125 says:

I have done this and could make it shoot a least 25 feet

Feb 10, 2009. 7:03 AMbylerfamily says:

Hahaha.Mine shoots further than yours.I use the chopstick wrapped in tape instead of 2 balls.

Feb 10, 2009. 3:39 PMclemsonguy1125 says:

i tryed this but i had to keep replacing the tape so i gave up try usein twoo micro 0 rings

Feb 10, 2009. 3:55 PMbylerfamily says:

Yeah I have to keep replacing the tape to.

Feb 9, 2009. 1:50 PMbylerfamily says:

This is awesome!Its favorited and rated.I made it except I got tired of loading 2 bullets.So I wrapped masking tape around the front of the chopstick until it was airtight in the pen.That worked just as well and was faster to load.Again,GREAT INSTRUCTABLE!