Thread: just a reminder to remove everything expensive and fragile around ball shooters
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Unread 12-01-2006, 15:53
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Re: just a reminder to remove everything expensive and fragile around ball shooters
a mentor was in the next room over and knew what we were doing.

we have regular use the lathe everyday almost, we all know how to use it, and how dangerous it could be.

i don't see why it's so unbeleivable about attaching the wheels to a lathe. it's simular to what we would have used motor-wise the only difference would be we would

we were testing to see if 1400 rpm was enough, the one wheel didn't get the wheel too far, however once we added the second wheel it got much more distance and 'channeled' the ball forward.

we should have had a system to put the ball in the same way everytime, if we did the ball wouldn't have hit the side of the wheel and gone sideways.

bottom line is we should have taken better care and moved everything out of the way, and not just everything in front of it. balls can bounce, and just not go where they'rre intended to.