High Powered Gauss Gun Firing a Nail (part 1)

This gauss gun uses .75" neodymium cube magnets in 8 stages. The large size of the magnets makes this gun fairly powerful. (It can drive a nail through 1 side of a soda can.) WATCH PART 2!!

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• Gauss
• gun
• rifle
• rail
• railgun
• magnetic
• projectile
• magnet
• neodymium
• firing
• shoot

[grimelab]

TO SEE THE 2ND PART, click the link in the video!

[grimelab]

I actually found rubber-coated magnets that transfer the kinetic energy much better, and also don't break once you get above ~15 stages.

[ArmadaWraith]

how do the ball bearings get from one side of the magnet to the others?

[grimelab]

The magnet pulls the bearing from the left, and kicks off the 2nd bearing on the right. With each stage, the bearings gain more and more momentum.

[CrashPlague]

lol, I saw the nail hanging there off the steel ball on the end, and I was like, This isn't gonna end too good......

lol, it would be a good idea if you could give the projectile some sort of direction (with a pseudo barrel perhaps?)

Sigh, why I am giving all those kids out there reading this ideas?

[grimelab]

Yeah. I experimented with that, but the nail has no spin so it basically tumbles. A fun modification is to stick about 10 smaller nails in place of a single large nail. They scatter like a shotgun.

[PrimoVids]

Yeah, it is. "Gauss" means the attraction between magnets. You, sir, have played too much fallout or STALKER.

[UltraBibendum]

You'll shoot your eye out, kid.

[haloman123123]

@dennismeukens fail

[dennismeukens]

@grimelab doesn't the rubber absorb some of the energy,?

[Me102288]

@CrashPlague cuz the cant possibly get past 10 feet per second? lol get worried when they start making a coil type magnetic accelerator.. :-) The navy got one that fire a projectile through 4 feet of concrete.. lol be afraid they don't point it our way

[PixieStixxandAdderal]

@Geccola They can make some crazy shit happen, but sadly the MAN hasn't invested in this kind of thing. YET. I think.

[tails2fan]

EAR RAPE!

[torchic122]

What the hell just happened?

[wooterz]

What the FUCK was that noise?

[Geccola]

@PrimoVids lol XD so thats what it meant. i was so disappointed by the vids taht said "gauss rifle" or something like that and it shot magnets. i was expecting something like lasers coming out of those guns D:<

[ghillietutorials]

@PrimoVids or red faction