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How to make a tazer out of a 1 time use camera!

I will now tell you how to make a tazer out of those items and how to use the thing when you are done! Here are the following steps to remember…

1) Disassemble camera
2) Remove battery & film canister
3) Disable the electric charge
4) Remove circuit board
5) Add paper clips & duct tape
6) Reassemble & use
7) Repeat as needed for more tazers

Items needed: Duct tape, 2 paper clips, metal object, used up one time use camera, sharp edge.

See the tape in the picture above? Do not use that tape, use duct tape. I am stupid so I am going ahead to use this flammable tape.

*Disassemble camera

See this camera? It is a Kodak Max Flash Camera. To make a tazer, you can use any sort of camera that is one time use and has a flash installed in it. Personally I prefer the Walmart Fujifilm cameras because I can easily install it in here and it has a switch interface for the flash. I had trouble installing the equipment inside this camera. Note: Be sure the film is used up so you don’t ruin the film canister itself.

You need to remove a section of the camera. Take some sharp edged object and shift it around on the camera edges where it looks like it can break apart to remove a piece of the camera covering.

*Remove battery & film canister

See the battery and film canister inside the camera? You will need to remove those to get to the circuit board. It’s best that you remove the battery first to stop yourself from shocking your body. Next remove the film canister. You can still redeem the canister for photos at your local photo shop. If there is a little bit of film still sticking out, turn the knob on the top of the film canister so film won’t stick out anymore.

*Disable electric charge

This one is really dangerous so make sure you don’t have any flammable items near the circuit board or camera. Grab some long metal object and hold it in your hand tightly. Flip over the camera so that the lens is facing you like in the above picture.

See the green circle in the above picture? That is where you are going to place the metal object. Slowly slide the metal object on the spikes near that flash battery. After a few seconds you will see a large spark come out with a loud sound accompanying it. Make sure not to burn yourself!

Look on the area where you touched the metal and on the metal itself. You will see that it will be burnt crisp. This is natural, don’t worry about it.

*Remove circuit board
Now we are onto easier things. To remove the circuit board, all you have to do is just pull it out. Make sure you don’t break anything though or expect to use up a new camera.

*Add paper clips & duct tape

Turn the circuit board over so that the brown side is showing.

Bend the paper clips so that it’s a fishing hook. Now attach the paper clips to the metal wires attached to the flash battery as seen in the green circle on the picture above the paper clip hook picture. Bend the hook so that it will touch itself and not fall off the wires. Do the same to the other wire attached to the flash battery. Now duct tape in-between the 2 wires because if those paperclips touch each other, the tazer will not operate. Once you have that done, reassemble the camera together.

*Reassemble & use

Put the case and battery back together then bend the straight ends of the paper clip so that they look properly installed. Tape it all back together, making sure not to tape the flash button or the flash indicator.
Now try it! Remember, the tazer will only work on electrocutable things, so don’t expect to see sparks on rubber products.

Oh yeah one more thing, don’t expect the tazer to shoot out an electric stream between the 2 paperclips, it doesn’t do it here.
I had 2 slashes on my thigh from tazer burns. They were from an earlier made tazer using a AAA battery. Those wounds took almost a month to heal. When I tested it on myself, I had 2 shocks on the thigh, 2 on a shoulder, 1 on my stomach (it turned my stomach from flab to a 6 pack for a second), 1 on my chest, 1 on my butt cheek, and 1 on my back. If you use it on someone or on yourself, expect to experience a large sharp pain for a second, then some burn wounds. If you use it on metal, expect a large flurry of sparks.

*Ideas not tested
An underwater tazer. Imagine using a used up underwater one-time use camera and installing a tazer in it. Good for fishing, but may only have a 1-inch diameter in water shock.

Tazer prod. Install the tazer onto a long stick and turn on the charge. That would be a nice prod.

Tazer knife. Take the circuit board of the tazer and install it on a knife. May have damaging results. Of course it could result in large sparks.

I hope you liked this guide and maybe it will be useful to you.

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Sunday, March 16th, 2008 Filed under tutorial |