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Re: gravity loader nesting problem

We are also doing a gravity feeder. We had the same issue and gave more space between our feeding wheels and the frisbee and also added a piece of plexiglass.

After testing it works like a charm.
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Re: gravity loader nesting problem

We're still working on our shooter, but seeing other peoples' problems with jamming, we're going for an angled hopper with a cam on a servo to allow only one disc through at a time.
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Re: gravity loader nesting problem

We're using a gravity feed that slides into a 5-gallon bucket and is actuated into the shooter by a pneumatic cylinder. Almost as simple as it can get. We ran into jamming the night we put our full-court shooter wheel on (lots of vibration), but tightening up the mount and adding a section of metal tap measure (as a finger to hold the disks from vibrating into the shooter) seems to have fixed the issue. We may also slope the hopper slightly towards the pneumatic actuator if needed.
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