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Old 09-29-2016, 05:23 AM   #6
popgun pete
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Re: The Infinite Engines Dreamair moves from dream to reality

The "nuts and bolts" of the gun are simpler than it looks, but to work properly everything has to be adjusted just right as the top deck wishbone draw length is dictated by the length of the wound spiral tracks on the outer drums which have to wind in synch from side to side. Lengthen the gun and those tracks and drums need to be elongated outwards to match the increased draw length.

Inside the gun another set of cables wind on a single drum inside the pressurized area, the spiral tracks here providing a variable leverage to the corresponding positions on the outer drums. The CVT aspect is to provide variable leverage as the drums wind to modify the load applied as the rate of winding increases or decreases. The speed does vary, but the prime aim is to change the load application profile during the band draw and vary it considerably from the usual loading procedure. Whether the task is made any easier is not the objective, rather it is that it can be done at all by the average spearfisherman who is not built like King Kong.

You really need to digest this analysis to see where the gun is coming from and heading to, however setting up and tuning will be important to making the gun work and producing the desired results on a continuing basis as any stretch and cable untracking will be the cause of lengthy repairs and increased gun downtime.

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