Awesome Homemade Grappling Hook Gun 

In an apocalypse this dude would make a tank out of rubble, amazing grappling hook btw.

Was Supposed to be Spiderman. somehow. somewhere. turned into BATMAN Series.

I genuinely like this guy. His smile really shows how happy he is.

He is literally Cisco from The Flash

Try casting the grapnel hook in aluminum.I like the straw design maybe add flight stabilizing fins , like a dart or rocket would have.

this guy reminds me of cisco from the flash

i dont understand, you are so smart, its just amazing. Build a real iron man suit in the future or something. haha keep it up bto

*when u got strength, durability, and shooting situated* Oh yeah, it's all coming together

The wrapper is quite efficient actually. It's what a lot of real pneumatic launchers usually use since it can make very good use of the compressed air escaping the barrel. It just has the side effect that the air has to travel down the length of the barrel first before it can act on the outer projectile. You want to make it as long and low friction as possible to get the best acceleration from your air pressure. I'd use a sealed PVC pipe design that can fall away once the hook has been accelerated sufficiently. But realistically they should both give similar results at low pressures. Once you go into the really high pressures an inner 'gun' type design is much better.

Finally a cool thingy builder on youtube who like me, does crappy welds. Grind on bro, you make me feel better about myself

Brilliant dude! Looking forward to seeing how this progresses, been paying attention from the start. Been super interesting.

You never fail to make me happy

similar as a tool 3D maneuver gear in attack on the Titan / Shigeki no kyojin

This is awesome!

Loving the portal music at the end.

i love your creations you have a bright future dude

AMAZING WORK! The only thing i'd recommend is some sort of "reeler" like the button you press on a measuring tape but ya know.. A LOT STRONGER!

I think the straw wrapper is more reliable to get it to stick to wherever you want it to... the other one has to rotate first to be aligned properly, and we could see in the footage that it doesn't just rotate 180° and stops there but keeps rotating, so it's gonna be a 50/50 chance of it actually being correctly aligned when it's time to get a grip at something

You deserve hella more subscribers honestly , you're great mate

I like the light furze one (btw I have been watching your channel since the very beginning and I have to say, your work is amazing. You inspire me to create things and keep up the good work!👍)

BTW your pursuits are amazing Alan, keep it up! And also bring more of this type of inventing back to TV!

Very impressive. But can you make a working 3 Dimensional Maneuver Gear?

I grew up in Westchester so watching you film in culver city not far from my childhood house was trippy

youre brilliant! keep the awesome content rolling bro i love it!

Test it out at an Airport next. That'll be fun.

Don't let you memes be dreams

This channel is gold

I like the straw one, like you said more elegant and just going straight for the target instead of having to flip around and all.

Humans are getting places in life

could you try and make it fire with a electromagnet railgun inspired mechanism

Man your sick! your going places!

his whole channel jesus amazing

So clever and i aspire to be like you

Can we have a collab between you and Colin Furze ? It would be incredible.

This was an amazing video!

I love your videos and particularly in this one I liked how you explained a lot of stuff in this video.

don't know whybut I couyuld have sworn I saw you on Americas got talent in the backstage area

Watch the slingshot channels airgun videos ... that'll be helpfull

dang I wish I could buy this. this is incredible

I've been watching this "series" if u can call it that but I can't wait until it works and looks amazing great job

"Part Number" wait wat

You got the Hookshot!

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR SO LONG

Jeez man, you're a genius.

Is that giant piece of wood supposed to be plank from Ed Edd N Eddy?

Is it unfeasible to use lightweight alloys? Like magnesium or aluminium alloys? Guess you would have to make a larger hook if you used those :/

Dein Kanal ist erstaunlich! Jedes einzelne Video, das ich von den Sachen weggeblasen werde, die du tust!

The main benefit of the over the barrel version is that it will fly a lot more true and if you make it a tighter fit it will use the pressure a lot more efficiently

WEB FLUID SERUM (I DID NOT MAKE IT IN ANY WAY) spirit gum with sylica hydrolized polyvinyl alcohol water-purified magnesium oxide graphene^ xantham gum, or guar whatever heating coils combined then like agitated by getting shot through bristles and shot through a sort of flat thimble spinneret with the holes all pointing in a inward direction so it makes a binded thread. literally 60$ for the chemicals on amazon (in total btw)

Well both of the collin furzz designs spin and lose energy in flight so the straw rapper should be the best

Love the Portal music!

I like the straw wrapper. It just seems so much simpler.

Looks like it's just too heavy to get any significant distance. In the long rung you gotta ask yourself, why make a grappling gun if you could throw the hook way further than the gun can shoot?

1:45 just like society 😃

I love when he makes new things

this looks straight outta bioshock, nice job.

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Notification squad what up

I love your videos, keep it up

this is so dope!

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epic gun dude

You deserve to be a mythbuster

Again a great Video

i like the third (straw wrapper) design since it has the factor of an additional boost when the preasure captured inside the tube of the hook releases and acts like a little booster. and dont take me by word since it is only fast thinking

I like the straw wrapper. While it is pretty heavy I think by increasing the PSI you could get some pretty good results!

I subbed to you a while ago, but I never realized that I've also been watching you on mythbusters! XD

I like the straw design because it looks more like a traditional grappling hook make it all out of acrylic and put for tips and not to

i wanna make a batman grappling hook gun irl and i needed to find a video to understand the basics and this helped a lot and i think if i go along with this idea i will use the straw hook

best person I ever watched on youtube

You are amazing, keep it up

I love the portal 2 music in the background at about 5 minutes

I'm in a good mood so I'm liking this video

The dauphin noise music was unique and interesting

I LOVE YOUR VIDS I SUBBED AND TURNED ON THE BELL!!! BEST RU-vidR EVER!!!!

ASCO valves are also great for water. We use them all the time for that at work.

That laugh is amazing

Depending on how tight of a fit the straw wrapper style is you could probably reduce a lot of weight off of it as well. you only need a minor amount of material to hold your weight and the rest could be shaved a way you might be able to cut a pattern into it that still in part strength but lightens it up or leave two or three strong struts that run the full length with a ring at the bottom and then fill in the rest with something it still captures the air....

You mentioned that you used that specific solenoid because it has that specific size of fittings. You could try possibly using one with larger fittings, then mounting them to your back and using heavy duty tubing to carry the air to your arms. that way you can lessen the load on your hands, reduce bulk, and possibly have more space for a larger grappling hook.

I just watched the entire season of myth busters the search. I was voting for u. :(

he finally did it

Dang mythbusters missed out on you, this is a freaking awesome device

Wrapping teflon tape around the straw wrapper gun barrel or the Furze rod, you could make a tighter seal around the chamber barrel.

I've been loving where your current project has been going so far! Though I'm only 14 with very little knowledge in mechanics and PSI and stuff like that, I do know how to make PREDICTIONS AND HYPOTHESIS! (Thank you Mrs.Harsh, My 8th grade Physical science teacher) So, seeing the Colin Furze hook, it performed at much the same rate as the Colin Furze Lite, with the Colin Furze Lite giving that nice flip around that the normal Colin Furze hook might struggle with at times. So I'll mark out the Colin Furze hook. Now, when comparing the Colin Furze Lite to the Straw-wrapper hook, I noted that the Straw-wrapper hook did weigh more, and it would DEFINITELY hurt to have that come flying at your face! But nonetheless, the weight will cause it to arc much more strongly than the Colin Furze Lite. So I can mark out the Straw-wrapper hook. That leaves the Colin Furze Lite! I apologize if I took up so much time trying to tell you what my opinion is!

u need one that is like a spike in the barrel then when it leaves it has 3 or 4 hook like parts that when it goes through something it expands to look its self like a one way valve. kind of like grappling gun from cars 2 in the opening scene (i am not a fan of the Disney cars movies I'm just using it as a reference) this plus the extra pressure and you have built the ultimate grappling gun

I saw u on Americas got talent I was like omg is that him.

I like the acrylics light

Jorge Sprave of the slingshot channel did some work with solenoids and was able to pump the psi to like 900 or something. He was using his for a crazy arrow launcher but I think his methods and materials could be useful.

I like the straw wrapper design but you might try using some rubber sealing rings to maximize pressure on the rod. I prefer this design since it allows for more power behind the shot. We cant have spidy falling short because he missed by 1-2 feet.

I like the straw wrapper design. It looks cooler, and when you fired it, it looked the most like Spidey's web. Ultimately, I'd choose whatever design is easiest to change cartridges mid web sling. If you run out of web fluid, you're gonna have a bad time.

I like the acrylic grappling hook better, it seems very practical

Use titanium for the hook. It's strong as steel about half of the weight. A few small pieces won't cost much and you can get a shop to weld it for you since it's a bit tricky to work with if you're not an experienced welder. Increasing air pressure will work too, but I'd also work on the aerodynamics of the hook itself since that can also help with distance. If you really wanted to go crazy, you could make a much smaller hook mechanism that expands the hooks out of a cylindrical container when it leaves the barrel using springs on the inside of the container to push the hooks out when it ejects. It would be a bit more compact and aerodynamic. Plus, it would look really cool if it was executed correctly.

I love how he uses the portal soundtrack

You got this

You have a huge mind of creativity :|

I like the straw wrapper and you could make it out of aluminum or titanium to save on weight.

The one that you like or started talking about right the simplest one you could make the hook parts kind of like wings where they got a little lift too then

The main limiting factor probably isn't the weight of the grappling hook, but the weight and drag created by the rope. So actually making the grappling hook weight more compared to the rope may result in longer flight. But ideally make the rope thinner. To check if this is true - try the hook with and without rope. Also another way to make it better without changing the power is to make the acceleration last longer - for example by lengthening the barrel.

I love this guy's videos! I have an idea or two for the straw wrapper hook. I was thinking maybe half steel and half pvc pipe (or something light like such.) Like a weighted arrowhead concept. Move the rope's loophole at the bottom of the steel half to still make use of the strength of the steel. And still using the arrow concept, run feathers down the pvc half. They're weak enough to keep from obstructing the hooks latching on. Also maybe have a spring mechanism wired to go off at the pull of the trigger to assist against the rope's resistance. It would increase the rope's chamber size, so maybe run it along the side instead of the under barrel and at an upwards angle. Idk. You're the walk and I'm just talk lol. I really love your work, though.