My second little coilgun.

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:25 am

Ok, remind me. What the hell does it do? It looks cool though in the pic

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:31 am

anotherperson wrote:It shoots a little bit of metal (In this case a cut paperclip) without physically touching it. The magnetic field in the coil forces the metal out. However, the paperclip shooting is unspectacular relative to the nice spark.

Darn, I was hoping the projectile would do some damage, at least theres a big spark to make up for it. How fast does the paperclip go?

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:34 am

anotherperson wrote:Heh... nah, the paperclip's pretty pathetic. As for it's speed, somewhere between 10 to 20 m/s as an estimate (I suck at estimates) but it has very little intertia.

How far does it go? Have you tested other projectiles?

Post by **Triton** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:02 pm

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