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Offline Shade

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Re: Railgun
Reply #40 on: April 05, 2006, 05:53:31 pm
Heh, yeah, I can see that now. I only had a few lines to go on when I started my post though, and I didn't notice till afterwards that you'd edited a lot more in. I guess the bottom line is that we more or less agree even though we don't really act like it, so I'll consider this settled :) It's nice to discuss this though, I love all kinds of electromagnetic gadgets :)
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Offline S-99

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Re: Railgun
Reply #41 on: April 05, 2006, 06:18:32 pm
No problem.
It's sort of funny in me being stubborn kind of way.
****, yeah i gotta quit using the edit command.
I didn't find using a coilgun too good after i built it, i mean, i didn't have anything better than a car battery to mess with.
It sucked.
So i went back to usual effective pneumatic and combustion potato guns. :D
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Offline Mars

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Re: Railgun
Reply #42 on: April 05, 2006, 06:22:31 pm
Those blue streaks are actually hyper-velocity solanum tuberosums? :eek2:
 

Offline FireCrack

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Re: Railgun
Reply #43 on: April 10, 2006, 04:01:23 pm
To make a proper coilgun you are going to needs some fancy staging devices. Railguns are much simpler conceptualy.
actualy, mabye not.
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Offline Mars

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Re: Railgun
Reply #44 on: April 10, 2006, 04:21:01 pm
Yeah, if you had a 0 friction, superconducting material, that melted at 300,000 K, it would be easy.
 

Offline FireCrack

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Re: Railgun
Reply #45 on: April 11, 2006, 07:45:07 am
What would be easy?
actualy, mabye not.
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Offline Shade

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Re: Railgun
Reply #46 on: April 11, 2006, 09:08:19 am
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Yeah, if you had a 0 friction, superconducting material, that melted at 300,000 K, it would be easy.

Railguns are easy, and require neither superconduction nor high heat resistance. High power railguns that could be used as weapons, though, aren't.
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Offline Mars

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Re: Railgun
Reply #47 on: April 11, 2006, 05:48:18 pm
"that" being a weapons grade railgun.
 

Offline S-99

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Re: Railgun
Reply #48 on: April 11, 2006, 10:33:03 pm
Man, if i had a railgun, i'd want to find some ****ing way to lube the rails or something.
That's a lot of friction on the rails when you shoot something out of the gun at the velocities railguns can reach.
And hopefully when firing the railgun, you got high quality rails that don't become so worn down after the first shot.
I guess you could compare this friction problem to getting it on with a hole in a tree. :lol:
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Offline S-99

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Re: Railgun
Reply #49 on: April 11, 2006, 10:35:34 pm
Of course with things getting worn down by the bullet being accelerated by being slid against two rails until exiting the barrel.
A lot of friction, heat, maybe warping.
And that be my getting it on with the hole in the tree metaphor. :lol:
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