Meet the Disintegrator: 24 barrels of rubber band minigun madness

Engadget.com ^ | 01/16/08 | Evan Blass

[Reaganesque]

Click here for the video. Long video. But fun. There's something to be said for creating truly useless stuff just for the fun of it! What that is...I'm not quite sure.

[thackney]

summer project ping

[Hoffer Rand]

I like it. I used to keep one of the little six-shooters in my desk at work. When people came in and asked dumb tech questions (for the 10th time), I would shoot them.

[Joe Boucher]

Should have used a Kimber after the second stupid question. Would have prevented the other 8.

[Rick.Donaldson]

bump for home. Cant see youtube here and they don’t want me to see any pictures, I might accidentally see naked breasts or something - or God Forbid, I might actually see some news article they don’t want me to see

[Sender]

This is great! It perfectly captures the spirit of massive, excessive, gratuitous firepower in a home-safe model. Bravo!

I have one of those Surefire pistols. Hmm. Thoughts are racing faster than I can lock onto them...

What's next...the 50psi air-compressor BB minigun? (Thinking, thinking)

[Reaganesque]

Hey! We could send that in to Mythbusters!

[capt. norm]

Brings back some neat memories (the 1950's) when we used to make them in our neighborhood.

All it took was a spring-type clothespin, a dowel pin and a piece of wood for the handle.

And for 50 cents you could buy a mother-lode bundle of ammunition (rubber bands) at the "Dime Store".

(Kresge's, Ben Franklin, Woolworth, etc.....all gone now)

[NCC-1701]

Has that guy registered that weapon?

[CougarGA7]

I MUST have one!!

[Sender]

It won’t be a myth after I build it ;)

[kingu]

[Sender]

That looks like the model that was created for the Predator movie. Excellent.

Now, to add the air line and BB hopper...extra-large BB hopper...

[Roccus]

In my neighborhood it was linoleum (shingle etc.) guns, very similar. Of course the effects of either were the same. It eliminated all the “Bang! Bang!....I gotcha!”
“No ya didn’t!”
“Yes I did!” arguments.

Plus, you could shoot yer eye out.

[kingu]

Yup, here has a lot of images of the various hoppers, air tanks, etc rigged out for the various steel and airsoft miniguns on the market. The model that was done for the Predator movie is a beast. You can go here to read about it, haven't been to Stembridge in a coon's age, but very much enjoyed shooting with some of the guys there.

And yes, a pre-model was done with propane, did make some of the cuts, but was just seen as being too 'cartoony' and was replaced by a blank firing monster that required a steel rig to keep the thing from flying backwards and was bent at the end of the scene from the force of firing.

[GoLightly]

I'm not quite sure.

If you have to ask...

[capt. norm]

Plus, you could shoot yer eye out.

My Mom had a whole list of "shot your eye out" type lines. Like the other "moms" in our neighborhood, she relied on time-tested scare stories to keep us from doing something she thought to be dangerous....and they pretty much worked. * OK so they nearly always worked (confession is good for the soul).

When us neighborhood kids were eating green apples with salt (nature's most nearly perfect "pick-em-and-eat-em food"), she tells us this horror story about a cousin who died from eating too many green apples. Some of her details of her story would make Edgar Allen Poe cringe.

She had a whole collection of "swimming" stories...enough to make you always shower as opposed to a sit-down bath...."you can drown in six inches of water". Technically, she should have run out of cousins at some point, but it never happened.

My Mom is now 91 years old and we still joke about this. She is quite lucid considering her age, and has a great/sharp sense of humor. She doesn't look anything like Estelle Getty, but she can deliver sharp retorts just as fast.

Estelle Getty, far laft in image:

[Sender]

Dang, it’s been done already. I should have known. But there’s nothing to keep me from tinkering on my own...

[grame]

I bought my husband a 5 shot(rubber bands) pistol from ‘bits and pieces’ catalog. It came with a small target with numbers and they(my grandsons) have tournaments.

[SlapHappyPappy]

Odd fact. Estelle Getty was the youngest of the actresses.