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Re: pic: 319's Small Wheeled Shooter

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Originally Posted by CalTran View Post
This, in fact, confirms my hypothesis that a shooter does not need a "middle," and that a disc can easily ride rails. Thank you for the post. (I do wonder if there is a middle underneath the frisbee keeping the "rails" together though. That "middle" is necessary.)
That "middle" is there. We noticed that compressing the discs was actually causing them to bend, meaning they weren't touching anywhere but the outer edges anyway, so we took the middle out. It works just as well as our shooter prototypes with middles.
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