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Re: non-pneumatic "kicking" mechanism

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Originally Posted by Matt382 View Post
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.
Guess what? Spearguns and slingshots use "surgical" (latex) tubing.

"Surgical" (latex) tubing is ideal for these applications.


speargun and slingshot tubing


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