pic: Team 4334 presents Murdock

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by joelg236

Our shooter uses a pneumatic piston to fire. It's two piston movements per shot. That plus our gear shifters and landing gear makes for some serious air requirements. It's our first year with pneumatics and we found ourselves facing a lot of air leaks, and having 12 tanks can sometimes fix that. It mostly came down to the piston taking a lot of air though. We almost went up to 16 tanks with a different bimba piston.

And we really wanted to be able to use an on-board or off-board compressor.

Do you have a picture of this mechanism? I'm sure you could do something with a smaller piston, eliminating the need for so many airtanks AND an onboard compressor...