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Re: Reducing Friction in Shooter

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Originally Posted by Conor Ryan View Post
2) Tie some surgical tubing to "Spring Load" your spool. The idea is that as you wind the winch back, you pull on the surgical tubing more. Spring force is translated to the unraveling of the spool without using the force to catapult the ball.
Isn't this the same as having more spring power on the shooting mechanism itself?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding this suggestion...

This is a reasonable solution if the drawback motor/gearbox has additional pulling capacity over what they are currently using but I assumed not.
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