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Unread 01-02-2010, 18:27
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Re: non-pneumatic "kicking" mechanism

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
You won't get much stronger than surgical tubing, but if you're looking for more repeatability, bungee cord exchanges a little force for more consistency.
Yeah exactly. I guess one of our team members read somewhere on CD about harpoon gun tubing so now one of our mentors plans to get us a few different diameters of the stuff so we can figure out what works best. There are a lot of stretchy materials to use, and surgical tubing is probably not the ideal material.