Pneumatic Golf Ball Gun
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 6:16 pm
I'm trying to come up with a great design for a charity here in the US that wishes to use a golf ball gun at their golf course events. I'm not the average joe, and I have abundant access to machines, manual and cnc as well as tooling and such.
The goal is to have a cannon that can launch a ball at it's max settings down a golf course hole 450 to 550 yards.
We'd like to have the gun C02 powered or compressed air. I'm wondering if using a mechanism to compress the pin at the top of a C02 tank would allow for the proper flow / acceleration necessary to propel a golf ball such a distance?
The first photo is pretty much the chamber. You pull the trigger and it opens up the air way letting the air go... propelling the ball. The second photo is the overall design.
Thank you for any input.
My initial design looks as follows: (the chamber parts are not fully imaged.)
The goal is to have a cannon that can launch a ball at it's max settings down a golf course hole 450 to 550 yards.
We'd like to have the gun C02 powered or compressed air. I'm wondering if using a mechanism to compress the pin at the top of a C02 tank would allow for the proper flow / acceleration necessary to propel a golf ball such a distance?
The first photo is pretty much the chamber. You pull the trigger and it opens up the air way letting the air go... propelling the ball. The second photo is the overall design.
Thank you for any input.
My initial design looks as follows: (the chamber parts are not fully imaged.)