Been thinking

I know it’s odd, but I was thinking.

How about a multi shoot Condor type set up?

I have thought long and hard on how to do that and the current excepted method of firing the thing (ie spring & hammer) has been getting in the way.

How do you get another lead thingy in there with all that motion.

With out all that motion the solution seem more straight forward. Then how to get rid of all that motion.

Here comes the thinking part, do not use a spring and hammer.

Use a electric solenoid. Put it in the tank with the valve seat and open the valve with the motion of the solenoid. That could mean no motion outside the tank, only the mechanism to load the lead thingy.

Then one could use a rotary magazine to hold the lead thingies and the operation would be as follows.

1. Load magazine.
2. Index lead thingy into alignment with bore of barrel.
3. Hit switch (trigger) to power (open valve seat) solenoid.
4. Rotate magazine so another lead thingy is lined up with bore.
5. Repeat until all lead thingies in the magazine are gone.
6. Repeat, etc. etc.

Rotating the magazine is the only thing that would move, no more cocking the hammer, no more hammer bounce, etc.

Since one would use a Capacitor discharge circuit to control the solenoid, then one could change the open time of the solenoid/valve seat to change power output.

As soon as I can figure out a Capacitor discharge circuit the rest would be mainly machining and hand winding a coil for the solenoid.

Comments anyone?