Weekend Project: Spider Rifle

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By kipkayvideos
Posted 2009/03/05 @ 10:44 am
Category General

Make a humane, compressed-air-powered bug trapper that removes unwanted, tiny pests from your world .Thanks go to Matt Lind for the original article in MAKE, Volume 06.
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Check out the complete Spider Rifle article in MAKE, Volume 06 “Spider Rifle”
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8 Responses to Weekend Project: Spider Rifle

Timmy McGritty on March 13th, 2009 at 8:12 am said:

That is all.

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Collin Cunningham on March 13th, 2009 at 8:51 am said:

Brooklyn roaches are as big as mice! — methinks I’ll need a higher guage.

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Fritz on March 13th, 2009 at 10:47 am said:

I made one of these a couple of months ago. Works great, especially for the little sow bugs / roly-polys that somehow get in the basement. I even snagged some flies and a house centipede.

I built mine with a few modified improvements. For the chamber I used a PVC coupling covered on one end with some sheer fabric instead of the drilled out end cap. To block off one side of the “T” I filled it in with JB weld while molding it around a rounded off dowel. This gives a much smoother change in direction for the airflow and less resistance out the exhaust.

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elindemann on March 13th, 2009 at 1:32 pm said:

Kipkay, spiders are arachnids.

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Nick H on March 13th, 2009 at 2:17 pm said:

We have a funny way of using the word “air” for many things in the English language instead of “gas.” Take “airbags” for example… The mixture of gasses from the canned duster isn’t air as we know it, and is probably flammable. It might affect spiders and insects in non-ideal ways. (At the very least, oxygen content will be low.)

A big deal? Probably not, unless you’re trying to rescue a prized pet spider from the top of an oil lamp.

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chris on March 15th, 2009 at 12:09 pm said:

spider’s are not insects.
cough * Scientific Illiteracy in America *

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bugassassin on April 21st, 2009 at 5:46 pm said:

“spider’s”?
*cough*…*sigh*… grammarical illiteracy in America…
lol , no offense meant!

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Your fan on July 19th, 2009 at 10:26 am said:

Kipkay

That is a cool gun that you showed us and i really like i am going to make one to
but fuck all the people saying spider’s aren’t insects
i know they aren’t but it just one thing ok so fu guys.

Your Fan,

Robert

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