Over the next few months I am going to be introducing a series new and unused concepts in hopes that the community can perhaps see something that they can use in these guns, even if it merely be the hammer I used in this gun. There are hundreds of you out there and so there are hundreds of different ways of looking at this gun, and thus hundreds of possibilities for it. So this will be the first of a series of concept guns that I will be introducing: The K-1.
The K-1
A few months ago Oblivitus introduces the idea of a removable power source and I thought it had huge potential. The one I use in this gun fits in very similarly to the way that the magazine fits into my KLS v.2. The gun itself utilizes a hammer to fire rounds out of an 8-shot turret. Its range is minimal and the gun is rather poorly put together, but the important part is the power source. I just find that people get more excited about things if they can see them put to use.
One thing leads to another:
Although the K-1 is pretty impractical, I see some things going for the components of this gun. Although the power source could only get three shots off max, I noticed that while I was turning the gears to get the rest of the shots off, the "battery" still had some juice in it. I am going to use this experience to try to make an "assisted" semi auto, where a mechanical energy source will be used to assist the finger in transferring power to a firing system.
Let me know if you have any ideas for these concepts and before you decide to post ANOTHER mag-fed, pin-fire gun, think about how many are already out there and ask yourself "what can I do to stand out?"
The K-1
A few months ago Oblivitus introduces the idea of a removable power source and I thought it had huge potential. The one I use in this gun fits in very similarly to the way that the magazine fits into my KLS v.2. The gun itself utilizes a hammer to fire rounds out of an 8-shot turret. Its range is minimal and the gun is rather poorly put together, but the important part is the power source. I just find that people get more excited about things if they can see them put to use.
One thing leads to another:
Although the K-1 is pretty impractical, I see some things going for the components of this gun. Although the power source could only get three shots off max, I noticed that while I was turning the gears to get the rest of the shots off, the "battery" still had some juice in it. I am going to use this experience to try to make an "assisted" semi auto, where a mechanical energy source will be used to assist the finger in transferring power to a firing system.
Let me know if you have any ideas for these concepts and before you decide to post ANOTHER mag-fed, pin-fire gun, think about how many are already out there and ask yourself "what can I do to stand out?"
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One problem i'm having is that you can't wind the "battery pack" very much, otherwise the elastic bands will snap and a lot of their potential power is used just stretching them round the "battery pack".
I will keep it built and will work on it when i have time. Problem with having it built is that now i don't have enough bits for your new gun - will have to take something else apart.
If you want to get power out of this type of system it takes a lot of work and learning. Sharir and I probably have 100 hours between us trying to figure it out. It's a huge undertaking.
And about innovation; yeah, the dunkis and I were discussing that. He said he would start an innovation competition, but if you can come up with any ideas for promoting innovation in the community that would be great too. Might be something you'll want to think on. I try to do it with my concept drawings, which seems to work to a degree, it did inspire you in this project. But I think we could use something that'll really invigorate the community.
Thanks for pursuing my idea by the way, I think power packs will play an important role in the future of knex guns.
Yeah, although I wasn't initially going to pursue it any longer, sharir contacted me about continuing the project with him.
Would you like me to make you a collaborator? You won't be up to speed on the project (it takes a while to learn about all the mechanical ins and outs, but especially the physics of it, as well as catching up on our catalog of mechanisms and structures developed for it) but you can see what we're doing and build what we post if you like. If you want to catch up in your understanding of it, go through all of our comments and posts on it on the unpublished instructable.
In conclusion, I don't want to have to explain and discuss the whole history of the design over again with an additional collaborator, but I can let you in on seeing what we're doing if you like. You can catch yourself up on it and post any significant developments. Thanks for the interest!