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Re: Pneumatic powered cannons.

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Originally Posted by NoodleKnight
Are you asking if it will work? If so, yes. You only need enough flow rate to keep a constant pressure difference between both sides of the diaphragm, just don't leave too much space on the fill/trigger end of the diaphragm since there's only so much cfm the little solenoids can release per second (ideally you want to just dump all the air on that one side so that the air in the "firing" side can just dump out).

Hope this helps.

The idea behind using kit solenoids is to dump the trigger pressure so the firing pressure can propel the projectile. My question is whether or not that is possible.

Being the freshman last year I did most of the grunt work. "I want you to cut 40 bars of stainless steel by hand!!!" I was sore after the 5th and I'm glad it was "only" .25" thick. And therefore I didn't have too much experience with the "specialty" jobs.
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