Introduction: Simple K'nex Machine Gun
This is a step-by-step, easy-to-follow, guide to building the simplest K'nex machine gun on the internet.
Step 1: Subassembly I
you can use the single tab end pieces instead of the doubble tabs
Step 2: Subassembly II
It looks complicated, but you really only need to connect all of the subassembly I's together.
Step 3: Subassembly III
the grey spacers can be replaced with three blue spacers depending on how many pieces you have. you can replace the K'nex Ferris Wheel motor for another one, but you may have to add more than one depending on how powerfull it is. If you do this, you will modify the design slightly.
Step 4: Subassembly VI
This is the stand for the Main gun
Step 5: Final
It should be pretty simple to connect the two previous steps.
E-mail me at hillbillyredneck@comcast when you have completed the gun. Pleez make suggestions.
38 Comments
12 years ago on Introduction
i have the ferris wheel motor,love that set.
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
i think thats the black one
11 years ago on Introduction
8 shot rly i made a 16 shot on my own with no pics!!!!!!!!
13 years ago on Introduction
Yes, gatling was the first, but a the first gatling guns were WAY to big to use with a trigger, and a handle, it used to be a cannon/chaingun weapon-_-
14 years ago on Introduction
Okay... people that say this and other machine guns are Gatling guns... check the facts. A Gatling gun is a machine gun, and is hand operated, infact it was the first rapidfire weaponry. So, either way, this isn't and NEVER will be... a Gatling gun. Gatling guns have to be hand operated with a crank. Motor powered Gatling guns are actually called Miniguns, which yes, are real, motorized, army weaponry.
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
you are wrong a gatlinggun isnt the first rapidfire weaponary the first was an auto-loading ballista the romans designed, and used
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
It's not really rapid fire. Rapid fire, in my definition, is something that can shoot at least 10 shots /second
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
im tried to amke a gattling gun but i wanna attach a crank so that you can pull it back, how is it possible, i am making snowflake with green rod gears but it doesn't seem to work...
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
a gatling gun? you are trying to make it spin? more detail plox :D
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
So a gun in which you spin the crank and it rotates gears which pull back a ram and lets go when it is too far back and then it snaps back forward shooting the bullet, and then again and again and again
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
oh, make one that isnt chain fed or mag fed, make tons of barrels and fill the ammunithion with them and a rubberband.. make a hole at one point in the front of the gun and spin the barrels, so whenever a berrel makes contact with the hole it fires, in other word, make every barrel into a miniature block gun
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
"make one that isnt chain fed or mag fed" Thats what i asked, "how do i make it"
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
lol well you can get innovation from this and put a handle on the end, or look around for "gatling guns" even though they are machine guns, they arent gatling guns rofl
13 years ago on Step 2
I'm actually thinking of a minigun that has barrels closer to the center to that it uses less parts (slightly). it might work but may not i just need to see some ways to spin the barrels
15 years ago on Introduction
CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN WHY EVERY TENTH INSTRUCTABLE IS A KNEX GUN i'm not hating it just seems like a seriously weird fetish. keep up the good work, if i happen upon some knex I might just have to build one. AHAHAHA!
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
Im up to 12th 2 unposted but none of them are guns...
Reply 15 years ago on Introduction
because, a lot of noobs like to post knex junk, say be nice, know their stuff is bad, and leave it on instructables...
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
be quiet it isnt 'knex junk' i will bet there is at least one knex gun that can knock you literally onto the ground so plz be quiey
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
i am canadian heavy cannon v1 is deadly
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
... Do you not get the point in my message? "because, a lot of noobs like to post knex junk, say be nice, know their stuff is bad, and leave it on instructables..." I said NOOBS post JUNK not GOOD BUILDERS building JUNK. There are very nice and intuitive guns out there, and I know some can knock you down. I have a few of my own. Please learn how to understand English before posting a comment. (I said please, so it's not an offensive comment.)