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Re: Locking Mechanism for Catapult?

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Originally Posted by josmee443 View Post
Could you possibly describe how your team's gate latch works?
Sure! So our team purchased a gate latch similar to this:
http://www.menards.com/main/tools-ha...218-c-9694.htm
And what we have, is we attach the "peg" or whatever you want to call the piece that goes into the actual latch is mounted to our shooter. We attached a pneumatic cylinder onto the actual latch, so that when the cylinder is extended, the latch is closed, and once we retract it, it pulls back the latch, releasing the shooter. We also have a limit switch making sure that we don't winch the shooter down to much.
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