How to make small scale BUNGY CORDS

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Ok guys, here's a tutorial on making BUNGY CORDS for your small scale projects - it should go along great for any 1/28, 1/24, 1/25 or even 1/18 scale r/c's. It's more suitable for trucks but it can be used for whatever you need to fasten down on you r/c.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

PIC1: A pack or a few hair bands, the ones with covered elastic bands or like the ones in the picture above, A scissor, crazy glue, a needle nose pliers, a snipper/ wire cutter, a paper clip or few of them, and those garbage bag tie strings.

PIC2: You will cut the band at the desired length or in the middle like the pic above.

PIC3: You will then make the hooks from the paper clips - be sure to make them small and also use the needle nose pliers to bend it into the ook shape. If it's too long you can cut it as desired.

PIC4: Next, you'll string the elastic band into the hooks at both end, then use a drop of crazy glue to close the loop (look at pic to see how loop looks after it is glued)

PIC5: Now you will strip the paper off the garbage tie strings so that the wire is completely exposed. You can use the needle nose pliers also to assist you in doing this - you will need 2 wires for one bungy cord.

PIC6: Now you will wrap the wires around the end of the loops - just enough so that the tip of the band is not covered by the wire ( look at the pic also) Be sure you wrap it tightly and use th pliers to press the end of the wires down into the band ( wire tips are pointed and can also cut or prick your fingers if left out).

PIC7: In the end this is what it should look like - if it doesn't, then you should start over - lol.

I hope these steps are clear and simple enough for you guys to understand, it's fairly simple and cheap to make plus the Bungy cords should look great on your scale projects too. Here's an egample of the ones I made:

texan_idiot25
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Re: How to make small scale BUNGY CORDS

Christ, your nuts, haha. I was wondering where you got them, forgot to ask all the time.

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corvettesupra
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Re: How to make small scale BUNGY CORDS

lol wouldnt it be kinda wierd if a guy bought those hair things lol. I'd be afraid to buy them cuz people would think i'm a cross dresser. BTW nice tutorial the after produc tlooks good!

xmodkidd33
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Re: How to make small scale BUNGY CORDS

Yeah. My mom is at Wal*Mart buying stuff, so she's going to buy me some black pony tail holders. I'm using this for my Hummer since I didn't care that you used the mud look for your GMC, lol.

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Re: How to make small scale BUNGY CORDS

xmodkidd33 wrote:
Definitely sweet. How do you think you could make the multi-colored bungee cords? (green, blue, red, etc, all together.) Maybe instead of the tie things, you could use some craft wire if you don't have any.

Yeah, those mutli-color ones will work also - I know they have bungies that are like that too. The craft wire will work fine too - I just used what I had availale instead of running around buying stuff at my LHS -lol :wink:

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Re: How to make small scale BUNGY CORDS

Definitely sweet. How do you think you could make the multi-colored bungee cords? (green, blue, red, etc, all together.) Maybe instead of the tie things, you could use some craft wire if you don't have any.

Teppudama
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Re: How to make small scale BUNGY CORDS

Smart, and it looks so right on the Blazer too, I like it!

snowboi1289
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Re: How to make small scale BUNGY CORDS

now that is creative thinking....

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Donziikid wrote:
Haha. That's great man, I was wondering how you made those! :lol:
--You have quite the imagination, and creativity needed for this Hobby. You use such off-the-wall objects sometimes. Good work.

Thanks Donzi! 2 members from another forum gave me the idea and I just went and did it with these regular household stuff. It's cheap and fun to do.

Thanks guys! I kinda figured that it would cool to share this little project with ya'll - i'm sure it will come in handy!

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Re: How to make small scale BUNGY CORDS

Now this is the type of originality I like to see. :D

fer_rayado124
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Re: How to make small scale BUNGY CORDS

Wow, I had thinked of something like that but with small fishing hooks.

Donziikid
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Re: How to make small scale BUNGY CORDS

Haha. That's great man, I was wondering how you made those! :lol:
--You have quite the imagination, and creativity needed for this Hobby. You use such off-the-wall objects sometimes. Good work.