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Labeled as "Elastnikov". When someone challenges you to a rubber band gun building contest.
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that is really col
Be nice to see whole apparatus.
some more video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWIsy_41M7Y
That is more than cool I would have loved to have had 1 in the 7th grade when the teacher had his back turned
What's so neat about it is the complexity of it makes it so simple. The drum has a cord attached to it wind the drum 1 round while attaching the rubber bands over the winding cord until the stringers are all full a little electric motor winds the winch spool while rotating the drum the cord pulls each rubber band off the pin as it rotates the drum
Our 6th grade teacher always wore a suit but it was no armour against our home made darts. He received one right in the back side. the whole class got detention & to this day I don't know who the culprit was. Very funny...........now! The darts were banned from the school grounds: can't understand why as with a needle as the point they would stick in hardwood rafters in the eating areas:the flights were paper folded so had 4 instead of the usual three. really dangerous.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
That rubber band gun would have been much better.
California thinks they are the leaders of the world because they banned plastic drinking straws. What they don't know is the school I attended banned drinking straws in 1968 due to spit wad wars. Didn't stop us though because along about that time a little company named Bic started making or at least we started seeing them in stores a ball point pen that all you had to do was pull the end out with the ink tube attached and you had the perfect spit wad gun. albeit a tad smaller than the paper soda straws they made great blow guns for kitchen matches as well and a glancing hit would strike them for an added thrill. Bonus points for setting the stack of test papers on fire a top the teacher's desk.
Long as you have an in with the local office supply...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
Yes Frank. Those paper straws were all the rage here too & also we would wind up our parents by stabbing potatoes to see who could go deeper with them.
Stabbing potatoes haven't thought about that in lots of years my trick was lots of speed and a light enough grip not to crush the straw .
Another thing we did was to un curl them put a piec of tape on the end then see if we could stick them on someone's back without them knowing about it. I managed to stick one on the back of a teacher's dress her name was Hogstetter everyone nick named her Miss hog Where I managed to attach it it looked like a red pig's tail jutting out from her light brown dress. Oh what fun we could have had if camera phones had existed back then. The principle caught me doing it but just winked at me and walked on by snickering to himself.
kids all round the world had similar mischief, like huckelberry finn, and do silly COOL stuff, When uncurled the straws were like a barbers pole red white red white or whatever colour, Ha Ha. attach to sky rockets at guy faux, make an adult look silly, pick on an unwitting bully, etc.Your principal was ahead of time:now the poor buggers are like Sidney P, in "to sir with love" & copping it from both ways. Do you know the most asked about/ saught after item when searching the net last year (for months) was paper straws : maybe the folk (x,y z, or new gen) are seeing some light : forget about us old fogies.( not the ccr Fogarty guys).