Somebody gave me about a hundred pounds of golf balls. They are just
sitting in a bag out in the back yard.
Since I suck at goll and most other sports it got me to thinking that I
may be able to launch these things in some other way than whacking them
with a 3 wood (which for some reason I have at least 4 of).
So, the question is..
how should I craft a machine to fling these things in a rapid fire
fashion very fast and very far?
Compressed air might work, spinning wheels a la tennis ball practice
machine?
gunpowder is not even an option (too loud).
Any better Ideas?

Compressed air.

I built a gun I use for paintball that uses CO2 at around 800 psi. You could
make that fire very hard if you wanted. And, your not bound by an extension
cord.

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 21:21:12 -0800, (daniel
peterman) wrote:

Somebody gave me about a hundred pounds of golf balls. They are just
sitting in a bag out in the back yard.
Since I suck at goll and most other sports it got me to thinking that I
may be able to launch these things in some other way than whacking them
with a 3 wood (which for some reason I have at least 4 of).
So, the question is..
how should I craft a machine to fling these things in a rapid fire
fashion very fast and very far?
Compressed air might work, spinning wheels a la tennis ball practice
machine?
gunpowder is not even an option (too loud).
Any better Ideas?

Scale up an auto-cocker paintball gun mechanism for a hopper fed
golfball gun. Use compressed air, you'd chew through CO2 bottles at
an insane rate.

-- Bruce --

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On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 21:21:12 -0800, (daniel
peterman) wrote:

Somebody gave me about a hundred pounds of golf balls. They are just
sitting in a bag out in the back yard.
Since I suck at goll and most other sports it got me to thinking that I
may be able to launch these things in some other way than whacking them
with a 3 wood (which for some reason I have at least 4 of).
So, the question is..
how should I craft a machine to fling these things in a rapid fire
fashion very fast and very far?
Compressed air might work, spinning wheels a la tennis ball practice
machine?
gunpowder is not even an option (too loud).
Any better Ideas?


Take a look at one of these--
http://www.bloomautomatic.com/

Look might usefull to me, taming the squirrels robbing
the bird feeder, neighbors cat in the flower bed. Use your
imagination.. Looks to be an afternoon project for a HSM
type. Anyone have a good blank load for a 223?

DE




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On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 21:21:12 -0800, the renowned
(daniel peterman) wrote:

Somebody gave me about a hundred pounds of golf balls. They are just
sitting in a bag out in the back yard.
Since I suck at goll and most other sports it got me to thinking that I
may be able to launch these things in some other way than whacking them
with a 3 wood (which for some reason I have at least 4 of).
So, the question is..
how should I craft a machine to fling these things in a rapid fire
fashion very fast and very far?
Compressed air might work, spinning wheels a la tennis ball practice
machine?
gunpowder is not even an option (too loud).
Any better Ideas?

One pitching machine design uses a rotating arm that picks up balls at
the bottom of the rotation, winds up a big coil spring as it turns,
then the spring releases and the arm flies around, flinging the ball
tangential to the rotation. It can only throw one every few seconds at
normal rate, but it could be sped up and/or multiple arms used.

Another design uses rotating urethane flywheels that contact the outer
skin of the ball.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
--
"it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward"
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Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com

While active military and being bored a loong time ago we used to use
the co2 fire extinguishers to propell nails and bb's. WE eventually
used apiece of pipe and some fittings to propell golf balls. We would
unscrew the horn on the extinguisher, and put the "barrel" on it, aim
it and then just a quick bump down on the extinguishers handle sent a
high pressure charge of CO2 into the barrel and out went the golf
ball. On a decent charge it was able to drive nails through 1/2 inch
plywood, and when we shot gold balls up against a brick wall actually
split some covers on the golf balls......

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 21:21:12 -0800, (daniel
peterman) wrote:
Somebody gave me about a hundred pounds of golf balls. They are just
sitting in a bag out in the back yard.
Since I suck at goll and most other sports it got me to thinking that
I
may be able to launch these things in some other way than whacking
them
with a 3 wood (which for some reason I have at least 4 of).
So, the question is..
how should I craft a machine to fling these things in a rapid fire
fashion very fast and very far?
Compressed air might work, spinning wheels a la tennis ball practice
machine?
gunpowder is not even an option (too loud).
Any better Ideas?

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Take a look at one of these--
http://www.bloomautomatic.com/

Look might usefull to me, taming the squirrels robbing
the bird feeder, neighbors cat in the flower bed. Use
your
imagination.. Looks to be an afternoon project for a HSM
type. Anyone have a good blank load for a 223?

DE

Those long par 5s will be a piece of cake with one of those
on the old FAL.
jd