Posted: 6/26/2004 6:18:44 PM EDT
| Anyone else make these as a kid? The potato gun thread got me thinking about the shit I used to MacGuyver when I was younger. All you need is a sewing needle, scotch tape and a pencil eraser from the end of a pencil. Just push the needle through the eraser and then fold a piece of tape into a y shape and slip the blunt end of the needle into the space where the y meets. Pretty accurate and fun to whip around the house. |
Oooo thas a good one. Im gonna go do that now lol. |
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We used those small "strike anywhere" wooden matches, thread, a straight pin, and paper for the fins. Scraped the head off the match, tied the straight pin to it with thread, then took a pocket knife (EVERY kid in school had one. No one got stabbed or cut. Go figure) split the other end and inserted a strip of paper for fins. Worked quite well, sticking into those asbestos ceilings. Things were so much simpler then.....Odd how 40 years or so changes things. |
No shit, now wed be arrested for having such things in school. |
Some fucktards at the local high school made darts out of tape and pushpins and actually shot them at other students. They were brilliant enough to keep on using the same darts. Result: blood spread around in a school with plenty of HIV+ kids. No positives among those hit that the news reported, but still... Hoppy  8420
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I made blunt darts out of kabok sticks. I wrapped tape around a bunch of matchsticks around the tip for weight. For stabilization I taped a ~6 X .25 inch strip of paper to the tail end. I used them for when the cats would try to tear up the furniture. I'd throw them so that the tip would stick in the carpet just in front of the cat, and the rear would wip up and around to give the cat a nice gentle "cut that the fuck out" Hoppy  8420
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This is similar to the we used to make them. Straight pin and some thread with a dab of glue. I still have 3 or 4 that are about 25 years old. Shoot them through a straw or a gutted bic pen. Worked like a charm. |
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Straight pins, any kind of thread (take an arms length, keep folding it in half to about thumb length, place back end of pin in thread bundle, wrap additional thread around thread and pin like tying a fly, 1 drop of super glue to keep bound, cut to proper length), and a bic biro pen tube (for disguise at school). VERY accurate and fun to make (will stick in just about anything). For greater accuracy and more velocity we cut the ends off of old aluminum arrow shafts to make homemade blowguns. |
| We used to make something we called Tiki Darts. You first take a shoelace and cut a little bit longer than 1/4 inch off of the plastic wrapped anti-fray end. Then take this little cylinder and trim 1/16-1/8 inch of the plastic only off one end. Take a pushpin and push it through the 'frayed' end until the head can go no further in. The head serves to expand the frayed end into nice fabric 'flights'. Voila a dart that can be fired out of a pen. Depending how you did it, your darts could really suck, or be a masterpiece of ballistics, but their lives were usually short. |
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We'd make a little bit bigger darts- used 8d nails and would wrap magazine cover paper around it to make a cone. Used electricians tape to hold the cone together. Then use 1/2 pvc pipe for the blow gun, and cut the end of the dart to fit snugly in the conduit. You could really get those things to stick pretty hard in somethings. I'd bet they would kill a small bird pretty easy. And yes, these were not to be aimed at humans |
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I used to make darts out of Q-tips, too. Only I found that an 8d finishing nail with the head cut off could be "press fit" into the hollow plastic tube. I then would shoot them out of my BB gun or CO2 pistol. I still occasionally make these "single use" darts for covert ops.  Dave |