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Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence
Your shooter looks amazing! Would you mind explaining it in further detail? How can you shoot so rapidly? What kind of motor/gearbox setups are you using? How much squeeze do you put on the frisbee? How much room is in between your wheels?
This looks like an awesome design. I can't wait to see 3753 in action this year. Keep up the good work!
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Thanks! I believe there are ~10.25" between the wheels and a piece of skateboard grip tape backed by two stacked pieces of 1" aluminum square tubing. HOWEVER, .75" isn't the true amount of compression of the disk, because the wheels are Andy Mark pneumatics with a low amount of pressure in them (~7-10 PSI), so the wheels themselves compress quite a bit, giving us a large area of contact between each wheel and the disk. The wheels are roughly 1.5" apart from each other. There is an arm attached to a window motor that pushes the disks from the hopper, a 5 gallon home depot bucket, to the shooter itself. the arm is made from a piece of 1" aluminum angle with one side cut in half so that it only pushes one disk at a time.