Make a Steampunk “Atomic Disruptor” Raygun from Old Parts
The Atomic Disruptor Raygun is straight out of steampunk fiction. The cool DIY raygun has been put together by Cohophoto entirely from old radio and camera parts. If you are looking for a slice of futuristic fantasy, Cocophoto has illustrated the project on his Flickr photoset. Though short on words, the pictures show the construction details of the gun.
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For the handle of the gun, the creator used an old super-8 movie camera into the handle for the raygun. The flash mount is an 8mm projector lens which forms the barrel. Vacuum tubes from a vintage radio go into the other parts of the gun. Does it work? Nah, but that’s not the point. Steampunk is all about obtaining that perfect vintage look to show off and this gun does provide one heck of a visual blast.
If you’re really ambitious, you could try building an entire steampunk rifle. For more guns and projectiles, browse through some of our airsoft & gun hacks.
June 6th, 2009
interesting
June 22nd, 2009
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This post really helped me out. Thanks.
July 10th, 2009
I think the vacuum tubes and radioactivity warning would make this more dieselpunk or atompunk than steampunk.
Still cool though
December 10th, 2009
A cautionary note about using old radio tubes. some tubes of the metal can variety may actually be somewhat radioactive. This is not typical for the glass type tubes (as far as I recall). The tubes in question came from power systems found in some consumer grade electronics of the 50’s and 60’s. A former boss advised me to watch out for these.
December 10th, 2009
Okay I tweaked my own curiosity and had to look. check out this guys collection of vacuum tubes, and yes many are glass! his site is: http://carlwillis.wordpress.com/category/radioactive-collectibles/ the problem is old equipment may contain tubes like these, do NOT open the tubes. We came across some triode tubes years ago but this stuff still lurks in grandma’s attic…