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Re: Boulder inconsistency issue
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Originally Posted by Max Boord View Post
Thats what 4592 is running. we found 2 inches of compression was enough to shoot high goals from the low bar although I would not be surprised if 3-4 inches of compression would be more ideal. We currently run 3 4x7/8 colson wheels per side at 3370 RPM for most ranges. Also, the mechanism pushing the ball into the shooter wheels had a large effect on accuracy. Switching from pushing the ball by hand to a pneumatic indexer altered our RPM by about 200 to get the same shot.
Do you have a picture?
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