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Re: pic: Latest on wood-coast chassis

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Originally Posted by RMS11 View Post
haha, thats really cool. Are the noodles fed by pnumatics? yall will sure be ready for a pool noodle game this year
Pneumatics were not powerful enough and we found that the time it took to regain the compressed air that was lost was not fast enough. There are wheels midway up on the barrel that provide the propulsion. The pneumatics just provide the trigger to push the noodles forward into the spinning wheels.
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