okay, bit of a challenge with this one Assassins Creed syndicate. the game makers have given the
character a new gadget on his gauntlet in the form of a rope launcher. now this is basically
a device that will fire a rope up, hook onto something and pull him up to another level. now
that is quite tricky. I've had a bit of research on YouTube I can't find anyone that's managed to
do this all in the one device. I've seen people fire hooks up, attached things to them and then
pull themselves up separately, but not in the one device. and let alone small enough to fit
on your arm. this one's gonna be tricky, but we do not shy away from challenges do
we, No! Bring it on!
All right then Colin, anyway we're gonna need a bass something to start from, so I've got this,
this is one of the things I used to mount the Wolverine claws on. I've made another one and
we're gonna put on here something which fires the grapple hook off, that is where I'm gonna
start. how're we gonna do that? remember these the oozes from the Far Cry tuktuk?
Excellent now why I actually want to do is use the co2 cartridges which by the
bb's to fire our grapple hook that is more gonna make first.
there we go that's made a little house for our cylinders. now we're gonna kind of divert it
off make a little valve so we can utilize the pressure to fire our grapple hook. very neat
there we are, thats set up. now the valve I've made here is basically like a little
shaft with series of seals on it, and when it's in its stationary safety position,
the pressures in between these first two, and then when you push it forward, the kind it moves over
and then allows access to these little holes which go through to the end which fire the grapple hook
out. that slides in the end there like that. tighten that on there, lovely jubbly. so once
that's mounted on my are. I'll be able to go "oh I'd like to get up there" off the
grapple hook fires, boom! so that leads me to the next job the grapple hook.
got me grapple hook. looks a little bit odd but there is a reason for that the original thin line
which I wanted to use I was gonna put in a little groove down here, tie on the end there and sneak
the knot in that was no good. (A) it wouldn't hold my weight and (B) it used to snap off cuz
it would scrape these sharp edges and they'd cut into it. that was no good. now got some thin wire,
that would hold my weight but it's too stiff and it won't coil up properly. so every time you tried
to fire it it just used to get in a knot and a mess and then it didn't work. so the solution,
was this nylon rope. now this is quite good, holds my weight ,quite loose,
doesn't tangle up or coil up or anything like that. now it has to go on the other end of
the grapple hook so kind of the wrong end of what you want to put it on. which means the the barbed
hooks have to face the other way so when it fires it kind of flicks round. but make this wonderful
little eyelet look, which I'll smooth all the edges off. for the rope thing around there. my
whole body weight can hang off it, and it doesn't cut into it, everything's good now. so we'll slot
it here like so. very nice and then we've got the coiling problem, of how to get this rope off the
device without it becoming a tangled mess. for that we've got this little creation. now this is
basically three stainless steel rods which I've welded together at the end and then the bashed
another one down the middle and then kind of parted them in like a triangle effect like that,
and then we fix that on here. right so that's on there like that so you can wrap rope around it ,
the grapple hook can fire off it spools up really nicely,
it doesn't hold any resistors or anything like that, works a treat. like I shall demonstrate.
just run the rope round
let's pressurize it up
three two one.
there we are hook fired, rope fired off beautifully.
no knots and tangles, now the tricky bit winching it all back in
can I lift myself off the ground can this become a completely functional
rope launcher? That's the next video!