Monthly Archives: February 2011

Electro-Pneumatic Revolver by PVC Arsenal 17 build log

February 20, 2011 – 2:04 pm

Check out this interesting project by PVC Arsenal 17. For those who were wondering, I’m still alive, but I am kept extremely busy with school work. Two grad. classes (one mech. eng., the other applied math), two advanced undergrad. classes (one math, the other mech. eng.), and the senior design course will keep you busy! […]

By btrettel | Posted in Pneumatics | Comments (1)

FANG1 problems and solutions

February 2, 2011 – 11:24 pm

Back in summer 2010 I decided that I should return to the “projectile-pusher” approach I used in FANG1. I gave up on this approach far too easily. FANG1 worked, but was unreliable. When I started planning FANG2 I considered the unreliability to be inherent to the projectile-pusher design and that nothing could be done about […]

By btrettel | Posted in Design, FANG4 | Comments (2)