Team Shaft ventured to Home Despot and quickly found the right parts. With one minor snag -- we needed 12 feet of chain-link fence, but the fence was only sold in 50 foot rolls for $80 each. So, off we went to another hardware store that sells chain-link fence by the foot. All in all it was quite easy to get all the parts for the shaft. A lot easier than a few years ago where we have to hunt through a blazing hot store for dozens of parts.

Team Sticks & Balls had a harder time finding the right sized balls. While bringing their stupidity to the dollar store, pet store, drug store and sports stores they found a number of balls and other random toys/junk with which to decorate the sticks. A while later they headed home to compare the catch with Team Shaft and to determine where to go from here.

It turns out that the small inflatable Wacky Balls were perfect -- they even had a small pouch of sand in them to make them fly wobbely -- just perfect for a stupid project like ours. So back to the dollar store they went to pick up 31 wacky balls. And once again the dumb-ass store clerk had to hit the $1 button 31 times to ring up the balls:

In the background you can see the PVC pipes that were about to be converted to sticks.

Without much trouble, we managed to put together our game of Kerplunk!... <& /comp/dsfooter, page=>2, of=>4 &>