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Thumbs up 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.)
I think the main reason that it works with this design is because the wheels are basically flat, so they can be relatively parallel with the c-channel walls, leaving room for the disk to slide on the base of it. But good point!
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