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Spring Powered WBL?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 4:02 pm
by RacerSoaker445
I have been thinking about this for quite some time and I think it is long overdue for a test build. Any way I could go about doing this? It doesn't need long range (within 50-70 feet is fine.), but it needs to be portable.

It is meant to be a personal WBL that requires only loading and pulling the spring back and locking it. When you unlock it, it fires.

I had drew up some plans but I did not scan them in. Maybe I'll redo it in Photoshop.

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 10:02 pm
by SSCBen
I don't think that a spring powered water balloon launcher would be a good idea. I doubt that you would be able to get much power out of one, even enough power to launch a water balloon 30 feet. My suggestion would be to use small water balloon launcher designs such as the Douchenator if you want something that would be smaller.

If anyone was wondering, I filtered WB-L into water balloon launcher to aid in search engines. Nothing else. ;)

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 10:36 pm
by LIGHT ANNIHILATOR
I introduced the same idea on Soakermedia and I found out if would be to complicated to work. The result's would also be bad because the max range would be no better than 40ft.

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 2:20 am
by RacerSoaker445
My suggestion would be to use small water balloon launcher designs such as the Douchenator if you want something that would be smaller.
But the thing is, I can't reload it and pump it fast. That is what I want. Something where I don't need to pump it.

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 3:42 am
by m15399
You'd probably be better off just throwing it. You can't get ranges above throwing range with spring power very easily.

Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:00 pm
by wetmonkey442
It takes 15 seconds to pressurize a Douchenator (or similiar) style WBL to get enough power to punch and water balloon 50 or 60 feet. If you want it to be faster than that, I would just manually throw it, or use a lacrosse stick.

Wow, haven't posted here in awhile.