Check out this home made gauss gun

[WinkOsmosis]

http://www.zzz.com.ru/index.php?area=issues&action=show_issue&issue_no=182

"Evgenij Vasiljev has created a coilgun handgun. Also known as a gauss gun, a solenoid gun, and closely related to the railgun..."

 

[Spoooon]

I tried that once, sort of. I stripped the end of an ac adapter and attached the wires to a solenoid. Taped the solenoid down, put in the projectile and plugged it in. It didn't work very well because the solenoid was pretty weak.

 

[neutralizer]

So how fast does the projectile go?

 

[Spoooon]

Originally posted by: neutralizer
So how fast does the projectile go?

This coilgun uses cut-up nails as ammo. Yep, nails. Bullets don't come much cheaper than that. It has a solenoid inside it that when powered pulls the bullet through it. This is the basic firing mechanism, it's just magnetic attraction, and is enough to propel the bullet to 33meters per second (74mph or 118kph). The bullet is accelerated very fast, considering the small length of the solenoid is all that is used. Actually not even the whole solenoid length is used.

 

[Shockwave]

So wheres this guys site? I wanna see some of his other projects.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

the address is on the first picture