@@carlosAlvarez-gf5effew years ago he became a commercial shill for overpriced garbage bows. Rarely ever makes good content anymore so this is a treat.
I have to say this and I really hope you see this, Joerg. But, for some reason, seeing you with another crazy slingshot in your hands today brought back so many nostalgic feelings of the "good old days" of RUclips. RUclips felt like the Wild Wild West when I found you about 15 years ago, and you truly were the wildest guy of the bunch. The tight t-shirts, big muscle, cool sunglasses, awesome video intro - I still remember the music - and badass slingshots were so much fun. I was about 14 or 15 years old when I found a video of you destroying a motorbike helmet in your old back garden with a little handheld slingshot and I've been a fan ever since. My friends in school and I used to watch the video where the steel ball bounced back and smashed the glass in your back window and the one where you set off fireworks for New Year and they misfired and exploded onto the roof of your house and laugh our asses off over the craziness haha. That, and we would always say your catch phrases along with you. "12 millimeter steel balls" and "LET ME SHOW YOU IT'S FEATURES. HAHAHA." were our favourites. You reminded us of a real life version of "The Heavy" from Team Fortress 2, which was huge at the time. Your arc of making different types of machines for destroying zombies was one of our absolute favourites. All of this to say, thank you so much for the amazing memories and for still working hard on creating content to this day. I'm looking forward to seeing whatever crazy invention you cook up next. It would be great to see you bring out the old intro AND a bunch of the old slingshots for once last round. That's it for my comment today. Thanks and bye bye 👍
I want a zombie game featuring only Jorge's homemade weapons. Go scavenge parts, bring them to Jorge (and cash), after he upgrades your weapons you hear "Let me show you it's features"
Well Jorge, you now have me thinking about a shoulder mount bazooka type set up with automatic ball feed. Run all the pre tensioner pulleys inside a PVC tube with a landing over the top for the sling shot. A shoulder mount underneath that fits snug front and back of the body with a pistol grip up front of the tube that also serves as a ratchet for the mechanism. Make it into a ballzooka.
I have been watching your videos since I was 13, I'm 21 now and your videos greatly influenced my hobbie in making my own slingshots. It's great to see your still passionate about using rrrrubbber hah hah hahh!
Mechanically, it seems similar to the instant legolas, but it's a slingshot with no magazine. Good use of the pulley thing to assist the draw weight. Looks deadly.
Joerg! I just shed a small tear because i remember watching your videos pre pandemic and re found your channel at a personal low point this evening. Thank you for feeling like home.
Der Kanal hat einfach mit Inhalt und ohne krassen Videoschnitt und all dem Kram den man sich heute so ausdenkt über 3 Mio Abos, das ist wirklich unfassbar. Meinen Respekt. Damals bei Stefan Raab schon darauf Aufmerksam geworden. Weiter so
After years of watching, I am never disappointed. As an American living in Germany, I love watching Joerg finding loopholes in Germany's absolutely insane weapons laws, like their pocket knife laws. Just make a law saying you cannot stab people..
If we did there would be so many exceptions and exceptions to the exceptions that everybody would become confused and stab each other because we thought it's mandatory.
Thank you for the slingshot content. :) Just an idea: Wouldn't a cam (like you see on compound bows) instead of a normal roller and then some shortish form of spring (doesn't have to be fast, could be coil, limb or gas maybe) instead of a rubber band be benefical to this fun setup? I imagine one could have a comfortable letoff while grabbing the pouch and then have a steady or even increasing assisting force (depending on the type of spring and the shape of the cam I guess) while pulling back - while not being too bulky, long and prone to wear and tear.
Springs usually only elongate by factor 2, much less if you want linear force. My draw is 94 cm. You would need a looooong steel rod to achieve the same results.
@@Slingshotchannel yes, but it doesn't need to be a coil spring. Just to try to communicate the concept I had in my mind better: Imagine compound bow limbs attached to the front of the slingshot, but reverse (hypothetical arrow flying towards you). But instead of an arrow you had a rod pushing your hand back, assisting you while drawing the pouch. Or the same limbs attached at the back of the slingshot but with a rope pulling your hand back while you reach for the pouch (as it works now with the rubber). In both cases the letoff would make it easy to grab the pouch and the lever springs would have a better force distribution over the whole range than rubber (I suspect). Now I don't know much about what kinds of springs exist - but maybe there are some that can do the same as bow limbs (force over a long distance with better f-distribution than rubber) but with a smaller footprint/less of a cantilever? Like the springs on that Lancehead maybe or in the coil bow you made? Maybe there are some long, dampened gas tension springs or something, I don't know. :) They don't have to be fast. Then you wouldn't need two limbs (for balance) but just one form of spring and one cam roller for the letoff.
I come for @MikeShake . You are the god of the slingshot, it brings back many memories for me. There was a time when I was obsessed with your channel, before I started trying things on my own on YT. I follow you, big greetings!
I see what you're saying, Jorge. The draw-assisting band helps in pulling back the 4 strong propelling bands. Great. But the farther you pull back on the propelling bands, the less assist is provided by the draw-assist band because it's going back to not stretched. So the length of your frame and the two draw lengths have to be a balance, some compromise in one aspect for one gain in another aspect. So your slingshot skeleton and bands strengths and draws are all set at a balance. It's another proof that you're a genius at these weapons designing! Thanks much for showing it. Oh, made a good atlatl. And discovered an atlatl is the most un-accurate weapon in existence. About 20% spear travel distance was gained, and about 25% accuracy was lost. Unless a person wants to spend 30% of their awake hours practicing. 👍😁👍
With another pulley at the front, you could add even more length to the rubber assist. This would further counter the effect of the rubber loosing its stretch.
Probably could make it so you could cock with a foot brace like they put on the end of a crossbow. They’re really hard to draw too especially if you’re getting older lol they do make wind up Cocker’s for them though.
I would love to see this developed more, Joerg! If Mike can increase his slingshot-power potential by these means, we would all love to see what you can do!
I feel like a rack and pinion is perfect here. Put a loop on the back of the cup. Attach this to a post at the end of the rack. Mount a guide rail for the rack, then interface a gear with the rack, and a lever with a ratchet to the gear. Now you can crank the rack and the pouch back one crank of the lever at a time. Use a trigger pull to lift the loop off the post, and it fires. Then lift the ratchet to slide the rack forward, re-set that loop on the post, and repeat.
It looks amazing! Putting the back screw on a rail would make it a lot easier to control it I think, you don't have to worry about position (as much) or about the assist not letting go since it would be attached and limited by the rail.
Some time in the late 2010s, Mattel filed a patent for a Boomco blaster that used this principle with springs, to help prime a pump action or bolt action rifle. Sadly, the brand folded before it went into production, but this is a very neat spiritual successor to the idea.
Another idea: what about cocking a slingshot with the leg, the leg is more powerful and you can use you own weight in your benefit, we are talking about a lot of power, but doing it wrong can kill you
Dear Jörg, thank you very much for your laughing and also for your intense and inspired work. Especially in the last few years it was you that kept me holding on. And i've got the feeling , that i'm not the only one. I worked for over 40 years as a professional musician and was doing quite well with it. But this Corona stuff threw me off the rails and i'm trying very hard to get back where i belong. But as many other artists too, i first had to sell all of my eqipement, before getting help. And in 2 months i ll get kicked out of my appartement and will be homeless. But that's not what i wanted to write in first place - on the other hand, sometimes wired random stuff happens...but only if you let other peiple know about. Okay, concerning your cool idea: to me there is one problem left . The limiting factor is now the strength of your fingers. Because they are the connection now. Yes, you can stretch now 4 mercyless rubberbands much wider due to the support of the add on. But then xou still have to hold ( or rather fix) the puchet ( sorry, i can t remember all these terms), .but i hope u see what i mean. I'm doing freeclimbing and hard bouldering for about 30 years now and have built up some helpfull power in my handmuscles ( yes i know, the fingers are only the servants... the muscles for them are placed mainly at the underarms...) and solid bones, tendons, joint capsulas. So probably my fingers are as strong as yours, concerning gripping power - but in all other aspects i am lightyears away from your power. I guess i couldn't even use a slingshot with only 2 yellow bands. It could end like " Bizarre: Ex musician found dead with a slingshot stuck in his head. Was it suicide ? Our expert from our sports ressorts told us, that usually the slingshot itself isn't shot - therefore steelballs are used. The slingshot itself usually isn't shot anywhere.....stay tuned..." Have i missed something ? If not, then we need a tool, that allows to connect the slingshot pouch with the end of the helping rubber line - and THAT IS THE CRUX - which can be "released" = disconnected, right at the moment of shooting. It must be save and relieable and work in milliseconds, so it doesn't hinder the 4 yellow wild horses on their WARP2 race forward. I guess, this tool already exists. As so often. But is serving for some complete different task. Until now. And my thoughts wander to the old trigger mechanisms for crossbows...and...hum... then we could end up with a. ... crossbow 😂 Some sort of Schrödingers thing. It oszillates between a slingshot and a crossbow. Strange.... And of course it may not collide with any weapon laws. If this might be the case or could destroy some slingshot powerjunkies' life, physicly or in terms of justic, please delete this comment. Those are only some thoughts of mine. In case they are helpful or interesting i'm glad. But if they can do bad things , please kick them. All best wishes, that also goes to this huge community Wolfgang
Instead of that fiddly pin+loop catch that you show at 2:59 to 3:22, I would just have affixed the hand loop to the grip end of the beam with a meter or so of normal rope. (When you pull the hand loop forwards, the rope just goes slack. When you want to take your hand out of the loop, the rope holds it from going back too far automatically. And when you release the pouch with a lot of force in your arm, it would also keep your hand from snapping back violently; which could and give the long rubber band the 5mm or so of slack that it needs to jump off the roller, or even just smack your hand into the roller.)
Awesome technology showcase. The real world examples are always so interesting. This is how much of the legolarific bow tech came to be. We've even seen this "reflex" type in a wooden bow? I believe so. With bands... interesting.
Sehr clever, gute idee beim Vorwärtsbewegen der Hand schon Zugkraft quasi zu investieren. Anstatt einer Schraube wo das eingehakt ist könntest du eine Klinke dort installieren, die nach hinten sperrt und nach vorne, wenn man "nach vorne" dran zieht, das Band einfach freigibt.
Joerg the secondary band being less useful the more you draw back your main bands actually gives me and idea, where the main body of the sling shot could be made from a pipe with a piston inside, which would allow for the body to become a linear force spring using atmospheric pressure, you could very easily have a 20kg/45lbs spring that is just as effective, at the start of the draw as it is at the end of the draw, and all without increasing the size of this setup in anyway.
The mechanism is essentially allowing you to draw twice and store the energy of both draws into the system; or divide the energy required to draw the main rubber viewed another way. In theory you could use multiple parallel counter bands and pulleys with a locking clip to store even more draws of energy and get ridiculous velocities, but then the whole thing gets heavier, the length constraint could maybe be eased using a clever compound pulley arrangement. Maybe a mounted turret lol?
Joerg; would the wheels on the limbs of compound bows give you a strong early pull and a slight reduction at the grab point? Would using two wheels create too much friction? That would let you reduce the over all length. Awesome use of easily available energy! As to viability; I'll wait to see Sprave v. 3.0- it'll be great by then!
A elektric telescopic pipe could also a solution, when you have pull the string max, the tube can move out maybe 50cm for more tention... ;) Depends on your finger force to hold the steelball you can move more than 50cm.
If I remember correctly, there is a release assist tool in the market for slingshot similar to bow arrow release assist, the slingshot ones would clamp down on the steelball prior to release
Hey Jorge!!! I have some questions for you. First off a little bit about the questions and myself. I'm not a knife guy at all. I know little to nothing about them but there was one knife that once I saw it I absolutely fell in love and NEED TO HAVE IT. the knife I'm talking about is the Acta Non-Verba Anthropoid. My only problem is it is very expensive. I learned that it is a fairbairn sykes design which actually goes perfect because my weapon loadout is actually modern interpretations of World War II weapons like my Springfield Garrison 1911 and my soon to have M1A that I'm going to configure into a paratrooper M1A1 with the paratrooper folding stock and pistol grip. Now all I need is a knife and I can't think of a better one than a fairbairn sykes knife. So my questions are... What is the best fairbairn sykes on the market? Is there a fairbairn sykes that is high quality but cheaper than the Acta Non-Verba Anthropoid? Should I go without a knife until I can afford the Acta Non-Verba Anthropoid? Like I said once I saw that knife I absolutely fell in love. I've tried looking at other fairbairn sykes models but none have shown to have the same high quality of the Acta Non-Verba Anthropoid. I would be so incredibly appreciative if you even read this let alone give me any advice. Thank You So So Much For Your Time! And All The Years Of Fantastic Entertainment! I have been a fan of the slingshot channel for goodness..... Probably over 10 years now? Anyway I won't take up any more of your time. I would really really appreciate it if you could help me out!!! Thanks Jorge!!!!! Sincerely, A Long Time Fan A.P. aka The Catman.
How about a multi-stage load? Manually pull the payload back halfway to a latch attached to a mechanical advantage slider. The handle portion could run the entire length and the latch portion only the back half. The final draw could 2:1 of (nearly) your entire wingspan to pull the carriage back an extra couple feet. Bonus of being incredibly accurate.
Quick release mechanism is needed. First you cock white band to its maximum and lock it in this mechanism, which is located where you can pull yellow bands to. Then you pull yellow bands as much as you can to this point, hook your hand OR puch to that mechanism, which also releases in process, letting you pull another +100% of power.
Good thinking as always ! I'm sure the execution will get a lot better. A thought: Couldn't you create more tension by putting the front handle a bit backwards on the rail? Like that you would also have less rail sticking out behind you while keeping the same total amount of distance. Update: Just saw you already did that. Why not here ?
Seriously though, it feels like this kind of application of physics should have more of an affect on us. Or that it would have if we hadn't basically surrendered effort to machines, not that that's a bad thing. Getting my head around this is making me look at everything different. I feel like I'm in a 70s Sci-Fi movie dream sequence.
Very interesting concept Joerg. Big thanks once again for the amazing tips you gave me!
It was my pleasure to help you out. Glad you like my concept! But it isn't really viable at this point.
This is finest german brain thinking, I'm sure I'd end up slapping myself in the face trying this
How about doing a "rowing machine instant Legolas" for some serious fire power? :D
@@Slingshotchannel make a gzk slingbow
A slingshot?!!! On the sli..... JoergSprave channel?????
Why are people like you around always moaning
Surprised me too 😂
When did this change or is this a different channel 😅
@@carlosAlvarez-gf5effew years ago he became a commercial shill for overpriced garbage bows. Rarely ever makes good content anymore so this is a treat.
@@KandiKlover what is a bow but a better slingshot? He still makes interesting videos. Don't be rude.
I have to say this and I really hope you see this, Joerg. But, for some reason, seeing you with another crazy slingshot in your hands today brought back so many nostalgic feelings of the "good old days" of RUclips.
RUclips felt like the Wild Wild West when I found you about 15 years ago, and you truly were the wildest guy of the bunch. The tight t-shirts, big muscle, cool sunglasses, awesome video intro - I still remember the music - and badass slingshots were so much fun.
I was about 14 or 15 years old when I found a video of you destroying a motorbike helmet in your old back garden with a little handheld slingshot and I've been a fan ever since. My friends in school and I used to watch the video where the steel ball bounced back and smashed the glass in your back window and the one where you set off fireworks for New Year and they misfired and exploded onto the roof of your house and laugh our asses off over the craziness haha. That, and we would always say your catch phrases along with you. "12 millimeter steel balls" and "LET ME SHOW YOU IT'S FEATURES. HAHAHA." were our favourites. You reminded us of a real life version of "The Heavy" from Team Fortress 2, which was huge at the time. Your arc of making different types of machines for destroying zombies was one of our absolute favourites.
All of this to say, thank you so much for the amazing memories and for still working hard on creating content to this day. I'm looking forward to seeing whatever crazy invention you cook up next. It would be great to see you bring out the old intro AND a bunch of the old slingshots for once last round. That's it for my comment today. Thanks and bye bye 👍
Same here
It's depressing what RUclips has taken from us.
“let me show you its features”
i’m only here to hear those words and then see the mayhem afterwards.
I want a zombie game featuring only Jorge's homemade weapons. Go scavenge parts, bring them to Jorge (and cash), after he upgrades your weapons you hear "Let me show you it's features"
haHAhahaHAHAha!
It's a breath of fresh air to see you back at crazy slingshots, hope to see more of it!
This is wonderful! Reminds me of the way Fleas store power for their jump.
I watched Mike’s video and was incredibly impressed with your helpful response. I was hoping we’d see some kind of follow up on your channel!
I love these madcap inventions, the best bit is they work.
Well Jorge, you now have me thinking about a shoulder mount bazooka type set up with automatic ball feed. Run all the pre tensioner pulleys inside a PVC tube with a landing over the top for the sling shot. A shoulder mount underneath that fits snug front and back of the body with a pistol grip up front of the tube that also serves as a ratchet for the mechanism. Make it into a ballzooka.
You need to hop on to CAD and get this designed, it sounds class!
Ballzooka. That's what I give my wife 3 times a week
I have been watching your videos since I was 13, I'm 21 now and your videos greatly influenced my hobbie in making my own slingshots. It's great to see your still passionate about using rrrrubbber hah hah hahh!
"Let me show you its Features!" Proceeds to Blow a Golf Ball-sized hole through your chest with a Toy.
So happy to see you making slingshot videos again very informative
Genius. After all these years you can still impress me with something new. Also, I am HAPPY to se another slingshot on the Slingshot Channel.
I haven't watched the Slingshot Channel in a long time- this video reminds me why I started in the first place! Awesome!
Mechanically, it seems similar to the instant legolas, but it's a slingshot with no magazine. Good use of the pulley thing to assist the draw weight. Looks deadly.
Joerg! I just shed a small tear because i remember watching your videos pre pandemic and re found your channel at a personal low point this evening. Thank you for feeling like home.
Der Kanal hat einfach mit Inhalt und ohne krassen Videoschnitt und all dem Kram den man sich heute so ausdenkt über 3 Mio Abos, das ist wirklich unfassbar. Meinen Respekt. Damals bei Stefan Raab schon darauf Aufmerksam geworden. Weiter so
5 Bier für die Männer vom Sägewerk..ehm.. messer Erfinder
😂
Joerg makes me wish Germany had less restrictive gun laws, I'd love to see his iterative improvements on firearms.
He should come to America
@@fasted8468so he can vote against our second amendment!?
@@jonjacobjingleheimerschmid3798 ?
@@tijlbru people from other countries that come to America tend to vote for what they had in country they left
@@jonjacobjingleheimerschmid3798 You obviously don't watch the channel. He would not vote against it.
After years of watching, I am never disappointed. As an American living in Germany, I love watching Joerg finding loopholes in Germany's absolutely insane weapons laws, like their pocket knife laws. Just make a law saying you cannot stab people..
That's not enough for us germans 😄 we make up laws for everything
@@loyalm2468 this is not the Germans...it's the anti Germans 👃🏼
If we did there would be so many exceptions and exceptions to the exceptions that everybody would become confused and stab each other because we thought it's mandatory.
@@loyalm2468 that's not form the Germans. Thats the enemy.
Jörg gibt alles für den Schleuder-Spaß. 🎉 weiter so ❤
Good to see ya getting back to your roots here. Would love to see more of this kinda thing!
Thank you for the slingshot content. :)
Just an idea: Wouldn't a cam (like you see on compound bows) instead of a normal roller and then some shortish form of spring (doesn't have to be fast, could be coil, limb or gas maybe) instead of a rubber band be benefical to this fun setup? I imagine one could have a comfortable letoff while grabbing the pouch and then have a steady or even increasing assisting force (depending on the type of spring and the shape of the cam I guess) while pulling back - while not being too bulky, long and prone to wear and tear.
Springs usually only elongate by factor 2, much less if you want linear force. My draw is 94 cm. You would need a looooong steel rod to achieve the same results.
@@Slingshotchannel yes, but it doesn't need to be a coil spring. Just to try to communicate the concept I had in my mind better:
Imagine compound bow limbs attached to the front of the slingshot, but reverse (hypothetical arrow flying towards you). But instead of an arrow you had a rod pushing your hand back, assisting you while drawing the pouch.
Or the same limbs attached at the back of the slingshot but with a rope pulling your hand back while you reach for the pouch (as it works now with the rubber). In both cases the letoff would make it easy to grab the pouch and the lever springs would have a better force distribution over the whole range than rubber (I suspect). Now I don't know much about what kinds of springs exist - but maybe there are some that can do the same as bow limbs (force over a long distance with better f-distribution than rubber) but with a smaller footprint/less of a cantilever? Like the springs on that Lancehead maybe or in the coil bow you made? Maybe there are some long, dampened gas tension springs or something, I don't know. :) They don't have to be fast. Then you wouldn't need two limbs (for balance) but just one form of spring and one cam roller for the letoff.
You're giving me an idea for a "body braced" slingshot.
I come for @MikeShake . You are the god of the slingshot, it brings back many memories for me. There was a time when I was obsessed with your channel, before I started trying things on my own on YT. I follow you, big greetings!
I see what you're saying, Jorge. The draw-assisting band helps in pulling back the 4 strong propelling bands. Great. But the farther you pull back on the propelling bands, the less assist is provided by the draw-assist band because it's going back to not stretched.
So the length of your frame and the two draw lengths have to be a balance, some compromise in one aspect for one gain in another aspect.
So your slingshot skeleton and bands strengths and draws are all set at a balance. It's another proof that you're a genius at these weapons designing! Thanks much for showing it.
Oh, made a good atlatl. And discovered an atlatl is the most un-accurate weapon in existence. About 20% spear travel distance was gained, and about 25% accuracy was lost. Unless a person wants to spend 30% of their awake hours practicing.
👍😁👍
With another pulley at the front, you could add even more length to the rubber assist. This would further counter the effect of the rubber loosing its stretch.
Back to the roots
More crazy gadgets Joerg, I miss that so much
The most beautiful thing in my mind has always been genuine enthusiasm from people, and it's always on full display in these videos.
Keep building this cool stuff! I love it!
love these videos, nothing major or fancy, just a man and his slingshots, love you Joerg, been watching since the start 🙏
Super coole "kooperation", ich habe mir bei Mike auch das Video angeguckt. Gerne mehr in die Richtung, wenn es sich mal ergibt!
That loading mechanism with 2 pins and a magnet is genius and would make an arm brace sling shot ready to go with "one in the chamber"!
Always simple but genius engineering.😊
I had scrolled down to leave a comment when I heard "Ow! Ricochet!" And I had to go see if Joerge was actually hit by the shoot, and barely cared.
This is what we are here for slingshots thank you sir your an incredible inventor
I liked this video, it is light hearted and fun.
Get this guy in the next Call of Duty Advanced Warfare Exo Suit DLC
The design is very human
Short armed people, beware! Love this idea!
Back to the roots, Jörg! 😎👍
Probably could make it so you could cock with a foot brace like they put on the end of a crossbow. They’re really hard to draw too especially if you’re getting older lol they do make wind up Cocker’s for them though.
Now that's the content we slingshot freaks like to see!! AWESOME contraption once again!!
There's no limits for imagination in the slingshot world!!
Absolut genial jörg. Das ist sehr raffiniert umgesetzt.
I so miss the slingshot and all the different types and contraptions you have made before nice to see great work mate 👍🦘🇦🇺
You're a legend, Joerg! 💪
That thing is downright terrifying.
That’s a GREAT IDEA.
So much power in that thing.
amazing. I hope jorge lives forever, honestly
I would love to see this developed more, Joerg! If Mike can increase his slingshot-power potential by these means, we would all love to see what you can do!
Great idea! Cool to see another one of these rubbery contraptions after a bit of a break :)
Hurrah for slingshots!!
Joerg Sprave forever!!
The blood on the handle is what makes it really cool!
Mal wieder eine Schleuder . Wunderbar
you are a genius and I love your personality ... you are having fun and have a humble approach 😊👍👍👍
I have matching fingers! slipped removing some supports from a 3d print and stuck a leather-man blade right into my left index.
I feel like a rack and pinion is perfect here. Put a loop on the back of the cup. Attach this to a post at the end of the rack. Mount a guide rail for the rack, then interface a gear with the rack, and a lever with a ratchet to the gear. Now you can crank the rack and the pouch back one crank of the lever at a time.
Use a trigger pull to lift the loop off the post, and it fires. Then lift the ratchet to slide the rack forward, re-set that loop on the post, and repeat.
Awesome!!! Good to see you back with the good stuff
Your incredibly kind not naming this video, “the real world’s strongest slingshot”. Which you could have. We all know who is boss around here.
Thinking outside the box. Brilliant.
It looks amazing! Putting the back screw on a rail would make it a lot easier to control it I think, you don't have to worry about position (as much) or about the assist not letting go since it would be attached and limited by the rail.
You should make a pocket version Joerg. Love from sweden!
Some time in the late 2010s, Mattel filed a patent for a Boomco blaster that used this principle with springs, to help prime a pump action or bolt action rifle. Sadly, the brand folded before it went into production, but this is a very neat spiritual successor to the idea.
FINALLY, THE GOAT IS BACK
Another idea: what about cocking a slingshot with the leg, the leg is more powerful and you can use you own weight in your benefit, we are talking about a lot of power, but doing it wrong can kill you
Принцип весьма интересен. Но безопасность любой техники это главное . Ваши руки надо беречь .
Awesome.
Wonderful to see a slingshot...
Careful with those blades... ;)
Best channel ever😊
You could have an archer's glove that the assisting band is attached to, and a tension cinch on the release. Cool design!!! Subscribed and liked.
Dear Jörg, thank you very much for your laughing and also for your intense and inspired work. Especially in the last few years it was you that kept me holding on. And i've got the feeling , that i'm not the only one. I worked for over 40 years as a professional musician and was doing quite well with it. But this Corona stuff threw me off the rails and i'm trying very hard to get back where i belong. But as many other artists too, i first had to sell all of my eqipement, before getting help. And in 2 months i ll get kicked out of my appartement and will be homeless.
But that's not what i wanted to write in first place - on the other hand, sometimes wired random stuff happens...but only if you let other peiple know about.
Okay, concerning your cool idea: to me there is one problem left . The limiting factor is now the strength of your fingers. Because they are the connection now. Yes, you can stretch now 4 mercyless rubberbands much wider due to the support of the add on. But then xou still have to hold ( or rather fix) the puchet ( sorry, i can t remember all these terms), .but i hope u see what i mean. I'm doing freeclimbing and hard bouldering for about 30 years now and have built up some helpfull power in my handmuscles ( yes i know, the fingers are only the servants... the muscles for them are placed mainly at the underarms...) and solid bones, tendons, joint capsulas. So probably my fingers are as strong as yours, concerning gripping power - but in all other aspects i am lightyears away from your power. I guess i couldn't even use a slingshot with only 2 yellow bands. It could end like " Bizarre: Ex musician found dead with a slingshot stuck in his head. Was it suicide ? Our expert from our sports ressorts told us, that usually the slingshot itself isn't shot - therefore steelballs are used. The slingshot itself usually isn't shot anywhere.....stay tuned..."
Have i missed something ? If not, then we need a tool, that allows to connect the slingshot pouch with the end of the helping rubber line - and THAT IS THE CRUX - which can be "released" = disconnected, right at the moment of shooting. It must be save and relieable and work in milliseconds, so it doesn't hinder the 4 yellow wild horses on their WARP2 race forward. I guess, this tool already exists. As so often. But is serving for some complete different task. Until now. And my thoughts wander to the old trigger mechanisms for crossbows...and...hum... then we could end up with a. ... crossbow 😂 Some sort of Schrödingers thing. It oszillates between a slingshot and a crossbow. Strange....
And of course it may not collide with any weapon laws. If this might be the case or could destroy some slingshot powerjunkies' life, physicly or in terms of justic, please delete this comment. Those are only some thoughts of mine. In case they are helpful or interesting i'm glad. But if they can do bad things , please kick them.
All best wishes, that also goes to this huge community
Wolfgang
Instead of that fiddly pin+loop catch that you show at 2:59 to 3:22, I would just have affixed the hand loop to the grip end of the beam with a meter or so of normal rope.
(When you pull the hand loop forwards, the rope just goes slack. When you want to take your hand out of the loop, the rope holds it from going back too far automatically. And when you release the pouch with a lot of force in your arm, it would also keep your hand from snapping back violently; which could and give the long rubber band the 5mm or so of slack that it needs to jump off the roller, or even just smack your hand into the roller.)
Clever!
Thanks Joerg! Pulleys are awesome
Awesome technology showcase. The real world examples are always so interesting. This is how much of the legolarific bow tech came to be.
We've even seen this "reflex" type in a wooden bow? I believe so. With bands... interesting.
If the roller were on a ball bearing it would have far less friction.
great idea!
Dang that's so clever, no wasted energy
I had to watch the first few seconds like five times.
Sehr clever, gute idee beim Vorwärtsbewegen der Hand schon Zugkraft quasi zu investieren. Anstatt einer Schraube wo das eingehakt ist könntest du eine Klinke dort installieren, die nach hinten sperrt und nach vorne, wenn man "nach vorne" dran zieht, das Band einfach freigibt.
Nice idea to use the pulley. I wasn't expecting that.
Joerg the secondary band being less useful the more you draw back your main bands actually gives me and idea, where the main body of the sling shot could be made from a pipe with a piston inside, which would allow for the body to become a linear force spring using atmospheric pressure, you could very easily have a 20kg/45lbs spring that is just as effective, at the start of the draw as it is at the end of the draw, and all without increasing the size of this setup in anyway.
Perhaps put an Exo Skeleton on your hands as well.
Very crazy is a polite way of saying insane. LOL.... U ROCK Doc. 👍👀🖖👻🤘😎🎸🎶🎵
The mechanism is essentially allowing you to draw twice and store the energy of both draws into the system; or divide the energy required to draw the main rubber viewed another way.
In theory you could use multiple parallel counter bands and pulleys with a locking clip to store even more draws of energy and get ridiculous velocities, but then the whole thing gets heavier, the length constraint could maybe be eased using a clever compound pulley arrangement. Maybe a mounted turret lol?
A crankable mini block and tackle sling shot!
"A wrist brace which is illegal in Germany" Germany is such a silly place.
Joerg; would the wheels on the limbs of compound bows give you a strong early pull and a slight reduction at the grab point? Would using two wheels create too much friction? That would let you reduce the over all length. Awesome use of easily available energy! As to viability; I'll wait to see Sprave v. 3.0- it'll be great by then!
A elektric telescopic pipe could also a solution, when you have pull the string max, the tube can move out maybe 50cm for more tention... ;)
Depends on your finger force to hold the steelball you can move more than 50cm.
If I remember correctly, there is a release assist tool in the market for slingshot similar to bow arrow release assist, the slingshot ones would clamp down on the steelball prior to release
Hey Jorge!!!
I have some questions for you. First off a little bit about the questions and myself. I'm not a knife guy at all. I know little to nothing about them but there was one knife that once I saw it I absolutely fell in love and NEED TO HAVE IT. the knife I'm talking about is the Acta Non-Verba Anthropoid. My only problem is it is very expensive. I learned that it is a fairbairn sykes design which actually goes perfect because my weapon loadout is actually modern interpretations of World War II weapons like my Springfield Garrison 1911 and my soon to have M1A that I'm going to configure into a paratrooper M1A1 with the paratrooper folding stock and pistol grip. Now all I need is a knife and I can't think of a better one than a fairbairn sykes knife. So my questions are...
What is the best fairbairn sykes on the market?
Is there a fairbairn sykes that is high quality but cheaper than the Acta Non-Verba Anthropoid?
Should I go without a knife until I can afford the Acta Non-Verba Anthropoid?
Like I said once I saw that knife I absolutely fell in love. I've tried looking at other fairbairn sykes models but none have shown to have the same high quality of the Acta Non-Verba Anthropoid.
I would be so incredibly appreciative if you even read this let alone give me any advice.
Thank You So So Much For Your Time! And All The Years Of Fantastic Entertainment! I have been a fan of the slingshot channel for goodness..... Probably over 10 years now? Anyway I won't take up any more of your time. I would really really appreciate it if you could help me out!!!
Thanks Jorge!!!!!
Sincerely, A Long Time Fan
A.P. aka The Catman.
you know it's good when it looks like half a bicicle
Alright ! finally the slingshot channel again!
That is the kind of content i subscribed for!
On the subject of RUclipsrs collaborating, is there any chance of seeing the slingshot I sent you for testing Joerg?
How about a multi-stage load? Manually pull the payload back halfway to a latch attached to a mechanical advantage slider. The handle portion could run the entire length and the latch portion only the back half. The final draw could 2:1 of (nearly) your entire wingspan to pull the carriage back an extra couple feet. Bonus of being incredibly accurate.
Quick release mechanism is needed. First you cock white band to its maximum and lock it in this mechanism, which is located where you can pull yellow bands to. Then you pull yellow bands as much as you can to this point, hook your hand OR puch to that mechanism, which also releases in process, letting you pull another +100% of power.
Good thinking as always ! I'm sure the execution will get a lot better.
A thought: Couldn't you create more tension by putting the front handle a bit backwards on the rail? Like that you would also have less rail sticking out behind you while keeping the same total amount of distance.
Update: Just saw you already did that. Why not here ?
Seriously though, it feels like this kind of application of physics should have more of an affect on us. Or that it would have if we hadn't basically surrendered effort to machines, not that that's a bad thing. Getting my head around this is making me look at everything different. I feel like I'm in a 70s Sci-Fi movie dream sequence.
Aww heck yeah! A new video dropped! Definitely liking. 😎
So nice to see you return to your roots - ZDP189
Is that you? How are you? I miss the old slingshot forum days.
This video reminds me of the good old times of this channel. The times before he was a warlord 🤣