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| (...) though) Railguns work, basically, by shooting metallic "slugs", via electromagnets, at extremely high speeds. Think of two rails, now imagine that the two rails have electromagnets mounted on them. Now imagine a piece of metal being attracted (...) (24 years ago, 24-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| Neat-o! Mechs with classic vehicle windshields! Yep I like that! Your smaller style Mecha are like a power suit type design, vey cool. Keep em' comming! Your site has always been one of my favorites. Thanks Good luck and good job..... Eric (...) (24 years ago, 24-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| (...) Thanks, I get get it now, I knew it had something to do with electromagnets but didn't know what they did. I wonder if you could make one of these out of lego that actually worked. It might, the bullet would be a magnet, with two magnets at (...) (24 years ago, 24-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
| |  | | How Railguns Actually Work...
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| Arrgh. I guess I better clear this up for everybody now. Allow the classic underachiever to explain... Gauss guns [in general] propell a projectile by electromagnetism. There are two main types: Coil guns and rail guns. Coil guns actually have (...) (24 years ago, 26-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
| |  | | Re: How Railguns Actually Work...
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| (...) big-o snippage, Yup, I get it (for the second time) Thanks -Geordan- (24 years ago, 26-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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