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Re: side shooter

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Originally Posted by Rick TYler
I was interested in hearing your distance numbers. We tried and gave up on that design because we couldn't get the range we wanted. We hypothesized that a lot of energy was being used in deforming the ball as it went around the curve. It didn't do really badly, just a little worse than a couple of other wheel styles we tried. (And it did better than our belt drive approach which we abandoned mostly for packaging reasons.) Good luck!
Like Korbin says, last night we were just fooling around with this design for the first time. But we were getting distances of about 30 feet easily. We need to measure the exit speed, it might be excessive.

Bill