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Originally Posted by Richard.Varone
For those interested this was actually a prototype from 2008 which was the first thing we tested after kickoff. This is an 8" with a 1 1/2" bore and it shoots the ball about 7ft ish into the air.
If anyone would like more info on it let me know and maybe we can post a vid or something along those lines.
EDIT: DISCLAIMER - This was legal in 2008, we haven't looked into it's legality in 2014.
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I see a potential problem with this device depending on how the system is pneumatically controlled. The cylinder may be considered a second compressor if it restores the air used to push the plunger back into the storage devices when the plunger is re-cocked. In this case, I'm assuming something mechanical is re-cocking the cylinder. A solenoid valve would have exhausted the air to atmosphere in both the forward stroke and reverse stroke.
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