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    Re: Lego Railguns —Ben Olmstead
   (...) No, what he built *is* a railgun. A railgun is just two rails connected to opposite poles of a (usually powerful) current source, with a conductive 'bullet' between them. Hence the name 'railgun'. (This is something that our Physics II prof (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Lego Railguns —Tom Stangl
     But he mentioned nothing about POWERING his - a rubber band does not a railgun make. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Lego Railguns —Will Hess
   (...) He couldn't have used electricity with this configuration as 4.5 v track isn't electrified. He says that the motive power for the ammo was "an elastic built into the muzzle." It IS just a gun that shoots rails. Will (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Lego Railguns —Jasper Janssen
   (...) But a gun that shoots rails _is_ a railgun - but it's defintion 2a, instead of 1. ;) Jasper (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Lego Railguns —Ben Olmstead
    (...) Oops... sorry. I must have missed that part. (And I'm showing my complete lack of knowledge of lego train sets, too... Curiousity: are there are lego train sets which _do_ have current-carrying track? I've personally never seen _any_ lego (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 

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