Homemade toys (fart machine)!

[Don Rickles]

We were so poor we had to make our own toys…. This was an all time favorite, perfect for your grands! A simple hanger (cut and bent into a U shape) two rubber bands and a small metal washer. You wind it up, place under your legs while sitting, then gently lift your leg until it spins! 😂

[Don Rickles]

PSA, don’t try this wearing just your tightly whities!

[StudleyJames]

We made these when I was a kid too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv3nD3voEtM

[6spdC6]

Oh I well remember those things, you could even by them in some stores of the era!

We used them by winding them up tight and placing under a seat. They were quite during the set down bur the second the person got off the seat they took off with a rather loud noise!

Course in that era we also had the fake shit piles placed in strategic places!

[Rob]

Video of this working?

[Onebadcad]

I am thinking shrapnel to the nutzsack is NOT a good thing,,,

[Don Rickles]

Originally Posted by Rob

Video of this working?

Needs stronger rubber bands.....but here's the idea!

Youtube Shorts

[GTOguy]

Originally Posted by StudleyJames

We made these when I was a kid too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv3nD3voEtM

We made these with the super huge bobby pins that would draw blood. Also needle tipped blow gun darts made from paper cones and model airplane dope. And tiny bows and arrows that you could shoot in class. And the worst, hanger wire sling shots with about 10" of SIG model airplane rubber for power and U-nails as ammo. We could put holes in the screen at the movie theater from 60 feet away. It was nuts, but nobody ever lost an eye or went to jail.

[Don Rickles]

Originally Posted by GTOguy

We made these with the super huge bobby pins that would draw blood. Also needle tipped blow gun darts made from paper cones and model airplane dope. And tiny bows and arrows that you could shoot in class. And the worst, hanger wire sling shots with about 10" of SIG model airplane rubber for power and U-nails as ammo. We could put holes in the screen at the movie theater from 60 feet away. It was nuts, but nobody ever lost an eye or went to jail.

Wrist rockets and Chinese Stars

[GTOguy]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

Wrist rockets and Chinese Stars

Still have my 'pocket rocket' but it needs new rubber. That thing was deadly with buckshot. It's over 50 years old now! Also good at launching M-80's taped to marbles or ball bearings. We made the stars in metal shop. They stuck into the sides of the wooden Portable classrooms with ease. This was when Kung Fu was on the air, so it was a big deal. LOL...

[Don Rickles]

Originally Posted by GTOguy

Still have my 'pocket rocket' but it needs new rubber. That thing was deadly with buckshot. It's over 50 years old now! Also good at launching M-80's taped to marbles or ball bearings. We made the stars in metal shop. They stuck into the sides of the wooden Portable classrooms with ease. This was when Kung Fu was on the air, so it was a big deal. LOL...Attachment 98143

With a fat hand and arm like that you must be 63 @ 450 lbs +

[Louie Detroit]

These are a similar concept and provide some good laughs at work.

[Don Rickles]

Originally Posted by Louie Detroit

These are a similar concept and provide some good laughs at work.

I should sue them for copyright infringement! Hell we invented them! 😝

[GTOguy]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

With a fat hand and arm like that you must be 63 @ 450 lbs +

5-9 and 180 pounds. Fat hand and arm due to lifetime of heavy lifting and physical work. Makes it easy to crush 14" necks of mouthy egoists.

[Frankie the Fink]

We would bend Mom's bobby pins to make them into a spring-loaded thwacker when pressed against somebody's skin - hurts like hell; I can't find a video or even a picture of one.

[Black95]

Here is an old posting I made some time ago about an old toy my father taught me how to make from the 1930’s. https://www.thevettebarn.com/forums/...1&postcount=41

[Don Rickles]

Originally Posted by Black95

Here is an old posting I made some time ago about an old toy my father taught me how to make from the 1930’s. https://www.thevettebarn.com/forums/...1&postcount=41

Badass man!!!

[CurtP]

Originally Posted by Frankie the Fink

We would bend Mom's bobby pins to make them into a spring-loaded thwacker when pressed against somebody's skin - hurts like hell; I can't find a video or even a picture of one.

Isn't that what's in post 3?

https://www.thevettebarn.com/forums/...80&postcount=3

[slewfoot]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

We were so poor we had to make our own toys…. This was an all time favorite, perfect for your grands! A simple hanger (cut and bent into a U shape) two rubber bands and a small metal washer. You wind it up, place under your legs while sitting, then gently lift your leg until it spins! 😂

That's it? We make the same thing but thinner, wind it up , place it in a letter envelope, put someone's name on it and when they open it, scares the crap out of them

[Don Rickles]

Another favorite! Stilts I can still walk on them ( no video)....