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Re: Pnuematic missles or other sources of missle propulsion
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Date: 
Sat, 17 Apr 1999 04:33:57 GMT
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"Mike Poindexter" <lego@poindexter.cc> writes:
> 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 vailable
> 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...

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:
http://chuh.org/Students/Bram-Lambrecht/LEGO/legomodl.htm
Choose 'Space' from the left, the choose the 'Interstellar Battleship'.
From there, go to the 'Space Cannon'.
Hope that helps!
--Bram


Bram Lambrecht           / o   o \           BramL@juno.com
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  Missle launching ideas (was: Pnuematic missles or other sources of missle propulsion
 
Thanks Bram and Mike for the ideas, I tried these ideas and got reasonable results using the larger shock absorber piece that comes with the black supercar. But still a little lacking for launching a missle made out of two round 1x1 and one round (...) (27 years ago, 19-Apr-99, to lugnet.build)

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  Re: Pnuematic missles or other sources of missle propulsion
 
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 (...) (27 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.build)

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