The Disintegrator minigun shoots 40 rubber bands per second
You're going to want to turn off your speakers for this one. Actually, just to be on the safe side, you may want to light them on fire, smash them with an axe and then pour hydrochloric acids over the spark-spitting shards. This video has terrible music. But the reward is worth it: a look at the Disintegrator, a rubber band mini-gun made out of wood that fires its payload at an incredible 40 rounds per second. Of course, loading it is an hour long affair, but that's a small price to pay for the pleasure of turning your office colleagues into a perforated column of meat jelly during an impromptu office rubber band fight.
The Disintegrator [YouTube]
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I worked in an office which had the single-barrel version of this rubber-band gatling gun. Nice simple mechanism. Fun to demonstrate, but a bit of a nuclear flyswatter... better as something brought out for ceremonial events, or just displayed for folks to ponder, than as a day-to-day toy.
(I always preferred the no-equipment rubberband gun: Extend index finger, loop rubberband from there around back of thumb and across palm to pinkie, hook it there. Point at target in classic little-kid "bang" position, twitch pinkie to shoot.)
it looks like fun but it would require too much to reload to make the time justified
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Would rock at school !
I'm more impressed by the floppys standing on end, on top of a sheet too. Cool!
I don't understand. There were people there, in the video, but he wasn't firing elastic bands at them?