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Re: The Better Tosser
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Date: 
Sat, 17 Sep 2005 21:17:51 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Brian Davis wrote:

   Wonderful! I can't wait to see the pictures

I'll send you some. If you can get a shooter to shoot inside the hailfire wheel,
all you need is Darth vader's cape (the really big one) to catch the balls. Just
drape it behind the wheel, and it stops the balls.

I dropped it yesterday, and now it only has 75% accuracy. But now, after I
rebuilt it. shoots ~7.5 feet. I can lay down with the shooter at my feet and it
shoots over my head with room to spare.

And yes, it can shoot minifigs. After all, that is the most important part,
right?



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  Re: The Better Tosser
 
(...) Between burning out two motors on a prototype and having the tire in my pirate ship become bald by the end of BrickFest, I think I'm done building GBC shooting mechanisms. But they're so much fun . . . I wonder if my prototype (which is still (...) (19 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)

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(...) Wonderful! I can't wait to see the pictures (and, maybe this will get my butt moving on buildingh my own shooter module). One nice thing about shooters... that "input opposite the output" constraint ends up being not much of a constraint at (...) (19 years ago, 16-Sep-05, to lugnet.technic)

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