I Now Have a Taser!

Or maybe Johnny Knoxville is looking for new talent.

Hey Whisthekillier weren’t you on the boards a while back looking for a project. We recommended all kinds of nice safe projects but you had to go and build something dangerous. I can relate, after all the dangerous projects are a lot more fun. Schools have changed a lot. In HS my friend made a working crossbow. The wood teacher helped him with the stock and the machine shop teacher helped with the hardware. Now he would probably get in trouble just for asking to make it.
So what can you do with your taser? If it has enough range it might be a neat way to start up the grill. Fill the grill with some charcoal. Pour on a lot of lighter fluid. Point your taser at it and Kaboom! Actually starting a grill with a taser would probably be difficult. It might turn out to be your next project.

Crossbows? Tasers? What ever happened to making horse-head bookends in shop class?

Jeez.

OH please. I remember seeing the cover of some old (1940s?) boys magazine with instructions on how to add a propeller to your sled. The illustration had no prop guard and was front mounted. Very safe.
Whisthekiller is on his way to being MacGiver. (the cool one)

Now go make a Tesla Coil and make it play the Dr. Who music, or Iron Man, that would be cool too.

It has to be horse head bookends.

Whatever you do, don’t try it on yourself, not even for a second!:smiley:

And yeah, now that you’ve put it together, I’d say the safest thing probably is to carefully disable it and toss it and move onto something safer, like a backyard trebuchet.

Fun fact, if you read the Residence Life Handbook for Texas A&M University, you will find that “Catapults, Trebuchets, and other siege machinery” are banned from the dormitories. I would have loved to hear the story behind THAT rule! :stuck_out_tongue:

Why don’t you make yourself a costume, perhaps shorts, tights, a cloak and a mask (of course to protect your identity) so that you don’t stand out in your neighborhood and then hang around trouble spots Tasing violent drunks and litter bugs.
Everyones got to have a hobby,right?

My wood shop teacher was helping a kid with his horse-head bookends and cut off the tip of his (the teacher’s) finger…

…very dangerous, those bookends. :wink:

What did they put on his tombstone, “a shocking departure”? Or was the person shocked, but not electrocuted?

This is where siblings come in handy…
I keed, I keed… :stuck_out_tongue:

If I was in your shoes, and I just built the sun gun, I know my next step: if you really want to shock something, why not go out and grab some raw meat and just give that a shock and see what it does to the flesh? Just make sure you’re not holding the meat as you proceed to shock it and take some precautions, but hey, it’s the next step at least in your path to world domination.

That’s very dangerous. Now make sure you never ever go do something even more dangerous like make a coil gun. That would be super dangerous and could get you in trouble. Then make sure you don’t take a video of you shooting a pumpkin and loading it to youtube for us to watch. Because I don’t want to see anything FREAKING AWESOME, I mean dangerous.

I knew some kids at church camp that would do this. These were the same kids that would put other kids in sleeper holds until they passed out, just for kicks.

I found it odd that girls would line up for the guys to do this.

Yes, he was shocked, not electrocuted. I actually didn’t know electrocution implied death. :o

“Sun gun”?

Perhaps you are correct. There are eas to build solar furnace kits. And it would cook meat.
Wisthekiller should consider it, in lieu of a stun gun.

Hey, if it was good enough for Archimedes, why not our intrepid young doper!
Forget the 1920’s stun ray, when you can have a 212BC Sun Ray!
http://www.articlesextra.com/archimedes-solar-death-ray.htm

Hmmm.

Hey, does the timer on the camera still work?

I bet you could use it to launch fireworks remotely. Assuming fireworks are legal in your area.
Or model rockets.

Or… other things.