Know how to build a railgun?

Question

Any of you brilliant engineers want to build me a railgun or coil gun? I'll pay you a hafty fee! [e-mail]

Whats easier to make, a coilgun or railgun?

Answer 1

Hehehe. At a quick guess, that'd be around 400 to 500 hours of engineering (specification, design, drawings, parts lists, control software, documentation, etc.) at $125/hr (my usual rate ☺) plus about $20K to $30K for machine shop work, and about $25K to $50K for electronic parts, etc. About $95,000 to $142,500 (depending on a lot of things such as what type of projectile, muzzle energy, rate of fire, etc. etc.)

Is that within your range? If so, let's talk.

Doug

Answer 2

Don't try making a coilgun, they aren't very successful and require a lot more switching complexity.

A railgun is relatively low tech, but it does require some VERY beefy switching hardware, capacitors, and inductors. Check out this guy's website to see what he did to make a plasma armature railgun.

If you want to build a REAL railgun come work with us at the Institute for Advanced Technology (see second link).

Don't buy a railgun from someone new to railguns like ol' Doug above. There are only about 100 people in the railgun community in the whole world that can design one that doesn't fail spectacularly.

Answer 3

you can find designs on the web. I built a single stage coil gun using a camera flash circuit as a power source. And b.b.s as projectile's. Got bored after that though :)

Answer 4

A rail gun. like the Germans utilized in WWII to hit Sevastopol? there is in all threat a clause that asserts you won't be in a position to manufacture artillery of a definite high quality until eventually you're approved to achieve this. criminal has no concept which you truly pick sturdy nickel slugs to fireside the weapon. Nor do they care. The weapon has ability to do harm- it truly is why they seized and disassembled. you're able to although, be entitled to repayment. it truly is that in case you are not getting charged with weapons manufacture.

Answer 5

look up gauss rifles, its pretty much the same thing... but it uses magnets and stored potental energy, you will prolly need a ruler, some tape, magnets and steel ball berrings...

i shot a small ball bering like 15 feet with it...