Cushioning Your Hard Stop

[IKE]

Originally Posted by nxtmonkeys

What if one has two cables that hold the arm from going any farther? Mine does. how could I cushion that?

I would recommend a rubber bushing for each. There are some other tricks you could do as well. Send me a pic, and I can offer some thoughts.

[Monochron]

We discovered the need for a reinforced stop a while back in testing. We are using a drawer slide to guarantee linear motion for our shooter and, as you might imagine, the draw slide designer did not anticipate hundreds of pounds of force pulling it out.

When we dry fired our shooter the small plastic hardstop built in to the slide shattered into pieces and the end of the slide rocketed off. We had to remove the restraints and replace them with hardened steel bolts right through the outside. Rubber may not be a bad idea to help with the force, but mounting locations are at a bit of premium on that thin slider.