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’
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 Perspective?
Posted in Perspective, tagged Links, Rubber Band Gun, Rubber Band Gun Perspective on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Take a look at this FeedBurner feed — lots of info on rubber band guns! View, Enjoy, and Share. http://feeds.feedburner.com/RubberBandGunPerspective
Detailed Assembly of Rubber Band Gun M6-002 to M6-005
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Projects, Technique, tagged Assembly, Engineering, M6-002, M6-003, M6-004, M6-005, Machining, Rubber Band Gun on November 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A few photographs of our assembly of M6-002 to M6-005… It all started by laying out all of the pieces for each assembly. Quite a few when you add them all up. Pictured below are the parts for 4 assemblies. Receiver, Pins, Actuator, Hammer, Trigger, Washers, Springs, Bolts, and Nuts, along with some tape to [...]
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 [...]
Rubber Band Gun #6 – springs, etc…
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Interesting, reSearch, tagged McMaster, MSC, Rubber Band Gun, Springs on September 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I visited Dixon Tool and Die, Inc. today to see about having some machining done. Bill Dixon Jr. was very helpful, and explained many of the points that will make the process go easier. Design for available parts and sizes Buy everything you can stock (pins, springs, aluminum channel, etc…) Minimize milling by doing the [...]
Rubber Band Gun #6 and Pro/Engineer Wildfire
Posted in Engineering, Interesting, reSearch, Software, Technique, tagged Pro/Engineer, ProE, Rubber Band, Rubber Band Gun, SolidWorks, Wildfire on September 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I recently purchased a copy of Pro/Engineer Wildfire 5.0, and have been comparing it to SolidWorks. They are both nice programs, and within about a day, I have achieved about the same level of usefulness in ProE as SolidWorks. (Note: all that means is that I am a beginner at this). Anyway, I wished to [...]
