3D Printing Vs. Tic-Tac Velocity?? #3dprinting

I 3d printed a Tic-Tac Blaster that uses pen springs to launch Tic-Tacs. How far can it shoot?

[Kartikgrover]

Bro it's not because of springs, it's because of law of common sense, if you use same colour tictac as the gun, then it will go further. Use red tictac with red gun and it will go same distance as the orange one.

[leeboss]

Me giving the police officer a tictac to thank him for not writing me a ticket:

[Rena]

Using a rubber band would definitely make it go way farther

[DanielReyes-trzb]

Try springs with higher tension. The small compression springs from a pen are ok. Your distance to the volume of springs wasn’t what you expecting.

[dustynbeasley]

You can tell the gun itsself is absorbing a lot of the force from the springs instead of transfering it to the one tic tac. You can see that because the resevoir of tic tacs above the one, move whenever the trigger is pulled. Like substantially move. Thats because those tic tacs above the one are aborbing some momentum from the springs. It actually looks like ita absorbing a lot of the momentum.

[redplays]

Instead of compression use tension instead. Hook the spring near the mouth of the gun that way when you pull, the spring is in tension and it will probably be alot stronger

[fredo]

The same thing but with stiffer springs. I want to see those tick tacks flying out like rockets bro

[tylerallen]

Heres a trick, take two of those springs, hold them end to end, ans twist, if you do it right you can make the second spring twist down into the other, making a double spring, I used to make little paper bb guns in school with that, a pen tube, and plastic bbs or little wads of paper, if you do that, you could get 16 in that design and get some power, also, mix that with higher tension springs for better results.

[JohnDough-xu]

Can tell you just enjoy messing about and having fun and I love it

[yeetuslord]

... 8 springs... 20 ft... *Shoves 8 springs in my arms, spine and legs*

[properorientation]

I love this for many reasons. Good work.

[Zhinoi]

His breath was kicking so I got to clickin 😈

[thelatenightguard]

You really can make money doing ANYTHING! Even analyzing the TicTac Blaster groupings and uploading it to YouTube.
I'm encouraged

[scottpeltier]

The enthusiasm on his face as he shoots the first ever tic tac gun is palpable

[Flooph_YT]

You should use 8 super powerful springs

[CrovelAnimation]

Find a tic tacs terminal velocity. Then, see what type of propulsion will get it to match the tic tacs terminao velocity. That's how you can get it to go as far as possible. I believe you can make a tic tac go as far as possible, mate!

[nunyabidness]

think I would try one with a hammer instead of a plunger. Use a pull type spring, have the trigger pivot into the bottom of the hammer, have the spring be pulled by the hammer, have the hammer pivot into the tic-tac. You could also add a rubber nipple to the strike face of the hammer allowing a MUCH heavier spring. Somewhere in the 3 pound range as opposed to your 1/16th ounce pushers

[josephdavis]

That 8-spring tac fling thing sings! Ding, ding, ding! Winning!

[americanpatriot]

You just wasted perfectly good tic tacs.

[CodyWinston]

This is the coolest way to use wrapping paper