Gord over at Gord’s Garage has been busy with home-based anodizing. It’s some amazing stuff he is doing. I sent him one of the rubber band gun assemblies, and he did an amazing job on it. In an incredible amount of detail, Gord has written up and photographed the whole process: http://gordsgarage.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/the-full-monty-part-1/ http://gordsgarage.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/the-full-monty-part-2/ In summary, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Rubber Band Gun #6’
Plain to Pretty: Rubber Band Gun #6 Anodized
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Photography, Projects, Science, Technique, tagged Aluminum, Anodization, Anodized, Blue, Green, Machining, Mechanisms, Rubber Band Gun, Rubber Band Gun #6 on December 7, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Rubber Band Gun M6-001 assembly
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Projects, tagged Engineering, Rubber Band Gun, Rubber Band Gun #6 on October 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just a set of photos regarding the assembly of M6-001.
Rubber Band Gun M6-001
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Interesting, Projects, tagged craftsmanship, Machining, Rubber Band Gun, Rubber Band Gun #6, Toy, Woodworking on October 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
After a long wait, we have finally finished the first of a limited production run of Rubber Band Gun #6… It works great!
A new stock for rubber band gun #6
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Photography, Projects, Technique, tagged craftsmanship, Gun stock, Maple, RBG, Rubber Band Gun, Rubber Band Gun #6, sanding, Stock on October 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In anticipation of receiving the assembly for Rubber Band Gun #6 from Dixon Tool and Die, Inc., we have been making a new rubber band gun stock to complete the package. This stock was hand crafted out of solid 1.75″ x 6.0″ x 48″ slab of maple. The primary tools were bandsaw (for the profile), hammer and chisel, [...]
Rubber Band Gun #6 – four pieces explained
Posted in Engineering, Projects, tagged Pro/Engineer, Rubber Band Gun, Rubber Band Gun #6 on September 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I spent a bit of time this evening taking measurements and verifications, adding pin holes, and communicating with Dixon Tool and Die about pricing, etc… Here are the 4 key parts in the design: Trigger: Pivots on a 3/16″ dowel pin. As the trigger is pulled, the two protrusions from the front move downward into [...]
