Mini-Bungees

by shawnzyoo

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Intro: Mini-Bungees

Ever need a very short bungee cord?

Have a few rubber bands and some paper clips?

Like to compete with yourself?

STEP 1: Materials and Tools

Gather your materials:
  • 1 or 2 rubber bands
  • 2 paper clips
  • Stopwatch to beat your previous record

Tools:
I used a needle nose pliers to bend the paper clips, but your hands would work equally well.

Time:
63.2 seconds

STEP 2: Bend and Finish

Cut and bend the paper clips to your desired hook length.

I used needle nose pliers to tightly wind the paper clips around themselves, if your needle nose pliers are out for resharpening then just use your hands.

Loop the rubber band(s) around the hoops you made and you are done.

4 Comments

admin 14 years ago

This is a great Instructable, but you need to add a main image of the final project to the intro step. Please do that and leave me a message when you have so that we can publish your work. Thanks!

CODZTA2011 12 years ago

bravo mate, bravo!
this thing is AWESOME
Ive been looking for something to do with my rubber bands - too many of them

steve_tupper2010 14 years ago

A very good idea. I tried it yesterday evening, but have one comment: I braided the elastic bands - it was much stronger, as tested by using various weights with the finished product. Of course, this made the bungee a bit shorter. Thanks for the tip.

stephenniall 14 years ago

These are pretty cool I will make some for a mini Slingshot im building