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Posted: **Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:09 pm**

i want to make a sabot that breaks away in the air to realease a dart. paint designs would be appreciated.

Posted: **Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:22 pm**

a potato cut into four peaces? thats something that i thought of off the top of my head.

Posted: **Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:52 pm**

LOL I have had this on my site for AGES.
http://www.freewebtown.com/flyingsloths/arrowsabot.htm

Posted: **Fri Jul 20, 2007 5:17 am**

Maybe this will help you to get started.

Posted: **Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:58 am**

as per lattu's suggestion, you should take a length of barrel material and some of that expanding foam stuff to cast a foam tube that's the same inner diameter as your barrel (or use a sharpened piece of barrel tube to cut the sabot from an existing piece of foam insulation sheet) - once you have this, cut it up as required to fit your projectile.

Look up APDS and APFSDS on google images to give you some ideas on how exactly to cut your sabot into segments.

Posted: **Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:42 am**

ill definetelt try that. to bad ii have no camera right now. im buying one soon. should i post some pics?

Posted: **Fri Jul 20, 2007 12:15 pm**

I saw this
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Posted: **Fri Jul 20, 2007 5:29 pm**

Wikipedia has some good used designs for Sabots. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabot I tried to make one like that by drilling a dowel, cutting it in half, and tying two ends together. It doesn't open fast enough at short range though (like 30 feet) I'll try to post some pics soon as well as further results...

Posted: **Sat Jul 21, 2007 5:18 pm**

Well I've been tinkering around with ideas for my combustion cannon, and so far I have this... Its just a plaster of paris sabot and steel rod... The plaster is still a tad bit heavier than I'd like to see, so I'm going to try a Pykrete type mixture with the plaster by adding either styrofoam or sawdust. The steel rod will of course be sharpened to a point on my final product when I go to test it...

Posted: **Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:27 pm**

Plaster eh? I gotta try that? Do you mold it like ice?

Posted: **Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:53 pm**

yea, I did it the same as ice. I figured, ya it would be a tad more expensive, but it sets in a fraction of the time and its not nearly as heavy by itself, then you can add foam to make it lighter...

Posted: **Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:41 am**

looks good, why don't you try molding it out of liquid expanding foam?

Posted: **Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:31 am**

Thats a pretty good idea, I'll haveta give that one a shot. I think I might try that tomorrow. When I get something, I'll post some results.

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anyone have any ideas for a breakaway sabot?

anyone have any ideas for a breakaway sabot?