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Originally Posted by gorrilla
my team is working on our kicker design, we are using a 5" stroke-9/16" bore(I think) piston, mounted to the bottom of our hinged plate(which is hinged at the top, so we get the most leverage) we get about 20" hight and about 5ft of distance in the air. this is enough to kick the ball over the bump from about 4ft away, but we need it to go further and higher, we could use a bigger piston but we dont really have the space. how could we make it kick farther?(I've thought about surgical tubing and springs already, but i was wondering if there was any other way?)
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Double your bore and connect at 1/2 way up the swing arc (not at bottom).
Four times more force plus faster pressure build up will reach higher much higher velocity before kicker contacts ball.
-RRLedford