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Re: Reducing Friction in Shooter

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Originally Posted by mott View Post
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.
The main difference is you anchor it to the frame rather than the catapult arm. This allows you use one set of spring force to overcome the intertia of the shooting arm, and another set of spring force to overcome the intertia of the winch being wound back.

All in all, this is fairly useless unless you can move to a larger winch spool diameter, 1/2" is not enough you should go to at least 1", ideally 2"
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