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Comments on: Student project: Bolt-action coil gun

As a side project, one kid built a six-round, bolt-action, high-powered coil gun. I'm afraid.

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by jameswrussell June 17, 2009 4:21 PM PDT
As a teacher, I have to say that this is the most awesome project ever!!!
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by cs1200 June 17, 2009 11:00 PM PDT
+1 for the Tumwater shout out, though we all know all the cool kids went to Capital.
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by centaur101 June 21, 2009 11:06 PM PDT
This is nothing new. If you go to "www.instructables.com" and type in "Coil gun" you can find out that someone has built not one but two; the first one was a pistol (slightly larger) and the second one was a rifle design.
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