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Re: pic: Wheeled shirt launcher

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Originally Posted by asid61 View Post
I'm not sure how well wheels would interact with the shirts. One would have to make sure that the shirt doesn't get torn up or unroll while shooting.
What if you used a can of some sort to hold the t-shirt in while going through the wheels, but gets hardstopped before it can leave the cannon? That way the t-shirt gets acceleration but the shirts are not damaged.
Love the use of 2 stages btw, that seems like it would be useful to get longer distances.
My thoughts exactly. At first glance I actually thought that the casing for the shirt was propelled by the first set of wheels, then stopped before contacting the second set, wherein the shirt gets ejected from the casing by momentum and taken by the second wheel set to be shot. Now I realize that the shirt gets propelled all on its own. I wonder how tight of a roll the shirt needs to get any meaningful compression from the wheels?
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