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"Hail! Hon, nail this rail, but don't impale my pail! Ouch, fail! Your gun's no fun!" |
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I have thought of this before, and suggested it (with tongue somewhat in cheek) to my Hitachi contact at the time. |
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gotta admit I was a bit surprised it wasn't an existing post. |
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+ Is the first anno an accidental haiku? |
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My only reservation is that you need quite a bit of power to launch a nail at speed. A battery probably wouldn't supply enough power to be quicker than using a hammer, though with a capacitor you could make some progress. So it would be tied to a power outlet. Otherwise it sounds pretty good. |
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there used to be a neighbor |
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Actually ... not bad. If you do away with the requirement to nail at a distance, and sort out the loading mechanism, this or a coilgun variant could lead to a simpler, cheaper, more reliable nailgun. |
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Think about it - I assume an electric nailgun as it currently stands converts electrical power into mechanical power to drive an internal hammer of some sort which, in turn, strikes the nail. A coil/railgun nailgun takes out the middleman, and directly electromagnetically accelerates the nail into the timber. Nice. |
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What is it called when a projectile veers about due to random air effects? Hook? Yaw? Pitch? Anyway, I have to think a high velocity nail would be doing all of those. |
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I would love to see a video of a nailgun fired in a proper target range. The shooter could demo a handgun for comparison, then see how well he did with the nailgun. How close do you need the target to even reliably hit it with the nail? |
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The head of the nail (which of course is the tail of the nail) would produce enough drag to keep the nail in a decent enough trajectory comparable to a BB or unrifled pellet gun. So for nail-driving accuracy you're probably looking at 10-15m on a good day. |
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Now, if you could just deploy an orbital version, that'd be handy for erm, uh, gimme a minute here... |
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indeed, as the others have said, there may be something to this. You'd of course need a capacitor to collect energy and release it in one quick burst. |
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// How close do you need the target to even reliably hit it
with the nail? // |
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With a properly warrantee-voided pneumatic nailgun, you
can consistently hit a 10" target out to about 15-18 feet,
but it's clumsy to aim and the ballistics are tricky. Best to
try it with a bench rest.
With an electric nailgun, forget it; 5' at best. Haven't tried
it with a .22 blank nailgun (because I don't own one). |
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//.22 blank nailgun (because I don't own one). |
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The world breathes a collective sigh of relief.. |
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Now, I keep finding rotary versions of railguns in Neil Asher stories, and I think he's missing the point (or maybe I am?). |
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But a rotary nailgun railgun would be useful for nailing things and erm, keeping the mice down. |
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Actually, depending on how that rotary railgun
works, that might actually be plausible. |
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Either a) it cools the rails, which given all the
plasma involved with a barrel that's probably not
evacuated, have probably gotten quite hot if they
haven't gotten or |
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b) it provides a beautifully overcomplicated system
for ejecting the rails and rotating new, undamaged
rails into place. |
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