Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #13836
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Jim Cook" beamboter@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 20:52:43 PDT
Subject: Re: efficient launcher?
Well I know I’m a little behind with my e-mail but I have two good Ideas.
1. The cheap easy one shot method…Take a partially inflated balloon. Plug
the opening with your grapple. Now either have a tension string attached to
a motor or use nitinol to compress the balloon and pop out goes your
grapple.
2. The better method…Take a small toy dart gun. Place a tension string on
both the cocking handle and the trigger…rig the retriever to pull your dart
into the gun…cock the spring and fire the trigger.
Sincerely,
Jim Cook
beamboter@hotmail.com
http://www.geocities.com/boter_99
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