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Re: ball dumpers/throwers types

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Originally Posted by dtengineering View Post
We've had success shooting the balls 6 to 10 feet just by spinning up an old 8" wheel on a lathe and either dropping the orbit ball on it, or compressing the ball between the wheel and a sheet of plywood.
Thanks, Jason, as usual you prototyped our design for us, and found a way to make it work