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Re: Winding Back a Kicker Lever

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Originally Posted by Spirator View Post
3132 here,

We were thinking of using a kicker design with elastics providing most of the power and a motor to wind the lever back. We're not quite sure how much space, power and whether the motor would be able to wind back in time for the next kick.

Can anyone shed light on the situation?
1625 had an interesting design in 2008 that did something like that. Pictures are in CD-Media.
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