ball dumpers/throwers types

[JohnBoucher]

Originally Posted by dtengineering

We finished building our trailer today... if you hit that big centre post with a fairly flat or downwards trajectory and a bit of backspin... it looks like you should score every time.

We've had success shooting the balls 6 to 10 feet just by spinning up an old 8" wheel on a lathe and either dropping the orbit ball on it, or compressing the ball between the wheel and a sheet of plywood.

So I'm thinking one ball at a time, but reasonably rapid fire, similar to 2006.

Jason

How much does your completed trailer weigh?

[omgapirate]

One of the ideas that we were considering was an active dumping system which is to say instead of relying on gravity to do our dumping we will have a a dumper which can propel the balls into opposing trailers. Also we will be able to control the dump in case the opponent manages to move out of the way. The design includes two barrels which should increase the rate of fire. It's an early desgin concept that still needs fine tuning but we fell we could take it somewhere.