[Sean Khan]

I made this 2 years ago and carry it everywhere. You never know when I might...... you know. Zombie stuff happens and whatnot, yeah?

It's very thin but that's OK because you can't fire it with a hammer grip anyways. No bulge in pocket, yet ready to fire without warning.

The design is by Joerg Sprave... it's a "Rambini". I believe I am the only person on Earth who made it out of PVC.

And don't be fooled by it's size. It sends hexnuts (if used) at FULL POWER. I like to use smaller ammo with this chap, however. Later on that....

Let's make one:

Use heat gun to open up PVC pipe (1 and half inch in this case) into a flat panel. When heated up, you can use tin snips or scissors to cut PVC, no worries.



Cut out patterns, glue to panel and use a scroll saw to cut out. You know.. the usual.



Like so:



I used two. For thickness.







Heavy duty PVC cement:







Everything else is self-explanatory... let the pictures roll:

















Better attachment method:





Unlimited ammo... .22 air-rifle pellets:

 

[Void]

I usually hate everything made from pvc pipe. But this is nicely done. Good job

 

[Ordo]

Nice tutorial.

 

[Ibojoe]

Nice work. Very awesome frame

 

[SLING-N-SHOT]

Cool frame , PVC is so universal......it even makes a great backpacking/hiking Native American "style " flute.

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[mattwalt]

Nice - thats a possible entry for SSOTM Apr

 

[pencil5757]

That is nice! And I would like to see that backpacking/hiking Native American “style “ flute

 

[flipgun]

Did you use Gorilla Glue? Pipe slingshots were a thing here for a while, but not flattened. I have an early aluminum pipe shooter by bobatdraco (Bob Pool) in a TTF. I may have to do a couple. Thanx!

 

[Sean Khan]

Nice - thats a possible entry for SSOTM Apr

Thanks!

Did you use Gorilla Glue?

I have no idea what that is, I'm afraid.

I used PVC cement. It's not quite a glue... it actually melts the PVC together as it dries. More like chemical welding. If you click on the pics twice, you can read the label. As I understand it, there are different grades of PVC cement.. try and get the heavy-duty kind.

I used it.. and not some epoxy.. because it was cheap (only 20 Rupees). :violin:

I've still got the tin... probably useless by now. Doesn't store well.



Any brand PVC cement will work. Is it better than epoxy? I don't know. Epoxy or even any kind of super-glue would work just fine, I guess.

 

[Sean Khan]

Took this pic 5 minutes ago...





Apart from the .22 airgun pellets, this is the other ammo I use with this fellow. Steel balls (taken out from used fan bearings) and cut up nails.

 

[twang]

put some flats on it.

 

[Sean Khan]

Gawd no.... I don't do flats.

 

[Pebble Shooter]

An original frame in view of the material used, that's for sure: well done! :thumbsup:

 

[Tag]

Thanks for sharing nicely done