Wooden machine gun

[ezdays]

I think I'm finished with the build, but not finished working on it. I did fire one rubber band and then it jammed. All 272 pieces fit tight enough that most require a tap with a mallet to get them to fit, all but one and it fit loose. It happened that it was the part that fell out and caused the jam. Fortunately, it was easy to get to and now I have to figure out how to keep it secure without getting glue all over other parts. There were also 27 parts left over, they all look like they are duplicates but I'm going to check to be sure. I question why they chose those parts to duplicate, there's a possibility that they were needed on a different model gun. One proof of that is that the gun did work like it should... once.

All-in-all, there were 94 separate steps to finishing this, (the steam engine had 96), the 272 parts (270 wood, 2 plastic), does not include the steel rods, springs or screws.