Yet Another K'nex Gun (YAKG)

Let's face it. There are a lot of K'nex guns on Instructables. After looking a most of them, I wasn't satisfied with any single one. Some had good ideas, such as a good handle, firing pin, or trigger, but none had it all. So, I decided to make my own gun, pulling together various parts from other guns. Never fear, everyone who's ideas I used get credit in the next step.

• This is my first Instructable, and is subject to spelling errors, typos, incorrect part count, etc. Please let me know if you find any problems!

Step 1 Information

Specs:

• Repeat capability: Re-cock*
• Ammo type: Blue rod
• Ammo storage: Bottom-loading magazine
• Ammo capacity: 15 blue rods
• Trigger type: True trigger (front-blocking type)
• Rubber band capacity: up to 8

Extra features:

• Simple adjustable laser mount (mod)
• Recoil dampening (mod)

And in case you missed it, that's magazine, not hopper. You can fire this upside-down.

Where I got the ideas from:

Anybody can build a K'nex gun, but it takes something else to come up with ideas. I am a big advocate for people getting credit for their ideas, so I will show where all of the ideas for this gun came from.

Magazine:

• Sides: K'nex AST Rifle
• Front and back: K'nex Autoload Rifle
• Pusher: K'nex Semi-Automatic Pistol
• Because the sides hold the rods in a single-file line, and the front/back give the rods a little extra room to slide up and down, this magazine hardly ever jams.

Handle:

• killerk's K'nex Gun

Barrel:

• killerk's K'nex Gun

Trigger:

• The Desert Buzzard K'nex Gun

Firing Pin:

• 7 Shot K'nex Pistol

Rubber Band Sliders:

• This isn't my idea, I got it from a gun with big wheels sticking out of the sides. I can't find it anymore. Let me know if you see it.

Breech (modified connectors):

• K'nex Dual Pistol Set

*Most people incorrectly call this semi-auto.

Comments

[mweatherl]

This is one of the few K'nex guns I have made off of this awesome web site, and by far this one is the BEST!!!! Thanks for posting all of the instructions clearly!!!! Some guns i see only show a picture of a gun with no instructions, and i am not very good at following that!!!!
Thanks again, please post more!!!
Micah

[Cheezpaper]

Or you can just use a ball joint socket for the "decapitated" grey connector coudn't you?

[KnexFreek]

 You still around man??? I LOVE this gun! Have you seen my guns?? PLEASE CHECK THEM OUT.

[lord voldamort]

uh, i just realized why i could only get one in,i was shooting white rods instead of blue

[lord voldamort]

when i first made this, i could only get one rod in the mag.

[Flie-Ing GOOse]

also, u cant get recoil on a knex gun

[DavidRobertson]

You can get recoil on a knex gun because recoil is the backwards shock. Remember every action has an euqal and opposite re-action

[knexmaster#1]

u are a nerd

[rofl495]

He's not a nerd, your just not as smart as him which is why u call people nerds.

[j-chode!]

No he isn't. It's common knowlede basically.

[Trauts]

Yes but it's so overpowered by the ram pushing forward, it's virtually undetectable.

[j-chode!]

That wasn't my point...

[Trauts]

Oh sorry. "u are a nerd" -> "No he isn't. it's common knowlede basically"

[j-chode!]

The penny drops.

[Trauts]

What?

[The Jamalam]

no hes not, he just actually knows stuff

[joey2542667]

no he's not. he just watches mythbusters and knows about murphys law.

[dsman195276]

you mean newtons laws?

[joey2542667]

ya

[nerfer192]

no, hes smart. i just learned that in science class

[guitarmonk15]

what are you, in second grade?

[Ludwig Gunner]

You are stupid

[DavidRobertson]

Thanks a billion.

[FrozenFire 99]

he aint nerd its just sience everyone gets that at school

[Whaleman]

yes, but on knex guns, it is generally the opposite of recoil, more like forecoil.

[ashchetm]

it stinks when you have 'forecoil' on a hand gun, because the entire gun lurches foward, in some guns this can result in a bullet on the floor

[Knex_Gun_Builder]

no because think front coil pushes the gun forward not at a 90 degree angle.

[mmzdaniel]

shooting with killek´s gun with 3 RB makes a huge recoil lol... well basically its not really recoil its just a shock so, your right. you cannot get recoil on knex guns! (unless you use Xplosives)

[rofl495]

use explosives instead of a firing pin,or both.

[the dawg]

sick fire crackers on the bullet and the ram rod muhahahaha

[woohoo659]

good idea...

[FrozenFire 99]

the rubberbands or the explosives? lol

[woohoo659]

The Esplosives! ;)

[FrozenFire 99]

lol i think the knex gun wont be the only things that will be shattered into pieces

[T3Hprogrammer]

The acceleration of the firing pin is recoil. I'm pretty sure you get only "real" recoil on bows that have no firing pin.

[mmzdaniel]

i think its still not achieved in Xbows...

[Flie-Ing GOOse]

lol

[phlorgan]

i sopse the only way to get true recoil would be to mount the firing pin backwards! lol ;)

[Oompa-Loompa]

lol

[phlorgan]

*SPOSE*