pic: Offseason Shooter CAD Project

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell

Looks pretty good. I see the cylinders connected to the back plate, I'm assuming that's for pushing the ball into the shooter wheels? Also what's holding the ball in place in the vertical dimension?

Yea that is what the cylinders do.

As for the ball getting held in the vertical dimension. Currently the way it works is the ball compresses slightly against 2 of the hex shafts. It works in theory but in practice I'm not sure. Luckily those spacers are just 1/2 hex shafts so I could add rollers with 2 bearings and a tube on each side which should be more then enough to keep the ball in place. Worst comes to worse I could make resting points for the ball out of tubing and lexan sheets but I don't think that's necessary.