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Hello, first time poster, huge Nerf enthusiast.
Hoping for some help with a concept, my grasp on electrical engineering is tenuous at best.
I want to turn a Nerf plunger tube into a solenoid, by way of wrapping it in wire, and running a charge through it. I'd machine a free-floating, steel-faced plunger head, to interact with the coil, and attach a weak extension spring to the back half of the plunger head to allow for it to return to normal.
The plunger tube is around 1-inch in diameter. Would a solenoid this size be viable? The hope is for a fast linear action without springs or pressurized air, that uses few moving parts, is compact, and enables a semi-auto/full-auto cycle.
Thoughts? Willing to do the hard yards in machining, just need to know if it's a viable idea at this point.
Thanks in advance!
- Stoph
edit: drew a very crude diagram of what I was thinking, hope it helps!
key: orange part is the coil, green part is the steel face
Hoping for some help with a concept, my grasp on electrical engineering is tenuous at best.
I want to turn a Nerf plunger tube into a solenoid, by way of wrapping it in wire, and running a charge through it. I'd machine a free-floating, steel-faced plunger head, to interact with the coil, and attach a weak extension spring to the back half of the plunger head to allow for it to return to normal.
The plunger tube is around 1-inch in diameter. Would a solenoid this size be viable? The hope is for a fast linear action without springs or pressurized air, that uses few moving parts, is compact, and enables a semi-auto/full-auto cycle.
Thoughts? Willing to do the hard yards in machining, just need to know if it's a viable idea at this point.
Thanks in advance!
- Stoph
edit: drew a very crude diagram of what I was thinking, hope it helps!
key: orange part is the coil, green part is the steel face
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