15 Minute Spring Powered Mini

Miniature cannons are novelties made with materials such as bottles or pens.
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maverik94
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Here is a spring powered mini I made in about 15 minutes, It is made from the end of an old sharpie, a portion of clothes-hanger, a powerful spring form a toy gun (found at kroger I think), and a key ring. I hope to try using airsoft bbs for ammo, but I have used roofing nails as ammo so far. They have gotten stuck in paper towel rolls, not that impressive, but I didnt really plan this project out. Anyway, it's a pretty weak gun that I've shot myself in the finger with and it doesnt really hurt......but.....

This is the mini, I wanted to paint it with a paint pen, painted it, didnt like it, then sanded off some of the paint and got lazy and didn't finnish sanding it

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This is me pulling back the "trigger" of the mini (yes I know I have the smallest thumbnails in the world)

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Reminds me of the Mardi Gras bead shooter we made in the 7th grade. It used a wooden plunger to launch plastic Mardi Gras beads, and we finally stopped making them in high school when my friend got suspended for shooting one past my CC coach. :)

Nice little mini.
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haha, thanks for the compliment, I dont really deserve it, this was an easy build.
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