Wifey wants a...PINK MINIGUN?

First off- I can't-won't-ain't-don't-wouldn't-couldn't-shouldn't-don't supposed to,
Make you a minigun*. Please don't ask, and turn my post here into useless SPAM.

The book-keeper got to the image files and added a website bug, and these ARE the only versions on have on file. So please mentally blur out the site names, and just concentrate on keeping all YOUR fingers safe.

Yes, I have minigun patterns, and here's a secret:
You Won't Need Them.
Cause I'm gonna show you, start to finish, how I make one (Several Cavemen watching can and will do it). This is a simple way to make a fun toy, and it's basically a disguise for an airsoft M14 clone. The "six-pack" of barrels rotate around the M14's barrel, it does the actual firing. A cut-down Harbor Freight drill turns the barrels to complete the illusion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9TFsivxzMc

*NOTE: This coming image is #00001. We'll be done around image #00084.
So two things. One, if you're on dial-up, shut off your dinosaur, and head to your rich cousin's house to go any further. Smell that smoke? It's coming from your modem already.
Two, if you duplicate these efforts, you'd hold onto the results too.

Ok, THREE things: This is NOT the parts used for any pattern I make. This is the discontinued "Hailforce" body, with some tweaks to the design.

Let's Go.

Holes laid out, main body is bonded to "delinker" tube with Oatey ABS cement. A cake-decorating bottle is used to cleanly apply the glue.


Pilot holes are drilled with a small bit.


And then a mondo-sized step bit is used to hog them out.


The hand-held jig saw comes into play for the straight cuts.


Making the slot for the drive belt in the front of the main body tube. Two main cuts are done with the sabre saw, then a sharp blade is used to deeply score the last cut.


Then the part is snapped out, and the cuts cleaned up...


With a handy rasp/file combo tool.


After the "motor body" gets its belt slot done similarly, the two are aligned and bonded up. The tiny hole seen here comes into play a bit later on.


Now the HARD PART: Walk away, human, just walk away...let it set up solid for a few hours.

Next up: The Control Yoke.

I'll let pics talk for a while, it's break time....














...more pics...


















I'll be back in a bit...

"Watch your language".

It's substantially smaller than the last build. (I forgot to NAME it!!! It's now known as "The T600")


wondering where I got the square tubing? They're "balusters", commonly used on stair railings as vertical supports. Got 'em at Lowe's, and I HATE shopping there!(they've learned nothing from the failure of Albertson's, add four "self-serve" checkouts, and leave most of the others unmanned... But sometimes, you have to go where materials are available).


The drive end of the pack. The center tube sticks into the mini, and has a vacuum cleaner belt around it. In the middle is a cut-down M14 barrel. It will be anchored into the main body tube, and becomes the "axle" that the pack spins on.



Time to wet-sand the body and prime it for paint.


I'll have to whip up the ammo chute today as well. I have a bin full of links now, so it will go FAST....


The "motor" gets a slip-on end cover for tool-less belt access. Unscrewing the grey caps allows the yoke to be slid away from the rear mount, and off the gun.


This will be a very un-cluttered design.


If it doesn't need to be here, I didn't include it. Designing your own stuff frees you from a lot of the constraint that copying actual items entails.


and off to painting with these!

my question, so you said;

Yes, I have minigun patterns, and here's a secret:
You Won't Need Them.
Cause I'm gonna show you, start to finish, how I make one (Several Cavemen watching can and will do it). This is a simple way to make a fun toy, and it's basically a disguise for an airsoft M14 clone. The "six-pack" of barrels rotate around the M14's barrel, it does the actual firing. A cut-down Harbor Freight drill turns the barrels to complete the illusion:


I don't seem to quite understand how to get it exact.... YES I AM STUPIDER THAN A CAVEMAN!!

Exact is a PITA. I don't do exact. If you ask me what the diameter of the barrel pack is,...I have no clue. I'd have to look at the CAD.
As you can see, I've been "making stuff" for years. Over time, you learn what works and what doesn't. This minigun is just the best parts of many past projects.

On each custom build, I've learned something new to carry forward, and something mistaken to avoid.

Stick stuff together, see if it works, why or why not, make notes, review same. I buy stacks of graph paper pads to design on, and keep every single one as its filled up.
Once in a while, I pull one at random and go back looking for ideas to steal from myself.

I do a LOT of work for Future Killbucket.

do you still design?)


thnx

I doodle stuff all the time. Never know what I might come up with.

true, like my watercolors!

Primed. I do a LOT of painting...look at the buildup on the rack!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLRLhV9U0kQ

(gotta "get in the pink mood")



Enough PINK to make yer Daddy gay.


Krylon's 2922 watermelon.


Yep, buttons and all. Later on, I'll go back and paint the hat switch (that I personally hand-cast!) and trigger RED.


Speaking of RED, the whole thing is "brighter than" the red tip spec'd by federal laws...so, it technically doesn't need one.


This will really come alive with the hardware and other bits added.

Now the hard part- forget it exists while the paint dries properly.

"Walk away. Just walk away" -Lord Humongous, in MadMax2

Great advice to use, in SO many situations.
I got funny looks shopping for a girl's pink belt at Walley World- I need one to make a shoulder strap from.

is the black minigun real or fake?

fake!

GOOD!!!!!!!

For now, this gun's name is "Operation: Petticoat".


Assembling an uber-short short ammo belt for Operation: Petticoat.


An 18gauge wire serves as the "spine", alternated back-and-forth between links. A small knot at each end holds it all together securely.


And then off to the sander with it to remove those production burrs.
Mounts for the center "axle":

Four very-simple 3.02" diameter discs, one 1" PVC butt-connector.
...huh-huh-huh, I said "butt connector"...
The black metal pipe shown is the outer barrel robbed from the M14 airsoft gun donor.


Connector is cut down to exactly 1.75" long, and bonded between the discs. I used a scrap chunk of 3" ABS pipe as a gluing fixture.

Next, I'll turn grooves into the aluminum M14 barrel, and then the butt-connector will be filled with bondo to lock it in place. It will be as solid as a rock when I'm done.


The M14 barrel, with 4.25" removed, and the end just trimmed of paint.
The grooves were cut at semi-random intervals (1/4 lathe knob turn-"fuzzy math"!), and it's ready to be bondo'd into place.

Dang, I should have had the robot drill the fill and vent holes for the filling process.

And cordless drills seem to be getting scarce around here!


Those should do.

Wifey's Contribution.


Bondo is put into a baggie, kneaded for a few moments, and is ready.

This image wasn't a joke...We got the news today, Wifey has Stage 1.

More pics coming.

man! ive seen that on a bumper sticker, my mom freaked out

...more on this tomorrow!

Wow uberness man.

ncis wrote:

man! ive seen that on a bumper sticker, my mom freaked out

But now she's been made aware. And that outweighs being offended!
It's treatable, because it was found EARLY. And that's the end of the PSA.
Thank you all for your sympathy!


The drive motor/transmission, from what else? A Harbor freight cordless drill!
The drive roller is made from a bolt and Oatey gray putty stick. I put a blob on the bolt, let it set, and turned it on the lathe.


The completed, wired up grip. Both the hat switch and the trigger have to be pressed for firing, so either finger can be used for firing: thumb or index. Together, they are the "safety" for this gun, there will be NO on/off toggle.

The ammodrive is similar to the one on the T600:

Inset: M4 hicap with modified RC servo (tutorial here) http://www.air-sharp.com/magmod.html and chutes made from 3mm ABS sheet stock.


about how the chute will mount.

Off to the CNC to make the drive motor mounts.

FINISHED!!!!











There is less than $50 in what you've seen so far. The REAL cost is in the development of parts that all work together. This one was made to look simple, by all the previous builds you didn't see.

I've put together over 75 of these!

jeez...... next it will be a extra large gearbox for 10mm bbs right?

just prototypes or are you selling them? hint hint

SOLD. Those, and the dozens that followed, are spread all over the planet. One went to Iceland!
Not making any more, except for me. I'm actually retired.

Please don't go buy NEW stuff to do this! This kind of project gets exponentially more fun, the more you can shoestring it.

That's the whole methodology behind my work.

Check it out: His n Hers!







Gonna put HD parts in the pink minigun.

Side Note: Why not just do one, HUGE colossal "Killbucket" thread?
The thread gets a bit long, and readers wanting particular projects start getting lost:

http://www.355nation.net/forum/off-topic/14299-killbucket-project-fake-madmax2-motor-more.html
11,248 reads since January 5th, 2009 -that's GOOD.
FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES -that's bad.

is that how to build it? and nice chrome finish and yours loos uncomfturable to shoot

All miniguns are uncomfortable to shoot. ALL of them kick your butt, because of the sheer mass in them.