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Re: side shooter

the diameter of the wheel is 8.75 in. with a barley less than seven inches clearance for the ball, so very little squish, but we intend to use this heavy metal version as a mold for a very light fiberglass one, which reduce the clearance by about 1/8 in. right now the ball flies very well and floats at the top of its arc, but falls a little short. this is the first day making it fire so we don’t have any measurements yet, just having fun, but i will post data after we have tweaked it to work well.