[quote=Voltaire]
So I'm sitting here at work thinking of something clever to say to Nosoul, and a friend/coworker of mine walks in with a strange collection of connected pipe in his hands about 3 feet long. He pulls one section of pipe out of the brass sleeve portion and I immediately know what it is. He made a 12 gauge zip gun in our employers workshop.The magic of New Mexico.
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My uncle worked in a workplace that dealt heavily with plastics and composites. He once made a fully-functional crossbow. He's a pretty radical uncle.