Anybody else just like making stuff?

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I make all sorts of things in my shop: Some just to see if they'll work, others just for the hell of it, and yet others because I'd like to try something out. As well as go carts, mini bikes, ride on mowers, recumbents, drop saws, table saws, wood lathes and what not, I also made these two zombie dispatchers, quite a while ago, in case of a zombie apocalypse, hasn't happened yet. But I'm ready. I know from watching all the tutorials on Netflix that you have to shoot them in the head. The crossbow isn't that powerful, but it is accurate enough for headshots, just a little slow. The rifle slingshot is extremely accurate and reasonably powerful, I have some more surgical rubber coming, the new slingshot rifle will have three bands each side, so if there are a line up of zombies, one ball should dispatch three or four at a time. Still tossing up on whether to make a repeater or not, zombies usually attack in packs, so a repeating rifle slingshot might be better I think. I cheated on the slingshot trigger mechanism, bought it on ebay. No, trigger mechanisms available for crossbows, so I had to make one. The slingshot rifle fires ball bearings, I have a box of 8mm balls, also from ebay.
 

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I LOVE making useful (or fun) stuff out of whatever I have laying around. I usually wind up buying a few odds and ends to create the finished project, but the germ of the idea is something in my junque pyle.

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Go Kart from a lawn tractor.

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Boat hauling winch from reefer engine and S10 transmission

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Tractor mounted weed whacker from the string head off a dead Crapsman walk-behind.
 
I made go carts for the kids back in the early 80s from 125cc Victa two stroke lawnmower engines. The crankshafts were full circle, so I had to disassemble the cranks, cut huge chunks out of the webs to balance them, the stick them back together. The last one I made for the kids had a full house motor: Shaved head, twin carbs, expansion chamber and so on. The kids refused to use it though, it scared them.
I made another for myself in the 90s when stationed in the Territory. The motor was a twin cylinder two stroke for which I made a couple of expansion chambers. This was a barrel of fun racing around on the gravel tracks at the back of The base in Tindal. Didn't have any brakes, so stopping was a matter of shifting down through the gears - very quickly. I remember the wife pacing me in our 4WD, she later said she was doing 80kph, but I pulled away from her, so I've no idea how fast the thing went. Ended up melting the pistons a few months later. I didn't have lathes and mills and stuff back then, so they were just hacksaw and weld jobs.
 

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