My First Mini

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BigGrib
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Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:19 am

And what a mini it is. I took the idea from the Office Gun of Destruction thread. Basically got myself a pill bottle and a bic pen, drilled a hole in the bottom of the bottle for the pen tube barrel and marine epoxyed the barrel in. I took my old piezo bbq ignitor from my CSG24-EI and drilled 2 5/64" holes, inserted the wires, and epoxyed them in as well. I used the old pen assembly (ie tip, collar, and ink tube) as a projectile, leaving about 1/8" between the muzzle and edge of the collar so as not to pack it in too tight, with about a 5 second burst of butane from my bic lighter this thing embedded itself about 1/4" into my wall. Flies about 50' or so. I'm going to give it to one of my retard buddies and tell him this is the only spud gun I trust him with as he has been know to muzzle sweep with mine. :roll:

Update: I found a bunch of bolts for my old crossbow, and after taking the tail off of one of them I found that it fits perfectly in the barrel of the mini. I just shot this at my wall and the bolt penetrated probably 90% of the way through the wall. ;)
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Yea, that's definitely going to get you at least a tazer.
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Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:38 pm

simple/ghetto nothin special.minis really are bad if you dont put a little bit of work into them like butane,very long barrel,burst disc,etc.Nice gun anyway.
current projects: co-axial piston valve.Status DONE!
S.P.E.C.S update mk 1 construction begining in febuary all the maths for it are done plans are drawn up and parts are listed.
NEXT project:auto piston valve.
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Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:16 pm

Thanks it's just a way to pass time sitting around. It's kind of fun to sit there with your buddies and shoot spit wads out of em
Yea, that's definitely going to get you at least a tazer.
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