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Re: Pnuematic missles or other sources of missle propulsion
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Fri, 16 Apr 1999 23:46:03 GMT
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How about this:
1) Get 2spring loaded shock absorbers
2) Make tubes around the shock absorbers with your projectiles inside the tubes
3) Attach a girder to the shocks with holes on the sides still available
4) Run an axle through the MF and the middle of your shocks. Attach it to a
girder as wide as your other one. Put axles sticking up from it on both
sides. These axles will hold the girder attached to the shocks in the
squeezed position.
5) Load the tubes.
6) Push the axle and it should free the shocks and shoot the missiles...
Sorry for no graphics, but my ASCII art is not too good.
Let me know if this works,
Mike
In lugnet.build, Ben Fleskes writes:
> Has anyone had any success building pnumatic powered missles out of lego.
> Given that the air tubing doesn't provide enough air flow does the following
> idea sound feasible.
>
> Pump air into a hollow air chamber made entirely out of bricks. A 1x1
> cross-section outlet is available, sealed with a gate valve, again made with
> lego. Load a 'missle' in the outlet, pump up the chamber full of air, open • the
> gate valve and 'missles away'. Sound feasible? granted the air chamber would
> leak a little bit, but it may not be possible to get an effective launch since
> the air pressure would be limited.
>
> I'm trying to fit my Millennium Falcon model with concussion missle launchers
> in the front and looking for good ways to make it fire. Some time ago, on • rtl,
> I read about some one that used two large technic motorcycle tires spinning at
> a very high speed to launch 1x8 bricks accross the room. I tried it with
> smaller wheels, but the performance is lacking.
>
> Any suggestions are welcome.
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| (...) Sounds sort of like the mechanism I've used to make launcing torpedoes on a submarine I "LDrew", which was based on the "space cannon" from my website: (URL) 'Space' from the left, the choose the 'Interstellar Battleship'. From there, go to (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-99, to lugnet.build)
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| Has anyone had any success building pnumatic powered missles out of lego. Given that the air tubing doesn't provide enough air flow does the following idea sound feasible. Pump air into a hollow air chamber made entirely out of bricks. A 1x1 (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.build)
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