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Re: Using an air cannon to launch the balls - Arial Assist

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Originally Posted by wireties View Post
The nylon bag around the ball will make sealing against your air cannon aperture quite difficult. Personally I would not try it.
Do you mean that if ball is a tight not a enough fit in the canon bore, then when you apply air pressure to launch it, the ball will not be deformed enough to keep a good seal, or perhaps the pressure may deform ball too much and make it start to act like a brake?

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