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Originally Posted by Jibri Wright
There are ways to use pistons you have and sort of 'trick physics' to get them to extend faster. If you had two pistons that were somehow connected so that one side was facing one way and another side was facing the other, you could get the pistons to extend or retract at the same time and therefore theoretically get twice the retraction or extension speed from two pistons than from one. It was an idea I got from 1986 last year and our team probably won't be doing this, but I would love to see a prototype of this  |
I don't believe that Titanium did that for speed, I believe it was done so they could have more than 2 positions for their shots to be angled at...The problem with connecting them in the way you envision is that I don't see a method to secure the cylinders in the middle in any particular way. You would have to find a method to securely mount the rod to one end, and the other rod for the "punch" as well as have the bulk of the system moving.