Rails, Coils and other toys

[arpad]

My net wanderings started from world coilgun arcenal. Impressed I went into wiki and read about coilguns, railguns and even ram accelerators.

I especially liked a trick that caught many amateur railgunners - the projectile should be injected into its rails with some initial speed. Otherwise it will just melt inside.

But the best thing I finally found was this highly sophisticated gauss rifle:


The site "Science Toys You Can Make With Your Kids" is quite good - many things from it can actually be created with kids. Some of them look dangerous, but only for those who doesn't know what kids usually do when you turn your back to them.

My favorite is Film Can Cannon It's a real pity that digital photography will soon make it obsolete :)

Comments

[iz-kustov-ved.livejournal.com]

Nothing really terrible - in my early teens we were making a real guns (everyone used an opportunity to make the barrel at the labour lessons when jur teacher was out).

[arpad.livejournal.com]

Yea, good old times... "магниевые бомбочки" из сплава от колес самолетов.

[iz-kustov-ved.livejournal.com]

Ну там ещё селитра с сахаром... Да много всего было :)

[simonff.livejournal.com]

Оффтоп - кстати, о некорректных обобщениях и источникам по русской военной истории.

http://simonff.livejournal.com/279366.html

[arpad.livejournal.com]

Да, я уже обратил внимание на эту запись.