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[DoubleLnL]

After reading about ItalionStallion using lightsaber rings as ammo for Vortex guns, I started to think about other ways to make them. My friend just recently discovered he had a Tornado X/2 but none of the rubber rings. First he tried one just out of a couple layers of duct tape despite my warnings. He managed (somehow) to get it stuck behind the whole bolt system. So after fixing that all up, I cut a large toilet paper tube to the correct length, adjusted it to fit, and wraped a few layers of duct tape around it to hold it together.

It was a bit of a tight fit, but slid on after a bit of force. I stood at the end of my kitchen and tested the new ammo. The results were not as good as I had hoped, as the new rings flew only about 20 ft and curved down and to the right after 15 or so. I think it did that because the ammo isn't exactly round. After I get done with my pile of homework for the weekend, I plan on trying to make one out of many layers of duct tape instead of just a few. Snce my idea didn't work out very well so far, I was wondering if you guys had any ideas or improvements you think/know would work well.

EDIT: Oh and on another topic, until just recently I had no idea that my friend with the Tornado X/2 was actually BigHaulOfNerf. He said he plagiarized (sp?) because he wanted to be "in". He can be pretty queer when he puts his mind to it.

Edited by DoubleLnL, 04 April 2004 - 01:09 PM.

[ompa]

Lol. It's a small world, isn't it? Anyways, I bet you could take a toilet paper roll that you would cut to the correct size, then put like a small straw around the outside of it (wrap the straw around the toilet paper roll). Then wrap a layer of duct tape around it. I think that's what you did, except without the straw. I just suggest the straw to make it more like the shape that the original rubber rings are- they are thicker at one end. By the way, I meant those really skinny straws you use for stirring, not the thick ones.

~ompa

[texmustache]

Just once, i assume, you wrappen the duct tape around?(That was confusing). I doubt you saw my NHQ post, but i suggest you try by wrapping it is several layers of electrical tape, decreasing in size. So, depending on how long it is, you'd wrap the front around 8 times, then a little back, 7, then a little back, 6, and so on and so forth. That makes it more like an air-foil, and THAT is why vortex ammo shoots so far.

[DoubleLnL]

Well sorta. My friend used only one layer of duct tape and then I tried it with 3 or 4. Ompa, stirring straws have always seemed unflexible to me. Whenever I bend them, they tend to bend at 90 degree angles, which aren't very suitable for wrapping around a toilet paper tube. What I could try, though, is wrapping more layers around of duct tape around the front than the back, so that it would gradually slope from one end to the other like texmustache. Since I don't actually have any Vortex rings or have seen them in person, I am just estimating on their length and thickness. Thanks for the suggestions.

[UpGraD3]

Instead of using a straw, you could use a show string, or a small string.

[ompa]

Yeah that's it! Anyways, I guess I just have more luck with those fiesty straws than you do . I never thought about using string... shows how low my IQ is. Best of luck with that, tell me how it goes! I need some more ammo for my X2 and firestorm as well. (No they're not for sale)

~ompa

[DoubleLnL]

On a semi-related note, are the only differences between the Tornado and the Tornado X/2 the stock and the color?