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Railgun Nailgun
help your neighbour with his build projects without having to leave the comfort of your own porch. | |
The Railgun Nailgun can use any standard nail, which do not require special storage facilities and permits. Apparent recoil is very little compared to gunpowder models and field strength is adjustable allowing you to get the best results for the particular task at hand. Tiny plastic or cardboard sabot
disks are recommended for wide-head nail types.
How they work now
http://home.howstuf...ks.com/nail-gun.htm
[BunsenHoneydew, Feb 22 2009]
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"Hail! Hon, nail this rail, but don't impale my pail! Ouch, fail! Your gun's no fun!" |
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I have thought of this before, and suggested it (with tongue somewhat in cheek) to my Hitachi contact at the time. |
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Oh I like it! Add a high-powered Bushnell scope, a laser sight, and a bipod, and you'd be driving nails faster and more accurately than with a hammer, in addition to the convenience of not having to leave your own porch. Here's a 21 Bun Salute, good Baker! |
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Note: I thought from reading it (that is, before I saw the author's name) that this was another BungCo invention. |
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gotta admit I was a bit surprised it wasn't an existing post. |
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Yeha, me too. No offense, this just seems like something that 'Bakers would've thought of long ago. |
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+ Is the first anno an accidental haiku? |
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My only reservation is that you need quite a bit of power to launch a nail at speed. A battery probably wouldn't supply enough power to be quicker than using a hammer, though with a capacitor you could make some progress. So it would be tied to a power outlet. Otherwise it sounds pretty good. |
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//So it would be tied to a power outlet.// |
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Which I happen to have on both my front and back porches. So no downside there! |
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there used to be a neighbor |
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Actually ... not bad. If you do away with the requirement to nail at a distance, and sort out the loading mechanism, this or a coilgun variant could lead to a simpler, cheaper, more reliable nailgun. |
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Think about it - I assume an electric nailgun as it currently stands converts electrical power into mechanical power to drive an internal hammer of some sort which, in turn, strikes the nail. A coil/railgun nailgun takes out the middleman, and directly electromagnetically accelerates the nail into the timber. Nice. |
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What is it called when a projectile veers about due to random air effects? Hook? Yaw? Pitch? Anyway, I have to think a high velocity nail would be doing all of those. |
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I would love to see a video of a nailgun fired in a proper target range. The shooter could demo a handgun for comparison, then see how well he did with the nailgun. How close do you need the target to even reliably hit it with the nail? |
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