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Old 11-26-2016, 05:24 PM   #2
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Re: Alemanni Demultiplied Rollerguns

Finding space on the gun to mount the slack band length and yet still have the required wishbone travel to propel the shaft the full length of the gun's shaft guide track is often a problem. Here is a "wiggler system" cable gun that did the same thing as wrapping bands from the top to the bottom deck using large pulleys, however the "wiggler band battery" preserved the wishbone travel stroke without any "hoist" or "block and tackle" mobile sub-pulleys. The prospect of the "wiggler band battery" rollers gobbling up more energy than it was intended to add ensured that the gun was never built!

For those with long memories the "wiggler" was part of a SDI high energy beam, anti-ICBM weapon, but there any similarity ends.
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