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Re: pic: Wheeled shirt launcher

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Originally Posted by BetaHelix View Post
Have you tried using mini-cims rather than full CIMs? It would be slightly smaller and the wheels would spin faster.

Also do you know if this would work belt fed or with saboted shirts? (Just hypothetically. )
I plan to get some Mini CIMs in a few weeks and try those out.
I had considered a magazine-like approach to loading shirts, but a revolver-like cylindrical action seemed less prone to jamming and more aesthetically pleasing.

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Originally Posted by Brandon Zalinsky View Post
That t-shirt launcher was a cool little mechanism- the indexing system you designed reminds me of ours, except you used motors and servos instead of pneumatics, which increases simplicity and eliminates the need for two separate power systems.
If you have any images/video/documentation of 1058's device beyond that video, I'd love to see it.

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That's awesome then! Do you have any videos of it shooting?
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Originally Posted by JoshWilson View Post
Nice job, I especially like how you're able to do it with the wheels, and have that work well. Hope you'll post a video and let us see it in action!
Thank you. I don't expect to have videos up within the next 2 weeks on account of midterms unfortunately.
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