It CAN be done

[JonathanK]

Jerry Hensler may be a good person to ask about this kind of setup

 

[mks]

Jerry Hensler may be a good person to ask about this kind of setup

http://benchrest.com/showthread.php?68535-What-is-an-Unlimited-Rail-Gun-(Photos)/page3

If this is Jerry's current rail, then it appears to have a coil spring return, but still uses sliding contact in the three bearings.

Lots of interesting rails at http://www.bryantcustom.com/galleries/railguns.htm

I like the water jacket on the Otto rail, too. Just hook it up to a constant temperature bath and you've got the temperature variable controlled, at least partly.

Cheers,
Keith

 

[TedH]

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They say the original stealth fighter was not suppose to be able to fly either but it seems to have done a pretty good job at the time.

VERN
That is the silliest thing I have ever heard and if some guy did write that on the internet I can't believe you would quote it!!
Of course it was "suppose to fly" thats why the built it. IF it wasn't suppose to fly they wouldn't have put a test pilot in it. They would have hired a stunt man! They knew it could fly when the built the first one. They just didn't know how well.
Which is about the same as the shooting tripod thing you are talking about. We know a gun can shoot off of it. We just don't know how well.


Hey can you post a link to the video I can't find anything called "Boomer Shoot". I want to look at it. I am sure that the first time you win the nationals with that thing everybody will jump on the ship. You are a shoe in to win. I can't wait to see it. Will you have it ready for the Gulf Coast matches?
Thanks.

 

[Asa Yam]

Hey can you post a link to the video I can't find anything called "Boomer Shoot". I want to look at it.

http://www.boomershoot.org/ is their website. There are two video links on that page, not sure if either one is the one Vern was discussing.

 

[Vern]

TED it was on a show called the shooting gallery on the outdoor channel.
You can go to outdoorchannel.com and look it up from there but all I could find was a trailer.

Ted you should maybe do a little research on the statement I made because it was taken from a documentary and from an interview with one of the engineers on the project.

The context would be the same as now....
based on all of the known ideas attitudes and concepts of design and flight at that time, it had an unacceptable design and in its infancy they were told it would never fly... but it did.