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Re: Top/bottom roller shooter vs. bottom roller only

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Originally Posted by artdutra04 View Post
The problem is very simple.

With single wheel shooters, the ball has to roll along the hood. When you make the edge of a rolling object move at 1x ft/sec, the object as a whole moves forward at 0.5x ft/sec.

With double wheeled shooters, the ball is just pushed through the two wheels. It doesn't have any backspin and leaves at a maximum velocity of 1x.
OK, that makes more sense - and what I was meant by "interacting" with the hood. Ether's explanation also makes more sense now.

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