a homemade pickgun?possible?

[S3rratedSp00L]

The motion required seems to be siilar to the snap gun but more of a vibration than a snapping motion. Straight up and down seems to be the way to go! I dunno how much strength it needs, but I intend to find out eventually.

If you made an electric gun with a circular motion you wou8ld probably be re-inventing the rotary pick.

It might be possible to use a cordless dremel. You would have to convert the rotational movement to an up and down movement. That can be done, but is not as easy as just finding a shaver or something similar that already has the right movement, of course. I wouldn't waste the dremel, personally! Dremels are for making manual picks! and lots of them! You can find shavers cheaper anyway. Electrics picks are just toys if you're a hobbyist like me.. I am going to try my hand at making one because I think they are way overpriced for what they do, and I wanna play around with one. I don't really need an electric gun, I say proudly!

[shat myself]

if to make a mechanical pick you just need the pick to shake a bunch if so wouldnt those motors in video game controlers work?theyre easy to run juice to and easily atached on anything.

[silent]

They dont shake a bunch, they have more of a flicking action. You might be able to use the motor out of the game controller. Check out the southern ord electric pick taken apart, to get a better idea.

[ne0nerdz]

After reading all the posts about making a decent electric pick gun, i was pondering the possibilities while trimming my beard, when the answer became very obvious. An electric hair/beard trimmer/clipper has the perfect strength and motion for this purpose (single plane vibration). Although the model i used was AC, it did have adjustable vibration screws on the side and it can be used with a DC to AC car inverter with no problems. After unscrewing the blades, a small length of wiper blade insert ~<3" was attached to the arm that moves the blade back and forth with a pinch of epoxy putty (JB weld type stuff commonly sold at auto supply stores). This thing worked unbelievably well on 2 weiser deadbolts and a master pro padlock, until the putty let go due to the residual oil on the vibration arm (before i could take usable pictures).

I would imagine that a cordless version would work just as well, just a little more $. i think i paid $20 for my plug in version. Since i use my trimmer quite often, i will not do further permanent modifications until i do a little shopping first. since the only work that needs to be done is attaching a pin to the vibration arm, it makes a cheap and effective alternative to an expensive electronic pick gun. This seems a lot more effective than an electric toothbrush or the like.

Just thought i would throw the idea out there in case anyone else wants to try/improve on the idea.

Cheers

yeah thats a pretty good idea, a 150 volt DC has a nice smooth action, try it out might not be very powerful but its got a nice delicate action which should work