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Re: What wheel to use for the flywheel

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Originally Posted by s_forbes View Post
I really want to see slow motion footage of a ball leaving a shooter that has a soft rubber wheel. I'd guess (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fps6S03aWyE) that at the speed the shooter wheel spins at, there is enough centripetal force pulling outward on the wheel that it acts like a hard rubber wheel rather than a soft one.
The flywheel has to grab the fuel consistently and bring it into the shooting mechanism, the colsons slip a lot before actually taking the fuel into the shooting mechanism, resulting in inconsistent velocity and distance.

YMMV, just some results from our tests.
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