464 Better than GreatScotts Coil Gun? A true story, how-to not do it @AndreasSpiess
464 Better than GreatScotts Coil Gun? A true story, how-to not do it  @AndreasSpiess
Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
This is the last re-run of a video (from 2018). In two weeks, I will be back with a new video.

I should have been warned: Some viewers on our summer project were against a gun on the tank. But I did not listen. This video shows what happened and how I was punished.

In Switzerland, every adult man is in the army and has his weapon at home. Maybe this is the physiological reason for my choice. I am not a psychologist; I am an engineer. So let's start with the story about How-to build a rail gun or a coil gun. Or how to not do it...

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